This is what happens when you give drugs to spiders (1 Viewer)

based on this, the only thing we know for sure...

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You may not get your clients set free, but if you can at least get them a better deal... a win, is a win, is a win....
 
You may not get your clients set free, but if you can at least get them a better deal... a win, is a win, is a win....

BTW - I was reffering to getting a better deal on their bags o weed... Not at inflated cop prices.
 
based on this, the only thing we know for sure...
Our brains are pretty distant from spiders (see the LSD effect), but also the equivalent dose to size would probably be about like drinking 200 red bulls in an hour, which yeah, might mess you up a tad.
 
Who needs spiders when you've got soldiers...

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there is no meth spider. How can you have a drug study without a meth spider? :hihi:
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They bought the drugs from law enforcement, which we know has a dramatically inflated view of the cost of drugs.

"The suspect was arrested with $500,000 worth of marijuana"

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That's the most expensive dime bag I've ever seen :hihi:
 
there is no meth spider. How can you have a drug study without a meth spider? :hihi:


So I googled this research and the history is pretty fascinating. The idea of using the spider's web as a basis to examine how different psychoactive substances affect the brain was first hatched by a Swiss pharmacologist-researcher in 1948, and he was so captivated with the project that he continued through the 1970s.

NASA ultimately re-created the experiments in 1995 and I believe that's where the photos in the OP came from. In either case, it's not surprising that meth wouldn't be included, given its more recent arrival on the drug scene. I suppose that some amphetamine components are in these experiments and you could speculate that meth would be similar, but who knows - it's much more powerful.


It all started in 1948, thanks to the curiosity of a Swiss gentleman named Peter N. Witt. A pharmacologist by trade, Witt had spent much of his time researching the effects of various drugs on humans at Germany’s University Tübingen. He shared his small research space with H.M. Peters, a zoologist who studied spiders.

For months, Peters fruitlessly tried to capture the web-building process on film, but as he sat and watched late into the night, he’d often fall asleep and miss the process (spiders typically build their webs between 2AM and 5AM). After one particularly frustrating night, Peters asked Witt to find a way to shift the process to more reasonable hours.

Annoyed by his colleague’s incessant pestering, Witt agreed. He began by addressing the problem the only way he knew how: with psychoactive drugs.

Until then, he’d only worked with humans and “had not the slightest idea how the drugs would affect spiders.” Nonetheless, Witt collected potent doses of several drugs -- marijuana, mescaline (peyote), morphine, scopolomine, and Benzedrine -- mixed them with sugar water to attract interest, and administered tiny drops of the solutions into the spiders’ mouths (one drug per spider), at various levels of concentration.

The following morning, Peters and his team of zoologists returned sorely disappointed: Witt’s tests failed to change the spiders’ tendency to work on webs late at night. But the results fascinated Witt: the creatures' mannerisms and web patterns deviated tremendously with each drug administered. At that moment, Witt decided to entirely devote himself to getting spiders high.
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Witt honed his experiments over the years. He exclusively used the zilla x-notata, a garden spider species that spins orb webs; he kept them on a natural diet -- one that provided the spiders with sufficient energy, but was also sparse enough to force them to build a new web each night. He also only used female spiders, because males are half the size, eat less, and don’t build webs as often. In subsequent experiments, he added other drugs into the mix -- chiefly LSD and caffeine. Each drug produced its own distinctive aberration.

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https://priceonomics.com/a-brief-history-of-spiders-on-drugs/
 

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