{"id":36800,"date":"2011-07-02T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/insane-war-on-drugs-now-claiming-4-legged-victims-thanks-to-canadian-feds\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T14:37:00","slug":"insane-war-on-drugs-now-claiming-4-legged-victims-thanks-to-canadian-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/insane-war-on-drugs-now-claiming-4-legged-victims-thanks-to-canadian-feds.php","title":{"rendered":"Insane War on Drugs now claiming 4-legged victims thanks to Canadian Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ajNMMxlVN5U\/Tg8uj0bZYgI\/AAAAAAAATzM\/J5HFFxvygZg\/s1600\/bears.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1addc_bears.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>by Clifford F. Thies<\/p><p>In British Columbia, pot has been pretty much decriminalized. This means possession of a small amount is treated like a parking violation, subject only to a fine. But, dealing in the substance is still illegal. Accordingly, the forests of the province abound in marijuana. And, now, marijuana growers have come up with a seeemingly ingeneous method of guarding their plants from interlopers: guard bears.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pyF0G0wPlno\/Tg8uzF4KJ-I\/AAAAAAAATzU\/Qy3_1sgDnxs\/s1600\/British-Columbia.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1addc_British-Columbia.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo\/7954865\/Cannabis-growers-used-bears-as-guards.html\">London Telegraph<\/a> reports that, along with arresting two humans, Canadian police arrested more fourteen guard bears in conjunction with a marijuana bust. The bears, they report, were tame and even docile. But, they will have to be put down because of their familiarity with humans. Also, one raccoon.<\/p><blockquote><p>Detectives raiding the two large cannabis fields in Western Canada were surprised to discover at least 14 tame, and seemingly docile, black bears wandering around the crops. <\/p><p>During the raid earlier this month, police also found a &ldquo;friendly pot belly pig and a little raccoon sleeping on the bed&rdquo;, which tried to climb up an officer&rsquo;s leg. <\/p><p>The drug crops, containing about 2,300 plants, were found near Christina Lake, a remote area east of Vancouver, just a few miles from the American border. <\/p><\/blockquote><p>Thus, the international war on drugs claims yet another victim: guard bears.<\/p><p><em>Photo - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamapop.com\/2010\/08\/shark-week-fools.html\">MamaPop.com<\/a><\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1addc_7828681836623105417-1885309041818199027?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Clifford F. ThiesIn British Columbia, pot has been pretty much decriminalized. This means possession of a small amount is treated like a parking violation, subject only to a fine. But, dealing in the substance is still illegal. Accordingly, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/insane-war-on-drugs-now-claiming-4-legged-victims-thanks-to-canadian-feds.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}