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From Stoned Bunnies to Cannabis-Based Pet Care: What's the Effect of Pot on Animals?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/02/2015 - 08:00

NEW YORK (MainStreet) — It appears that the DEA will stop at nothing to slow down and frustrate medical marijuana reform. That said, the latest "health warning" from the agency, this time in Utah, borders on the bizarre.

Special Agent Matt Fairbanks, a member of Utah's DEA marijuana eradication team, told a state panel of lawmakers in early March that stoned bunnies pose a major threat to public safety and as a result, should impede the current cannabis legalization initiative now the table in the state authorizing medical use for specific conditions.

"I come to represent the actual science and I come with some severe concerns," Fairbanks told lawmakers during his testimony. According to the concerned agent, "even rabbits...had cultivated a taste for the marijuana, where one of them refused to leave us." Apparently this keen-eyed member of DEA enforcement also thought it was distressing that the rabbit's "natural instincts to...

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