Stoned Sunshine Coast raccoon makes it into the New York Times

The new movie 'Cocaine Bear' has folks discussing other notable animals that have ingested drugs

A couple of weeks ago, Irene Davy, co-founder of Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, got a call from Emily Anthes of the New York Times who was inquiring after a raccoon the centre rescued in January 2018.

“He recovered quite quickly. By six o’clock he was acting like a normal raccoon, hissing and wanting out of the kennel we had him in,” Davy said at the time. How the raccoon came to ingest the marijuana was unclear, though she speculated it may have been a discarded butt or edibles or cannabis bud in a home or shed.

The Elizabeth Banks-directed movie released last month is a fictionalized retelling of a black bear in Georgia that found a drug smuggler’s stash of cocaine in 1985 .

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