Cannabis Freedom Index
← History

Enforcement 🇦🇷 Argentina

Argentine police blame mice for half a tonne of missing marijuana

An audit of a police warehouse in Pilar, north-west of Buenos Aires, found about 540 kg missing from some six tonnes of seized marijuana. A former police commissioner and three subordinates told the court that mice had eaten it. Experts from the University of Buenos Aires, cited by the judge's office, said mice would not take the drug for food and that, if they had, many dead mice would have been found. Eight officers were dismissed.[1][2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Argentina here.

References

  1. Mossel Bay Advertiser (BBC) — Marijuana 'eaten by mice', say Argentina police officers (12 April 2018)archived
  2. Remezcla — Argentine police officers claim mice ate half a ton of missing weed, but a judge isn't buying it (16 April 2018)archived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read.

    ↑↓ to move, ↵ to open.