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."
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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
Hmmm...
Similar things happen all the time
such as drunk squirrels
“Its but a flesh wound”
Jimmy Carter will never visit there again.
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.
Because wild rabbits don’t know how to choose their own food. /s
Don’t forget the crackalope.
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.
Why did he seize a retiree’s okra plants?
Drunk birds too from eating old fruit.
“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.
The old “March Hare’’, eh?
Can you get high from eating rabbits that were high when harvested? LOL
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