Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles 104
It's the tripnaut! writes "The BBC reports that Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around 'as high as a kite', a government official has said. 'The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,' says Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania. 'Then they crash,' she added."
If there animals are getting high (Score:4, Insightful)
then is the desire to alter your consciousness with drugs a naturally occurring one? Does the drug war make sense anymore?
And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college? What the hell was I so scared of? Of course, now I'm old, and I don't have access to pot, so I can't try it.
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Re:If there animals are getting high (Score:5, Insightful)
is the desire to alter your consciousness with drugs a naturally occurring one?
Ever seen a cat around catnip? Lemme put it this way: The question you're asking doesn't occur to them, they just know they love catnip.
And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college?
I hear ya man, especially since where I went to college it was about as close to legal as you can get in the States. When the penalty is a ticket less severe than for double parking, how much enforcement do you think there would be? But nooooo, I had to actually study and be a good student in college...
Where's the picture of the circles? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who hops around on opium? (Score:5, Insightful)
It might be the same as the effects of catnip in humans (a mild sedative) vs. on cats (usually not a sedative).
Re:Who hops around on opium? (Score:3, Insightful)
except that Morphine is produced from the Milk of the poppy, which can be directly ingested in the case of a Wallaby eating a poppy, it would be similar to a human eating 80mg of pure Morphine Sulphate, i.e pretty strong.
No, it would be similar to a human eating one or two poppies.
Re:Next on Fox: When Animals get High (Score:2, Insightful)
Animals are beautiful people [imdb.com].
Re:If there animals are getting high (Score:3, Insightful)