Rats eat marijuana from police evidence room

Rats that managed to get into an evidence room at a decaying police headquarters building have been eating confiscated marijuana, the New Orleans police chief has said reports Sky news.

The ageing offices of the police department in New Orleans are so dilapidated and vermin-infested that the animals managed to get into the evidence lock-up room, according to Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick.

"The rats eating our marijuana, they're all high," she told city council members on Wednesday.

"The uncleanliness [in the building] is off the charts," she added.

Rat droppings have been found on officers' desks, Ms Kirkpatrick said - adding that the building, where the department has been based since 1968, has been taken over by mould and cockroaches.

As to what they go through when they do, he told The Associated Press that they may experience the same effects as humans, depending on what form it was in.

Many people experience a sense of relaxation and euphoria from the drug, as well as altered senses, according to the national institute on drug abuse.

"From understanding the biology of the rat and how it's somewhat similar to us, I would think based on the amount or concentration they take in, it would be somewhat similar to what humans experience," Mr Harrison said.

(Source: Sky news)