The 25,000 residents of Lice, Turkey, involuntarily got high after police burned over 20 tons of seized cannabis in the town center. For at least five days, people couldn’t leave their windows open and avoided going out for fear of becoming intoxicated and experiencing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and hallucinations. The destroyed cannabis, valued at 10 billion Turkish Lira ($261,433,808) and had been seized during 2023 and 2024. Official say that although the success achieved by authorities in the fight against drugs is important, the manner in which the cannabis was destroyed was incorrect. They emphasized that arranging the bags of cannabis to form the name of the town in burning letters only added insult to injury.
