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"Fearless" stoned rabbits would thrive and could threaten people if Utah legalized medicinal marijuana, a hearing has been told.

The Washington Post reported that Drug Enforcement Administration agent Matt Fairbanks told a Utah Senate panel that if the state passed the bill that legalized treating patients with edible forms of the drug, consequences would be wildlife species "on a high all the time."

Fairbanks, a member of Utah's "marijuana eradication team," said that at some illegal marijuana sites he had seen rabbits that had developed a taste for the drug. One rabbit had refused to run away from him, as if it had lost the fear of people.

The Post report said legalization was an alternative to people growing the plants in remote mountain regions where wildlife had access to the plants, because people would be allowed to grow them on their farms or in their gardens.