TURKISH POLICE ACCIDENTALLY GETS ENTIRE TOWN HIGH

A small town in Turkey was engulfed in the smell of drugs for days after more than 20 tons of cannabis were burned.

Local police officers in the town of Lice torched the confiscated weed that was gathered in the local town and neighbouring towns in 2023 and 2024.

To get rid of it, the officers set fire to the drugs, but it left the 25,000 residents of Lice high.

One resident complained to local media that it’s had a very negative effect on his family.

“The smell of drugs has been enveloping the district for days. We can’t open our windows. Our children got sick, we’re constantly going to the hospital.”

The police officers arranged the bags of weed in letters to spell out the town’s name.

Yahya Oger, chairman of the Yesil Yildiz Association said the police’s actions were “unacceptable” and it “lacked professionalism”.

“This was perhaps done as a preventative measure to deter, but the fact that it was destroyed in the city centre could cause serious discomfort to people due to the smoke of burned hemp.”

Oger suggested that future drug disposals should take place in factories with filtered chimneys.

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