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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Will that mess up the Easter Egg Hunt?
I hate rabbits. Would never have one for a pet,
The good stuff has to be heated to become active. You can eat it raw all day long and nothing will happen.
Rabbits will still vote democrat stoned or sober.
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
Call Alice
When she was just small
Might end up with a carrot shortage. Can’t have that.
The last person I saw smoking weed was taking a smoking break outside a bank. This didn’t forbode well, but it wasn’t my bank...
Don’t care. Legalizing pot has been a major disaster. Maybe the worst ever
With the end of chervon deference they now have to scare bunny lovers and PETA to get Congress to make new laws protecting animals from a ditch weed.
One late night, after midnight, as I was driving thru the UTAH countryside near Escalante, at least three big jack rabbits decided to play Squirrel Crossing the Road with me.
None of them made it.
I guessed they may have hit the jimpson weed but I don’t know if it grows in that area.
I’d say that most folks do not realize just how sharp their claws are!
or TEETH!
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