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Four mountain climbers had to be rescued from England's highest peak after they became "incapable of walking due to cannabis," police say.
The drug-induced predicament caused a three-hour rescue operation Saturday on 3,210-foot Scafell Pike in Cumbria's Lake District.
A police spokesperson posted the following on social media:
"Persons phoning Cumbria police because they are stuck on a mountain, after taking cannabis. Now having to deploy [mountain] rescue, air support and ambulance to rescue them. Words fail us ..."
The four men were safely brought down by Wasdale mountain rescue volunteers at 9:45 p.m., police said.
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