“Of course, Mr. President, you probably already know all this stuff from your ‘Lindsay Lohan’ days…”
It looks as though the U.S. War or Drugs will continue for a bit longer. U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald Colburn, in answering a question by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), used hyperbole in the name of job security by equating weed with terrorism:
“There were nearly a million people that weren’t successful in crossing both borders this year. And speaking of weapons of mass effect, 2 million pounds of marijuana is a weapon of mass effect that we prevented from happening this year along the border.”
This is a bit of a stretch if you use the definition of “weapon of mass effect” as it appears in the CSAT Top-Screen User Manual [PDF], a chemical security manual produced by the Department of Homeland Security, which defines it as:
…an industrial gas that can be used as a weapon without reacting with other chemicals to create a third material.
One reply on “U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Refers to Marijuana as “Weapon of Mass Effect””
A weapon? come on, it is a naturally growing plant that has killed ZERO but alcohol and tobacco which kill people daily is freely allowed? Sure, we have it all in check.