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Argentinian Police Officers Fired After Blaming Missing Cannabis on Rodents

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[dropcap class=”kp-dropcap”]W[/dropcap]hen Argentinian police authorities were confronted about missing cannabis, their first line of defense was to blame it on mice. After a routine inventory check, a report noted that 1,190 pounds of cannabis had vanished from what was supposed to be a total of 13,228 pounds of the confiscated substance.

Police Commissioner Javier Specia was responsible for signing off on the cannabis inventory report but he neglected to do so before leaving his position in April 2017. He, along with three others, insisted that the missing cannabis was in fact stolen and eaten by mice. Their claim was, unsurprisingly, met with doubt as forensic experts explained that the rodents weren’t likely to mistake cannabis for food. Furthermore, experts reasoned that if such a scenario were to happen, it would have led to many dead mice in or near the facility. “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,”  a spokesperson for Judge Adrián González told The Guardian.

All officers involved in the peculiar scandal have since been released from their positions.

Specia will testify on May 4 in order to assist in determining what really happened to the cannabis that went missing. The court will decided whether or not the missing cannabis was due to “expedience or negligence.”

According to BBC, the 13,228 pounds of cannabis had been stored at a warehouse for the past two years.

Although medical cannabis is legal in Argentina for patients with a prescription from a licensed physician, current Argentinian law forbids the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis for recreational purposes.

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