America's DEA has warned Utah against legalising marijuana, saying the state should consider the possible impact on poor, dagga addicted bunnies.
The Washington Post reports that Special agent Matt Fairbanks told the State Senate that “Deforestation has left marijuana grows with even rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana.”
"One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone."
Fairbanks worries that if the state passes the bill legalising the herb, its animals will develop a taste for the plant and basically spend their days high as kites.
The report didn't mention whether the birds would start singing reggae.
He further worried about the environmental impact of farming the plant.
“Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion,” Fairbanks added. “The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water are still unknown.”
According to The Guardian Jeremy Roberts, president of the company Medical Cannabis Payment Solutions responded to Fairbank's testimony by saying, “I was kind of shocked to find out the killer rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is actually in the Utah mountains.”
Further he pointed out that the bill required the plants be grown indoors, so fears of the state's mountains being covered by cannabis were a little bit overblown.
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