Marijuana Moment
At a New Orleans City Council hearing on Monday about the sorry state of the city’s police headquarters—which faces issues with plumbing, mold and infestations, among other problems—Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick that rodents are now munching on drugs in the department’s evidence room—and ostensibly getting high.
“The rats are eating our marijuana,” Kirkpatrick told the council’s Criminal Justice Committee at a hearing. “They’re all high.”
Kirkpatrick’s mention of stoned rats, first reported by NOLA.com, was among a laundry list of housekeeping items she flagged for city leaders. “It’s not just at police headquarters,” she said. “It is all the districts. The uncleanliness is off the charts.”
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