Marijuana Vanishes In Argentina

Blame Game Eight Argentine police officers are in hot water after sticking to an alibi akin to the “dog ate my homework” excuse. Except in this case, the dog was a pack of rodents – and the homework was a large quantity of marijuana. When more than a half-ton of marijuana mysteriously vanished from a guarded evidence facility in Pilar, Argentina, not far from the capital city of Buenos Aires, the eight officers were dismissed after claiming that mice ate the drugs, the Guardian reported. During an inspection, officials noticed a shortfall from the amount originally registered – more than six tons of cannabis – and questioned former Police Commissioner Javier Specia, who had originally handled the inventory. Testifying before a judge, Specia and three of his subordinates claimed that mice had munched on the drugs, a statement that was rebuked by forensic experts in court. “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 Adrian Gonzalez Charvay. Ingesting marijuana can be toxic to animals since they digest the drug differently from humans, NPR recently reported. With their alibi debunked, the officers face more questioning next month, when the judge will seek to decide whether the missing evidence resulted from “expedience or negligence.”