“Australia grows 50 percent of the world’s legal opium, and you might be a bit shocked to learn what it does to the local wildlife.
Wallabies have been eating the crops and essentially getting “high as a kite,” according to an Australian official who talked to the BBC. The marsupials are eating the poppies that grow on the plants, which are used to make painkillers like morphine.
….It turns out the animal kingdom is crawling with its fair share of stoners. Reindeer are said to seek out “magic” mushrooms to escape the reality of long, harsh winters, according to one researcher. The hallucinatory fungi apparently have the same effect on them as they do on humans.”
(via Crop Circles Created By Wallabies ‘Stoned’ On Opium, Australian Officials Say)
