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Crop circles, poppies - and tripping wallabies - Nature, Environment - The Independent

Wallabies snacking in opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around creating crop circles.

Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

Tasmania attorney-general Lara Giddings told a budget hearing yesterday that she recently read about the wallabies in a brief on the state's large poppy industry.

She said: "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:51:57 PM EST
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Stone the crows...oh...hang on...
by Sassafras on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 04:24:24 PM EST
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If the West allowed Afghanistan to produce a legally grown opium crop, then Tasmania wouldn't have to deal with stoned wallabies.
by Magnifico on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 02:57:19 AM EST
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