New Orleans Police Department officials have disclosed that the rats infesting the department’s headquarters are “all high” from consuming marijuana stored in the evidence room, as reported by UPI.com.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick informed the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee that the building is plagued with cockroaches and rats, with the latter seeming to revel in destroying evidence.
“The rats eating our marijuana, they’re all high,” Kirkpatrick emphasized during this week’s committee meeting.
Kirkpatrick advocated for a $7.6 million proposal to temporarily relocate the police headquarters to a leased space in a downtown building for a decade while exploring permanent solutions to the current building’s numerous issues, which extend beyond pest problems.
“We all know the facilities have been rundown,” remarked Criminal Justice Committee Chairman Oliver Thomas in an interview with WDSU-TV.
“Last year, it was so hot that we had to close the buildings. Sometimes it’s so cold that our officers and the rank at headquarters can’t even occupy the building.”
Gilbert Montano, the city’s chief administrative officer, informed the committee that the relocation proposal would be significantly more cost-effective than the estimated $30 million needed to renovate the current headquarters.
The proposal now awaits approval from the full City Council.
While it’s improbable that the animals are experiencing the euphoric effects of cannabis, scientifically speaking, raw cannabis contains inactive ingredients that require heating — decarboxylation — before THC is produced in a form that induces the sensation of being high.
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