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DEA warns of stoned rabbits if Utah passes medical marijuana
The Washington Post ^ | March 2, 2015 | Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 03/28/2015 1:05:09 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

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.

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."

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: Issues
KEYWORDS: cannabis; dea; marijuana; pot; potheadbunnies; potheads; utah; wildlife; wod
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1 posted on 03/28/2015 1:05:09 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ExTexasRedhead; ...

Drug-addicted bunny rabbits? Oh, the horror, oh the humanity! It could lead to something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3c


2 posted on 03/28/2015 1:06:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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3 posted on 03/28/2015 1:08:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hmmm...
Similar things happen all the time
such as drunk squirrels


4 posted on 03/28/2015 1:13:23 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: EEGator

“Its but a flesh wound”


5 posted on 03/28/2015 1:13:59 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: cpdiii

Jimmy Carter will never visit there again.


6 posted on 03/28/2015 1:15:54 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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7 posted on 03/28/2015 1:16:49 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: HangnJudge

True story below:

Back in the sixties when I was a long haired, FM listening hippie. Today I am a right wing libertarian, “Go Ted Cruz.”

A friend, not me, put his cat in a bag and filled it full of smoke from some pretty good weed. The first couple of times the cat resisted. Later he would jump into the bag. The cat liked it.


8 posted on 03/28/2015 1:17:28 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Because wild rabbits don’t know how to choose their own food. /s


9 posted on 03/28/2015 1:24:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: HangnJudge

Don’t forget the crackalope.


10 posted on 03/28/2015 1:25:00 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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11 posted on 03/28/2015 1:25:08 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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12 posted on 03/28/2015 1:27:08 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: cpdiii

My sister’s gordon setter did too. She wasn’t too happy about that but he would come around when my friends and I were smoking and want his turn too. He was a pretty goofy dog in the first place.


13 posted on 03/28/2015 1:28:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Why did he seize a retiree’s okra plants?


14 posted on 03/28/2015 1:28:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: HangnJudge

Drunk birds too from eating old fruit.


15 posted on 03/28/2015 1:30:03 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Clintonfatigued

“I deal in science,”

Perhaps Mr. Science should reflect on the fact that the active ingredients in pot are only fat-soluble. Animals eating it won’t get high, unless they make brownies or cannabis butter.

Certainly we’ve all heard tales of the many inebriated animals due to the mass growing in California, right? Right.


16 posted on 03/28/2015 1:30:51 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: Clintonfatigued

The old “March Hare’’, eh?


17 posted on 03/28/2015 1:48:41 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Can you get high from eating rabbits that were high when harvested? LOL


18 posted on 03/28/2015 1:52:22 PM PDT by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Reefer Madness deja vu. THC is also soluble a couple other ways including one that everyone's heard of that makes buildings explode. And I'd bet we won't find Br'er Rabbit chunking his phat buds into a jar full of Everclear--that takes too much time! ;)
19 posted on 03/28/2015 1:58:53 PM PDT by W. (Democrats + their media stooges wanted the US out of Vietnam so the Communists would win!)
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To: PreciousLiberty
The DEA is scared to death because they know Americans are getting tired of the WOD and its effects on our freedom. When we finally end pot prohibition, a lot of DEA careers will be swirling the drain. And to that I say GOOD!
20 posted on 03/28/2015 2:03:38 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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