Spiders On Drugs

The 1960s was a decade of love, peace, and experimenting with drugs. But Swiss pharmacologist Dr.Peter Witt slightly missed the point- instead of taking the drugs himself he gave them to spiders. He discovered that the effects were consistent and predictable, as they are when taken by humans. Webs are the perfect tool for measuring how drugs affect spiders. You can see in each web the differencs that were made with each drug.

First here is an example of a Normal Web

Spiders on marijuana made a reasonable stab at spinning webs but appeared to lose concentration about half-way through and didnt even bothered to finish. The effects start almost immediately and lasted several hours.

 Those on Benzedrine - "speed" - spin their webs "with great gusto, but apparently without much planning leaving large holes", according to New Scientist magazine. Trying to get the job done fast! SPIN SPIN SPIN! But the middle section has gone wrong.....move to the edge...do a bit more.....that's gone wrong as well....feeling agitated it made the spider spin erratically

Caffeine, one of the most common drugs consumed by people in soft drinks, tea and coffee, makes spiders incapable of spinning anything better than a few threads strung together at random. The spider was even busier that the one on the Speed but the caffeine reduces fine motor skills so the web is all over the place.

 On chloral hydrate, an ingredient of sleeping pills, spiders "drop off before they even get started". It looks as though the spider started off on the right lines but then just fell asleep

Very Neat, This web is symmetrical and complete but a little to spaced out for catching flies.Still much better than any of the other webs. The strange part is LSD has been claimed to be a wonder drug by people, as it helped them professionally as well as spiritually to boost mind expansion which may have something to do with proficiency of the webs lines.
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