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I don't know; I know a lot of potheads who never progressed to heroin. BTW, earning a paycheck by getting rats stoned must be a real hoot.

11 posted on 07/08/2006 3:51:01 AM PDT by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)

(snip)Yasmin Hurd, now at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, gave 4-week-old rats THC,(snip)"The researchers injected the rats with the THC equivalent of about three-quarters of a joint (scaled down for a rat's size)"(snip)(from article about stupid study)

I don't know; I know a lot of potheads who never progressed to heroin. BTW, earning a paycheck by getting rats stoned must be a real hoot.

3/4 of a joint for a baby rat?

The equivalent dose for a 170 lb. human would be - 2,000 joints with the estimated weight of the rat at one ounce!

Science - my @$$!

17 posted on 07/08/2006 5:54:18 AM PDT by winston2 (In matters of necessity let there be unity, in matters of doubt liberty, and in all things charity:-)

In a related story, 100% of adult rats that use heroin started by hanging out with lab researchers on government grants.

32 posted on 07/08/2006 7:14:25 AM PDT by Sender ("Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-b*tches we're going up against. By God, I do".)

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