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  So if we “do it like they do on the Discovery Channel,” does that mean they
                     “do it like we do on Reefer Madness?”
                                        
> Noah’s Ark, he found, would have looked a lot like London on a Saturday
> night. “In every country, in almost every class of animal,” Siegel
> explains, “I found examples of not only the accidental but the intentional
> use of drugs.” In West Bengal, a group of 150 elephants smashed their way
> into a warehouse and drank a massive amount of moonshine. They got so drunk
> they went on a rampage and killed five people, as well as demolishing seven
> concrete buildings. If you give hash to male mice, they become horny and
> seek out females — but then they find “they can barely crawl over the
> females, let alone mount them,” so after a little while they yawn and start
> licking their own penises.
> 
> In Vietnam, the water buffalo have always shunned the local opium plants.
> They don’t like them. But when the American bombs started to fall all
> around them during the war, the buffalo left their normal grazing grounds,
> broke into the opium fields, and began to chew. They would then look a
> little dizzy and dulled. When they were traumatized, it seems, they wanted 
>  like the mongoose, like us — to escape from their thoughts.
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “Why animals eat psychoactive plants - Boing Boing [2]”

Posted mostly for a few friends who shall remain nameless who might find this
article interesting.

You know who you are.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029301
[2] http://boingboing.net/2015/01/20/why-animals-eat-

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