humble3d Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 DEA warns of stoned rabbits :rolleyes: Reader comment: Stoned rabbits might be better and safer than drunk bureaucrats... :lol: DEA warns of stoned rabbits if Utah passes medical marijuana :rolleyes: 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." DEA says Utah rabbits 'cultivated a taste' for potDuring a Utah Senate panel on a bill that will allow certain patients to be treated with edible forms of marijuana, special agent Matt Fairbanks warned of the environmental costs associated marijuana cultivation on public land. (Utah State Legislature)It's true that illegal pot farming can have harmful environmental consequences. Of course, nothing about these consequences is unique to marijuana. If corn were outlawed and cartels started growing it in national forests, the per-plant environmental toll would be about the same. But backcountry marijuana grows are a direct result of marijuana's illegal status. If you're concerned about the environmental impact of these grows, an alternative is to legalize and regulate the plant so that people can grow it on farms and in their gardens, rather than on remote mountainsides. Now, regarding rabbits. Some wild animals apparently do develop a taste for bud (and, yes, best to keep it away from your pets). But I don't know that the occasional high rabbit constitutes grounds for keeping marijuana prohibition in place, any more than drunk squirrels are an argument for outlawing alcohol. And let's not even get started on the nationwide epidemic of catnip abuse. There was a time, not too long ago, when drug warriors terrified a nation with images of "the devil's weed" and "reefer madness." Now, it seems that enforcers of marijuana law conjuring up a stoned bunny? Not scary enough for the Utah Senate, it seems: the panel approved the bill and sent it to the full Senate, where it will be debated this week. More marijuana news DEA group apologizes for commemorating Black History Month with the arrest of a Harlem drug dealer Two headlines perfectly sum up everything wrong with American drug policy » The Dutch Embassy made an infographic to troll D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser over pot » Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say »Wonkblog on marijuana policy » MORE VIA THE LINK BELOW http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/02/dea-warns-of-stoned-rabbits-if-utah-passes-medical-marijuana/?tid=pm_pop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Damm Pesky Wabbit's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I wouldn't worry my rabbits are always stoned to. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe13 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/bb/da/e0bbda5fa919078bdc97a870bf17a959.jpg :ganja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 apparently these people are highly competent.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say »but...on further investigation.. the researchers were found to be cheech and chong :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe13 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 "I'd rather pay his rent, than feed him," is a common refrain heard at home. Damn munchies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 If rabbits were stoned, all the other animals would be too, eagles who prey on them, tigers, snakes ... :ganja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 the thing is that for THC to be active, the buds (leaves do have none unless they have some resin on them) have to be dryed so that the chlorophyll can be turned into sugar..... so little rabbits being stoned is not really a reality.if you remember a few decade ago it was banned in the usa because the bad black boys who were smoking it were commiting rape because of it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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