Protecting Lebanese hashish

Amidst the deluge of Afghan poppy farmer stories, which always seem to have an unhappy ending for the impoverished farmers trying to make a living, it's nice to see a new twist on this type of story. This time, it's Lebanese hashish farmers instead of Afghan poppy farmers:

Lebanon's anti-drug squad and the handful of soldiers protecting them had an unpleasant surprise last month when they launched an annual raid on fields of ripe hashish in the northern Bekaa Valley. Rather than standing aside meekly while their hashish was ploughed up as in the past, the farmers this year were determined to protect their lucrative crops. "They shot at us with automatic weapons from nearby woods and houses," Colonel Adel Machmouchi, head of Lebanon's Drug Enforcement Bureau, told TIME. "RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] were exploding above our heads and we had to leave."

This is exactly the type of ingenuity you'd think the Afghans would have picked up on by now.