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Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles

Posted by samzenpus on from the trippity-hop dept.

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."

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  1. If there animals are getting high by BigHungryJoe · · Score: 3, 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.

    1. Re:If there animals are getting high by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, 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...

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    2. Re:If there animals are getting high by TapeCutter · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm 50 and have smoked for 35yrs now, short term memory is screwed when stoned but when straight I don't seem to have any more "senior moments" than other non-smokers my age.

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  2. Wrong site? by adosch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Was this suppose to be a post on 'The Onion' ? Maybe an editor was 'high' and posted on the wrong site...

  3. Where's the picture of the circles? by DigitalReverend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Screw having a picture of the animal, I want to see the crop circles.

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  4. Re:Who hops around on opium? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It might be the same as the effects of catnip in humans (a mild sedative) vs. on cats (usually not a sedative).

  5. Re:Who hops around on opium? by amicusNYCL · · Score: 2, 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.

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  6. Re:Next on Fox: When Animals get High by mikiN · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Animals are beautiful people.

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