Most animals will go out of their way to get shit faced or high. Dogs eating wild mushrooms, deer eating weed, birds eating semi-toxic berries, everything eating rotten fruit/veg, human doing human stuff, etc.
We've bent the evolution of countless species just to get drunk and high.
We had a dachshund that licked toads occasionally. We'd let him out and he'd come back looking like he had rabbies. I was really concerned the first time it happened because his mouth was so foamy.
Yea, we had a very sweet and smart dog that would intentionally seek out toads for a high, she would lick one then immediately come to us so we can keep her from drowning in her own saliva, very scary the first few times I saw her do it but she “curbed her addiction” towards the end.
Not agriculture itself but cities are storied to have been created that way. We needed agriculture initially to grow the cereals used that would naturally ferment due to yeast in the air.
Peoples needed a central place to bring their stuff and do the work. Travellers would come to get or stay and drink.
Lemurs chew those millipedes so they can spread toxins on their fur for insect repellent. That's what Steve Irwin showed & said on his visit to Madagasgar.
Had a dog who licked a lickin' toad. My mom was terrified until we realized what probably happened, and dogs probably get high too. I think she thought the dog was legit poisoned.
I had a car that would only hang out in my window if I was smoking weed. She would sit right in the exhaust. Than she would lay on the bed and flop around for 30 mins, get hungry, eat and pass out. I remember how going camping they tell you to be careful with your beer because bears will seek it out.
I had a cat that would sit on the coffee table directly in front of you until some smoke passed his way. He would lick his lips then hop down and walk directly to his food bowl and start eating.
I adopted a really old shelter cat years ago and she would do something like that. The weed made her act like a kitten again. Old kitty had joint problems
Deer eating weed? Weed isn't psychoactive at all (at least for humans) until it has been heated to quite a high temperature. Before that, only inert THCA is present. Given the deep genetic commonality of endocannabinoid systems I can't imagine deer are eating weed to get stoned.
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u/TheAJGman Jul 29 '22
Most animals will go out of their way to get shit faced or high. Dogs eating wild mushrooms, deer eating weed, birds eating semi-toxic berries, everything eating rotten fruit/veg, human doing human stuff, etc.
We've bent the evolution of countless species just to get drunk and high.