Studies on Spiders show the dangers of Drugs Like Marijuana (Very cool Video)

ChicoER Gate | 5/22/10 | Chuck Wolk

[OneVike]

Try like almost fifty years ago when the first account of dosing spiders and observing their webs was detailed in the TIME-LIFE science and nature encyclopedia popular in the early 1960's.

Wow, I actually forgot it has been that long. I think that information just points out how old we both are. Maybe that's why I mentally forgot when it came out.

I have been in denial since my doctor started prescribing prostate medication to me a few years ago.

[OneVike]

You're just going to save everyone! How effing Noble of you!

Thanks, your a peach.

[VOA]

“
Studies on Spiders show the dangers of Drugs Like Marijuana (Very cool Video)
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In case it hasn’t been mentioned by another poster,
back in the late sixties or early seventies one of the popular magazines
ran an photojournalistic articles about webs spun by spiders
“under the influence” of some of the “recreational drugs” of the era.
(I think this was in “Life” or “Look” magazine.)

It’s been DECADES, but IIRC, the spider dosed with LSD wove a totally
F-—ed-up web.
Not a strategy for long-term survival!!!

[OneVike]

(I think this was in “Life” or “Look” magazine.)

Yea,that is what SpaceBarsaid to me in comment #49a.

Not a strategy for long-term survival!!!

Thus the reason many liberals would love to see the masses high on drugs while they run the world. The Libertarians just seem to want people to be able to screw themselves up regardless of the problems it causes society as a whole.

[Birdsbane]

Humans don’t spin webs. Dogs can’t have chocolate or eat raw salmon. Spiders are alien creatures compared to mammals. Conclusion...this is BS.

[varyouga]

Society should not protect idiots at the expense of freedom.

If someone is smart enough to safely experiment with clean drugs and be a contributing member to society, let them. If someone is stupid enough to abuse dangerous dirty drugs and kill themselves, that's Darwin at work.

All the laws do is force the idiots to steal and put cash in violent criminal pockets instead of killing themselves quietly and cheaply. The laws do NOTHING to stop people from buying drugs. Right now, I can have any drug I want within a few hours. All I need is enough cash. If I was an addict, I'd have to steal since drugs cost more than gold. If drugs cost pennies, they could waste away until they starve and leave everyone else alone.

[Mila]

“Try like almost fifty years ago when the first account of dosing spiders and observing their webs was detailed in the TIME-LIFE science and nature encyclopedia popular in the early 1960’s.”

You’re right, Peter Witt did that in the mid-60’s

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/HL4606-001/Hulton-Archive

[TigersEye]

The spider that had THC given to it, ended up with the worse fate of all.

It caught a fly but couldn't bear to kill it?

[TigersEye]

Hey, why don't we just legalize all drugs alright?

Too much caffeine? It is amazing how quickly a defender of prohibition does a knee-jerk jump to that straw man when their defense of marijuana prohibition isn't accepted.

[OrangeHoof]

I thought the Canucks were already cool about pot. I mean, after all, if you had to live in 20-below winters, you’d be on drugs too. < /sarc >

[bigheadfred]

[Carry_Okie]

Most demented YouTube vid I've seen yet.

[sinanju]

Who the hell uses Chloral Hydrate in this day and age?

Last time I read of the stuff, it was being used in the thirties and forties to get alcoholics in rehab through the withdrawl stage without dying of the DT’s (replaced by valium).

[sinanju]

Not quite as much fun as those pictures of spiders trying to string their webs in zero-g on Skylab.

[tsomer]

Hmmmmmm.....

I’m not sure we shouldn’t legalize pot, but we certainly need to outlaw caffeine.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!