Posted on 03/02/2015 1:19:28 PM PST by Ken H
Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time.
That's according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel (time stamp 58:00) last week by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"I deal in facts. I deal in science," said special agent Matt Fairbanks, who's been working in the state for a decade. He is member of the "marijuana eradication" team in Utah. Some of his colleagues in Georgia recently achieved notoriety by raiding a retiree's garden and seizing a number of okra plants.
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Fairbanks said that at some illegal marijuana grow sites he saw "rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana. ..." He continued: "One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone.
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Rabbits...naw...no problems
The Elk and some of the other larger mammals could pose a significantly more important threat
This is the best argument they can come up with? Wow, the worm really has turned.
Get munchies - harvest Elk steaks.
There WAS, however, a small-town tempest in a teapot in my hometown when it was discovered growing (wild) in the field behind the police station. :-)
He is an idiot. You have to either smoke or cook marijuana to release the THC. I don’t see rabbits figuring out how to do that.
Linda Ronstadt is much more worried about Stoned Ponies!
Always nice to see a government parasite thrashing about in the final death throes of losing his job.
It WOULD explain the wrong turn at Albequerque! Now we KNOW “what’s up, doc?”
Rabbits. Utah.
Our next door neighbors questioned us about our okra but they did not call the cops.
I think they were disappointed when I gave them some pods.
“Some of his colleagues in Georgia “
Imagine Jimmy Carter facing voracious marijuana-crazed rabbits! He’s not as spry as used to be...
Uh oh...better watch out...they just might grow antlers and go on murderous rampages!!!!! The legend of the weed smoking jackalope! Reefer madness...it’s hare raising!!!!
If you've lost Utah...
You ever try smoking Okra through a glass bong? I hear it aint easy, and gets messy really quick. Even worse when it’s been cooked./
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ‘em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call to
Call Alice
When she was just small
Jack Rabbits are gonna be slower.
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