At a New Orleans City Council hearing on Monday about the sorry state of the city’s police headquarters—which faces issues with plumbing, mold and infestations, among other problems—Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick that rodents are now munching on drugs in the department’s evidence room—and ostensibly getting high.
“The rats are eating our marijuana,” Kirkpatrick told the council’s Criminal Justice Committee at a hearing. “They’re all high.”
Kirkpatrick’s mention of stoned rats, first reported by NOLA.com, was among a laundry list of housekeeping items she flagged for city leaders. “It’s not just at police headquarters,” she said. “It is all the districts. The uncleanliness is off the charts.”
While it wasn’t clear from Kirkpatrick’s comments what kind of cannabis products the rats are reportedly eating, it’s unlikely that unprocessed marijuana flower would get them high. While research has indicated that rats respond to marijuana smoke and vapor much like humans do, raw marijuana contains hardly any active THC. Instead, it contains THC-A, which must undergo a process known as decarboxylation to become psychoactive.
Other common cannabis products do include active THC, however—including edibles, tinctures and some concentrates—and could theoretically get rats high. It’s not likely stoned rats are any more dangerous
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