Sounds Like a Joke

Apparently, some Afghan Taliban fighters are shielding themselves from infra-red surveillance by planting lots of, er, tall marijuana plants, which supposedly absorb heat really well. In fact, the Canadian soldiers who found the field can’t even burn the plants because they’re so water-retentive. And further in fact, the Canadian military chief of staff said the one time they actually burned a few plants, the, er, "ill effects" of being downwind created a bummer.