Cocaine Bear

I CANNOT WAIT... it's already been like months-and-months since I heard about it!

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TheFizza wrote:

I CANNOT WAIT... it's already been like months-and-months since I heard about it!

iflscience.com/cocaine-bear-the-true-st … aine-58990

well if you are expecting a true life story film I think  you will be disappointed if the trailer is to go by, but I expect you aint..

btw this is out in 1 week

In 1994, a team of Nasa scientists started exploring an entirely new frontier: giving weed to spiders. Not just weed: the researchers subjected their spiders to a large amount of psychoactive drugs. Caffeine, marijuana, amphetamine, plus chloral hydrate, a sedative, for the comedown. To carry out the important work of getting spiders high, they’d developed an ingenious method. First you dissolve your drug of choice in a sugar solution, and then you inject it into the body of a dead fly. Tweezer the fly into a spider’s web, and wait for the tiny predator to pounce. And then you clear away the web, and see what your spider builds next.......

Images of their intoxicated webs still circulate online, and many of them are strangely beautiful. The spiders dosed with marijuana will tend to weave the inner part of their webs as normal, before stumbling into a comfortable stupor some time before finishing the job. Benzedrine webs are frantic and twitchy; the spider will complete one section, before apparently darting off to start all over again somewhere else, leaving large gaps entirely unfilled. But my favourite might be the webs spiders make on LSD. Spiders midway through a profound acid experience produce perfect, mathematically even radial spokes—but no actual web. Just a glorious, useless sunburst. Maybe the spiders had encountered God........

A few drug-taking animals can assume almost mythic proportions. In 2013, a feral pig broke into a campsite in rural Australia, drank 18 beers, tore through the bins, got in a fight with a cow, and then fell asleep under a tree. For this feat, the pig briefly became a kind of folk hero; the Australians, who tend to do this sort of thing, named him “Swino”. (There was something close to a moment of national mourning a month later, when Swino was found dead by a roadside after having been hit by a truck...........)
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