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Check out this hilarious video of Spiders on Drugs
ChicoER Gate ^ | 5/22/10 | Chuck Wolk

Posted on 05/22/2010 6:33:17 PM PDT by Tom Hawks

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To: Tom Hawks

A spider on LSD sees insecticide cans and people about to step on them.


21 posted on 05/22/2010 7:51:31 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: Tom Hawks

Alcohol and LSD would be instructive too, but not in a way that would please the drug warriors. (Alcohol is just as damaging to web quality as some of the illegal drugs, and LSD makes the spider make a perfect web twice as big and very ornate compared to normal - whoops, there goes the argument about mental harm.) Sleep deprivation would also be instructive, if you could get a spider to build a web under such conditions.


22 posted on 05/22/2010 8:07:29 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

LOL! “The zombies got them”.


23 posted on 05/22/2010 8:17:34 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Watching the MSM with Obama is like watching Joslyn James with Tiger Woods)
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To: Ancient Drive

Actually spiders on LSD create PERFECT WEBS where all sides are equal and perfect


24 posted on 05/22/2010 8:46:38 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Tom Hawks

Thanks for that, I needed a laugh!


25 posted on 05/22/2010 8:49:29 PM PDT by MontanaBeth (Miles to go...)
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To: Tom Hawks

That spider reminded me of employees that I caught using pot and IMMEDIATLY FIRED!!


26 posted on 05/22/2010 8:52:03 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Tom Hawks

Would figure the spider on pot would weave the web to relieve the the munchies.


27 posted on 05/22/2010 8:59:56 PM PDT by Starstruck
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To: Tom Hawks
I don't have anything to do with drugs and recommend everybody on the planet do the same; every drug problem in the world would vanish within five days if the whole world were to do that...

Nonetheless that's never going to happen, hence the "War on Drugs(TM)", instituted under Richard Nixon. This is the single biggest issue I have with Republicans and there is little if anything to choose between demmy and pubby pols on the issue. The "war on drugs" leads to

It is that final item which some would use as a pretext to eviscerate the second amendment, which is the link pin of the entire bill of rights. Consider the following from the former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the Bush administration no less:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/17/weapons-ban-urged-to-rein-in-mexican-drug-war/

The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the war between Mexico and its drug cartels, saying the violence has the potential to bring down legitimate rule in that country.

Former CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner also called for the United States to more aggressively investigate U.S. gun sellers and tighten security along its side of the border, describing the situation as "critical" to the safety of people in both countries, whether they live near the border or not.

Mexico, for its part, needs to reduce official corruption and organize its forces along the lines the U.S. does, such as a specialized border patrol and a customs agency with a broader mandate than monitoring trade, Mr. Bonner said in an exchange of e-mails.

"Border security is especially important to breaking the power and influence of the Mexican-based trafficking organizations," Mr. Bonner said. "Despite vigorous efforts by both governments, huge volumes of illegal drugs still cross from Mexico..."

The problem here clearly is not guns and it is clearly a problem of economics. The drugs one of these idiots would use in a day under rational circumstances would cost a dollar; that would simply present no scope for crime or criminals. Under present circumstances that dollar's worth of drugs is costing the user $300 a day and since that guy is dealing with a 10% fence, he's having to commit $3000 worth of crime to buy that dollar's worth of drugs. In other words, a dollar's worth of chemicals has been converted into $3000 worth of crime, times the number of those idiots out there, times 365 days per year, all through the magic of stupid laws. No nation on Earth could afford that forever.

A rational set of drug laws would:

Do all of that, and the drug problem and 70% of all urban crime will vanish within two years. That would be an optimal solution; but you could simply legalize it all and still be vastly better off than we are now. 150 Years ago, there were no drug laws in America and there were no overwhelming drug problems. How bright do you really need to be to figure that one out?

28 posted on 05/22/2010 9:07:18 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: Tom Hawks
Medical marijuana is the only thing that successfully treats a spider with restless legs syndrome.
29 posted on 05/22/2010 9:07:35 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: wendy1946
Well said. Simply regulating and taxing marijuana along the lines of alcohol would be a severe blow to the cartels.

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John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html

30 posted on 05/22/2010 9:21:12 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: xp38; Tom Hawks; Clive

LOL! Too funny!

Thanks for the ping, xp38


31 posted on 05/23/2010 3:24:16 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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