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DEA warns of stoned rabbits if Utah passes medical marijuana
Washington Post ^ | March 02, 2015 | Christopher Ingraham

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; wod
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To: Hugin
Monty Python Holy Grail photo: Monty Python rabhs.jpg
21 posted on 03/02/2015 1:40:04 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Ken H
"I deal in facts. I deal in science," said special agent Matt Fairbanks...

...immediately prior to launching in to a story which contained nothing but anecdotal evidence...

22 posted on 03/02/2015 1:42:11 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Ken H

Stoned rabbits? As long as they don’t get behind the wheel of a car... Let them alone.


23 posted on 03/02/2015 1:42:26 PM PST by BigEdLB (We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
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To: Ken H

Studies found that squirrels forced to smoke 50 joints a day tended to play with their nuts, rather than store them.


24 posted on 03/02/2015 1:43:02 PM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: Hugin

A CLASSIC bad sci-fi film.


25 posted on 03/02/2015 1:43:17 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Ken H
"One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone."

The marijuana farmer probably had a pet rabbit.

26 posted on 03/02/2015 1:43:59 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Ken H

27 posted on 03/02/2015 1:46:55 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Ken H
Fairbanks spoke of his time eliminating back-country marijuana grows in the Utah mountains, specifically the environmental costs associated with large-scale weed cultivation on public land: "Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion," he said. "The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water, are still unknown."

Mr. Fairbanks is missing the point that if marijuana is legalized, people will be FAR less likely to cultivate it on public land.

If he cares so much about the mountainsides and the forests then it seems to me we would welcome legalization.

28 posted on 03/02/2015 1:48:11 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Ken H

29 posted on 03/02/2015 1:48:13 PM PST by W. (Have you noticed how all left-wing politics are based on voter gullibility?)
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To: Ken H

30 posted on 03/02/2015 1:49:27 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: WayneS

One of the best-worst. I think it might have even taken place in Utah. Or maybe Nevada.


31 posted on 03/02/2015 1:52:12 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: Ken H
"I deal in facts. I deal in science,"

I deal in original intent of enumerated powers.

32 posted on 03/02/2015 1:54:13 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Ken H

Get the Holy hand grenades!


33 posted on 03/02/2015 1:57:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Ken H

Easy hunting is now a problem?


34 posted on 03/02/2015 2:08:59 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Ken H

“I deal in facts. I deal in science,”??

What is more dangerous to the Public:
1. Rabbits eating weed and getting a buzz
2 Public Servants with Guns jacked up on Steroids


35 posted on 03/02/2015 2:16:10 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Wolfie
Always nice to see a government parasite thrashing about in the final death throes of losing his job.

What's Reagan's quote? "The closest thing to eternal life ..."

Wonder how the rock/paper/scissors tournament is going down at the Ebola Czar's office?

36 posted on 03/02/2015 2:20:13 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: discostu

No, obviously they are for it. How about the fact that it will lead the government to expand ten times and be in everyone’s business to a degree that makes the cutrrent situation look like anarchy.


37 posted on 03/02/2015 2:23:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: wbill

Stop making sense. LOL


38 posted on 03/02/2015 2:26:09 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: nickcarraway

Legalization might expand the government’s revenue, but done properly it doesn’t expand the government’s power. Much like the end of Prohibition there are good ways to handle it and bad, we see Washington doing it very badly right now (ironically learning NONE of the lessons from how they badly handled alcohol which they eventually got rid of). Colorado seems to be handling it well, Alaska had such a hard time making it illegally legalization is really a no-op.

We’ll see how it plays out. By I doubt highly it’ll be 10 times worse. I doubt highly it will be noticeably worse in most places.


39 posted on 03/02/2015 2:28:44 PM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: wbill
I got news for 'em.....MJ has been growing wild for thousands and thousands of years

"And we never knew what it was called."

40 posted on 03/02/2015 2:29:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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