These rats have got friends in high places.

Reefer-loving rodents are gobbling up the cannabis stash held under lock and key in the New Orleans Police Department’s dilapidated evidence room, officials announced on Monday.

“The rats are eating our marijuana,” Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee, according to NOLA.com.

“They’re all high.”

Kirkpatrick’s startling report came as she pleaded with city councilors to fund a new home for the Big Easy’s police force.

She argued that the current police headquarters, built in 1968, are not fit for a modern force — describing how the elevators are broken, there is no air conditioning, and officers are forced to work around the rat and cockroach droppings scattered on their desks.

The stoned rats are of particular concern because their taste for marijuana could jeopardize criminal cases, she noted.

“The uncleanliness is off the charts,” Kirkpatrick told city officials on Monday.

“The janitorial cleaning [team] deserves an award, trying to clean what is uncleanable.”

Problems at the police headquarters seemed to have arisen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina devastating the city in 2005.

“The basement was full [of flooding water],” an unidentified veteran of the force told NOLA.com.

“You get a lot of rodents that climb through the walls. Some things you can’t get to, so there has always been some type of rodent — bugs, rats, mice, whatever,” the officer explained.

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“You get a lot of rodents that climb through the walls. Some things you can’t get to, so there has always been some type of rodent — bugs, rats, mice, whatever,” the officer explained.

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The infestation is now a “turn-off” for any potential out-of-state transfers and hinders morale among the police force, Kirkpatrick argued.

“It’s not OK, and it’s not OK for people to be treated that way and be called ‘valued,’” she said.

Councilmember Oliver Thomas, who chairs the Criminal Justice Committee, seemed to agree.

He said he was “surprised” by the news of the marijuana-eating rats.