Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles

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."

Comments

If there animals are getting high

[BigHungryJoe]

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.

Re:If there animals are getting high

[Chris Burke]

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?

[DigitalReverend]

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

Re:Who hops around on opium?

[gardyloo]

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