Guardian
Legalising medical marijuana in Utah could lead to absent-minded rabbits and other animals who don’t feel their natural instincts, a special agent for the DEA has warned the state.
In testimony last week before the Utah state senate, and first spotted by the Washington Post, special agent Matt Fairbanks expressed “some severe concerns” about marijuana as a cash crop. “Now I deal in facts. I deal in science,” he said, citing his experience ranging Utah’s mountains as a member of the state’s “marijuana eradication” team to bolster his concerns.
“Deforestation has left marijuana grows with even rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana,” Fairbanks declared, suggesting that hares were yet one more of an unknown number of species to have succumbed to a cannabis addiction.
Leporine marijuana abuse was so severe, Fairbanks said, that “one of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone.”
“Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion,” he added. “The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water are still unknown.”
Fairbanks did not say why marijuana cash crops would be any more destructive than the corn and wheat crops that grow in Utah and have similarly destructive consequences, also by way of the pesticides, deforestation and erosion that farmers inflict on the environment. Nor did Fairbanks present science from environmental researchers or biologists, despite his assertion that “I come to represent the actual science. I want the science studied and looked at and specifically gone over.”
2 comments:
"“Now I deal in facts. I deal in science,” he said..."
seriously, he really said that ? ? ?
what an idiot...
here's a science fact: marijuana IS NOT PSYCHOACTIVE until it is exposed to a certain (forget the number) high temperature...
eating 'raw' MJ does NOTHING, except give you a stomach ache from the trichomes...
so much for Mr. Science and Facts...
freaking drug warrior douchebag AND an idiot...
now, he DOES have a point about outlaw growers not giving a shit about despoiling land and overuse of fertilizer, etc... EXCEPT the pesticides, not sure what he is seeing, or if it is stupid growers, but there aren't a whole lot of bugs who will wipe out MJ crops... just not a big meal ticket for them, pesticides are not *generally* needed...
BUT, that is EXACTLY a point for legalizing the growing: so they DON'T have to literally hide in the bushes, and can do the growing in the open with no guerrilla farming which PROMOTES bad growing practices...
i dare say, LEGAL (and illegal) grazing and crops by ranchers probably despoil approximately one zillion times as much acreage, but let's have Mr. Science and Facts make up policy based on his idiotic views...
you've lost the drug wars, you greedy, control freak pukes, go back to your martinis and leave us folk alone...
The threat from pot smoking rabbits pales to insignificance when compared to the threat posed by alcoholic rabbits. Drunken rabbits are on a continual rampage in my home town. The DEA should know better.
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