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Playinghardball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:40 PM
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Was Osama a pothead? Marijuana found growing alongside bin Laden compound
Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

Among the various vegetable crops growing alongside the bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a row of marijuana plants was also discovered by CNN reporter Nic Robertson.

Of course, the answer to that is in no way clear. The plants very well could have been for one of the other individuals who stayed at the compound, or another local entirely. Reports from the scene indicated that as many as three dozen people shared the three-story house, including as many as 23 children.

Some have speculated that the al Qaeda leader may have been using the marijuana as a medicine. If he was indeed on dialysis, as an unnamed U.S. intelligence source told Asiaweek back in 2000, then he could have used marijuana as a painkiller. That story ultimately led to numerous conspiracy theories about bin Laden's death, mostly based on hearsay and speculation, and the claim was ultimately never proven.

Marijuana is not known to have negative effects on the liver or kidneys, but also it is also not known for any particularly positive effects on those organs either.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/04/was-osama-a-pothead-marijuana-found-growing-alongside-bin-laden-compound/
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guardian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:46 PM
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1. Jeff Foxworthy on Muslims

1.You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.
You may be a Muslim
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RZM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:47 PM
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2. Apparently he wasn't paranoid enough n/t
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:49 PM
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3. the raid was actually part of an ever-expanding medical marijuana sweep
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:50 PM
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4. Duzy!
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:58 PM
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5. Sigh. Don'tcha miss the DUzys?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:03 PM
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7. You bet.
:hi:
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Marblehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:00 PM
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6. Could be how he survived so long
with kidney disease.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:11 PM
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8. I think that stuff grows wild pretty much all over Eurasia.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:14 PM
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9. Shoot, there's a bunch of it in my back yard.
woops
nevermind
;-)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:40 PM
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10. It carpeted my great-grandparents' old abandoned KS homestead
way back in 1972......
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:53 PM
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11. Cannabis has been growing wildly in that area for centuries, and I am sure the locals use it.
Edited on Wed May-04-11 05:54 PM by krabigirl
Many strains come from there.
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