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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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To: PreciousLiberty

Exactly right... a rabbit or person could eat cannabis all day long and not get high. THCa is converted to THC when it is heated, that is why cannabis is smoked (burned) or cooked (ie brownies). THCa drops a few molecules and is convert to THC which is psychoactive.

How is it there are such morons and liars in the DEA?


21 posted on 03/28/2015 2:03:46 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

22 posted on 03/28/2015 2:07:32 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
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23 posted on 03/28/2015 2:18:53 PM PDT by MtnMan101
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm. Stoned rabbits is some mighty fine eatin!


24 posted on 03/28/2015 2:20:44 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: EEGator

Yes! the killer rabbit strikes!


25 posted on 03/28/2015 2:20:56 PM PDT by locountry1dr (Political correctness kills)
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To: cpdiii; TigersEye

One of my friends in college had a typical Chihuahua that yapped and bit just for kicks. Sometimes when her parents were gone, she’d invite a few of us to drink and smoke at her house-she would give the yappy dog a couple of power hits, and he would shut up and just zone out-he never seemed to mind at all...


26 posted on 03/28/2015 2:28:50 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: free_life
Exactly right... a rabbit or person could eat cannabis all day long and not get high. THCa is converted to THC when it is heated, that is why cannabis is smoked (burned) or cooked (ie brownies).

That adds up. Thanks for the post!

27 posted on 03/28/2015 2:34:15 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: free_life
How is it there are such morons and liars in the DEA?

'Back off, man. He's a scientist.'

28 posted on 03/28/2015 3:03:16 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: beef
When we finally end pot prohibition, a lot of DEA careers will be swirling the drain.

Pot is just the beginning. Before it's over, DEA careers won't be the only thing swirling the drain.

29 posted on 03/28/2015 3:08:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: locountry1dr

Time for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!


30 posted on 03/28/2015 3:18:59 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: cpdiii

Same thing happened with me in those days. A cat came wandering into our apartment while we were toking. Someone blew pot smoke into a paper bag and stuck the struggling cat’s head into the bag. The cat bolted and ran out the open door of the apartment. A few minutes later, the cat came back in and tried to stick its head back into the sack.


31 posted on 03/28/2015 4:39:18 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: Clintonfatigued

“The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water, are still unknown.”

So let’s make it illegal, anyway.


32 posted on 03/28/2015 4:40:37 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: Clintonfatigued

“I deal in facts. I deal in science,” said special agent Matt Fairbanks

Whada maroon.

1. The leaves & stems which a rabbit or other animal might eat are about as intoxicating as the sweat on a beer bottle.

2. The intoxicating flowers of the plant are sticky & pungent, repelling most birds & animals from the enclosed seeds, a natural deterrent like thorns.

3. The flowers are intoxicating only in the last month of growth, ending when seeds are produced & the plant dies. Naturally, animals want the seeds, but this is when the plant is most sticky & stinky. Yet even brushing by a young plant will stink you up good, something a predator can smell a mile away.

If the animals don’t know this, they soon will, just as they know of many other plants to avoid. The woods are full of poisonous plants, yet the rabbits & deer thrive.

Every summer “volunteer” marijuana pops up all over the USA. Arkansas ditch weed is famous - they say you can pick it on the side of the road, but it wont get you high. So, US wildlife is probably very familiar with the plant.

This DEA agent, like all the rest, is just protecting his livelihood by spouting nonsense. If the WOD ever ends he will become a meat, light bulb, & outdoor grill confiscator.


33 posted on 03/28/2015 5:01:19 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Texan5
The first time was involuntary but after that my sis's dog would follow the bowl around the room, nose snif snif sniffing and an expectant look on his face hoping we'd share some more.

My dog care nothing for it but she did have quite a taste for beer.

34 posted on 03/28/2015 9:01:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Might give new meaning to the term “dumb bunny”...


35 posted on 03/29/2015 3:31:45 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Mister Da
If the WOD ever ends he will become a meat, light bulb, & outdoor grill confiscator.

LOL!

36 posted on 03/29/2015 5:53:46 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

So glad we are focusing on the important issues.


37 posted on 04/08/2015 11:33:00 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ...

The movie “Night of the Lepus” has one of my favorite classic lines ever. “Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way.”


38 posted on 04/08/2015 11:56:51 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Someone beat you to it. Only with mice.

Full Disclosure: I actually think this was a pretty good use of grant money...

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/mouse/


39 posted on 07/16/2015 10:37:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Go ask Alice.


40 posted on 11/14/2015 8:25:30 AM PST by Rusty0604
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