Police Claim That Mice Ate A Whopping Half A Ton Of 'Missing' Weed

After they claimed that mice had eaten half a ton of "missing" weed, eight police officers were fired from a police squad in Argentina.

More than half a ton of weed was missing from a police warehouse in Pilar, Argentina, approximately 50 miles outside of Buenos Aires.

While the eight Argentinian cops said that mice had eaten it, and shockingly mice eat cannabis much more often than one would think, forensic investigators, reported that they've checked out the scene and discovered no evidence that the mice had consumed the missing weed.

The cannabis disappearance was first noticed during an inspection, where it had been in storage for two years. 5,460 kilos were discovered out of the 6,000 kilograms of cannabis, documented and stored there. This means that 540 kilograms of weed were missing. It would certainly take a lot of mice to eat five hundred kilos of cannabis.

Suspiciously, Javier Specia, the city’s former police commissioner, who left his post in April 2017, had then left the inventory for impounded cannabis unsigned and unrecognized.

Emilio Portero, the man who replaced Specia, noticed that the weed was missing and notified authorities who performed an inspection of the warehouse.

The former employee, three of his peers and subordinates all gave the same explanation: mice had eaten the missing 540 kilograms of weed. However, forensic experts found no evidence of mice being in the facility, along with the apparent fact that it'd take an extremely unusual number of mice to accomplish such a challenge.

“Buenos Aires University experts have explained that mice wouldn’t mistake the drug for food and that if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse,” said a spokesperson for judge Adrián González Charvay.

However, they might have put a little bit of effort into concocting the particular alibi for the missing tree if mice, in fact, didn’t eat it: mice do this all the time.

The fact is, mice, as well as rats, are equipped with long, strong whiskers, very similar to those of a feline, capable of determining to a high degree of accuracy how much space they have to squeeze themselves through a door or something like that.

To stay alive, rats, for instance, require a whopping third of their body weight in consumption per day.

UP there with "the dog ate my homework"! "The mice ate the weed! So help me GOD - the MICE at the weed!" - dan mac #Wow #STONED : Fired cops claim mice ate marijuana that was held as evidence. https://t.co/Ftld592D4X

— 93.9 The River (@939theriver) April 16, 2018

And guess what? On a slightly unrelated note, various studies have inadvertently proven that cannabis is surprisingly good for mice. A 2014 study about cannabidiol demonstrated that weed protected the cognitive function of mice that were afflicted with a characteristic symptom of Alzheimer’s disease and brain trauma: tau buildup.

A 2017 study published in the popular journal Nature showed that even low doses of THC administered to rats preserved the learning ability and retentive memory of mice while they grow older, in stark contrast to what most people think about cannabis.

So to the Argentina authorities who might prosecute these people for the missing cannabis: why does it even matter if they took it? It matters that you stole it from people and it is a plant, but can you blame anyone for stealing from a thief?

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