1.0 link 220662 <![CDATA[Stoned Wallabies Blamed For Australian Crop Circles]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/high-wallabies-munchies-b_n_220662.html SYDNEY &mdash; Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said.

Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials' antics in a brief on the state's large poppy industry. Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

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