Reindeer Whacked Out on Psychedelic Drugs

Parents be warned: reindeer are drug fiends and they should be kept away from your children at all costs.

IT'S no wonder Rudolph and his reindeer pals can fly: scientists say they have found that the animals regularly eat magic mushrooms to get high.

Scientist Andrew Haynes says reindeer deliberately seek out the mind-bending fungi to escape the monotony of dreary, long winters, Britain's The Sun newspaper reports.

Writing in the respected Pharmaceutical Journal, Haynes said: "They have a desire to experience altered states of consciousness."

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Haynes also said that in some parts of the world herdsmen drink reindeer urine to get high themselves.

[Herald Sun]