Rats taking cannabis get taste for heroin

news@nature.com ^ | 5 July 2006 | Michael Hopkin

[TheSpottedOwl]

Yeah? Give them bread on paper plates and the next thing you know, they're eating your bloody clothes! Marlon Perkins brought home kangaroo rats, and they escaped :(

Anyone got any pot or heroin I can borrow? Maybe they'll OD...

[Know your rights]

Anyone got any pot or heroin I can borrow? Maybe they'll OD...

People can't OD on pot (not sure about rats). Try alcohol instead.

[Know your rights]

Watch out! Here come the "conservatives" who fear liberty but can't logically argue against it!

[Lancey Howard]

"Give me drugs or give me death"?

[funkywbr]

Lets see, a HUMAN gives a RAT pot!

A human then gives a RAT horse.

Hell a RAT will eat anything.

Why didnt they put CRANK in the cages instead of Horse?

Were they afraid of turning the rats into rednecks?

[neverdem]

"If we turned back the clock with the knowledge we have now, these two drugs would never have been legalized," Hurd says.

I doubt that, at least about alcohol. Smarter governments figured out taxation schemes.

Dave Alexander, owner and operator of the Brickskeller in downtown Washington, D.C., argues that "beer is probably the reason for civilization."

[Know your rights]

More like: Give me liberty, including the liberty to decide for myself whether or not to use drugs, or give me death.

[Mike Darancette]

rats are more likely to get hooked on heroin if they have previously been given cannabis

How about Republicans?

[Cedar]

Poor rats, now they are following the Fried Piper.

[USNBandit]

This type of thread always devolves into a poop slinging contest, so I try to get in early with a little humor.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

By the end, rats that'd had cannabis in their 'teens' were pressing the lever that delivered heroin about 1.5 times more than the rats that had previously been drug-free.

This article is hilarious. Shades of "Reefer Madness", which has been playing on Flix channel lately, btw.

It's clear that all the rats were pressing the lever to get some smack.

But, for every 7.5 times the hippie rats pressed the lever, the ivy-league rats pressed it 5 times. ;)

[Moonman62]

More like: Give me liberty, including the liberty to decide for myself whether or not to use drugs, or give me death.

Move to Amsterdam where you can enjoy your liberty for a few more years before the Muslims take over.

[mysterio]

Pothead rats like heroin, too? Well, shucks. By all means, let's kick in every door in the country and revoke the Bill of Rights to stop them.

The failed war on some drugs proponents have had lots of "studies" over the years. The first "studies" claimed pot made daughters want to engage in intercourse with jazz musicians. Did it have that effect on the rats, too?

[mysterio]

"Give me drugs or give me death"?

Give me nanny statism or give me emotion based slogans?

[stands2reason]

No, but pythons prefer rats on cannabis.

As long as they have a Big Grab bag of Cheetos to go with.

[Sundog]

Do you ever look at stupidvideos.com?

Stupid fellow shows a python a rat, then pulls it away and puts his hand in the same place.

Next moment he has a set of fang marks across his palms.

Then the other guy says, "Yeah, that's what mine looks like too."

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/animals/Big_Snake_Bite/

Cheers.

[neverdem]

Sativex has a high concentrate of alcohol. Any result might be skewed by the presence of the alcohol to this study.

SATIVEX®contains approximately 50% v/v of ethanol. Each dose contains up to 0.04 g of ethanol. The median daily dose of 5 sprays would be up to 0.2 g ethanol.

v/v represents the volumes of active ingredients to the volume of solution, i.e. an abbreviation for "by volume," used in chemistry and pharmacology to describe the concentration of a substance in a mixture or solution. Thus 2% v/v means that the volume of the substance is 2% of the total volume of the solution or mixture. See also w/v.

According to New Zealand, "One standard drink equals 10 grams of pure alcohol," i.e. one regular can of beer has about 50 times the total daily average dose consumed with Sativex, depending on the actual ethanol content and volume. Give me a break.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Sativex has a high concentrate of alcohol. Any result might be skewed by the presence of the alcohol to this study.

The control group received it as well. Curiously the theory that THC acts on the same pathway as opium in the study supports the medical use of pot.

[The Red Zone]

However, Pubs proved to be resistant.

[Reform4Bush]

Marijuana use has never made me want to try heroin, but reading this post has.

There you have it. Scientific proof that reading BS will make you want to try heroin.