[SpaceBar]

a few years back...

Try like almost fifty years ago when the first account of dosing spiders and observing their webs was detailed in the TIME-LIFE science and nature encyclopedia popular in the early 1960's.

[Kenton]

Now I’ve got this image of a spider sitting back with a joint and a double espresso before he heads off to a hard day spinning webs...

[VOA]

“
Studies on Spiders show the dangers of Drugs Like Marijuana (Very cool Video)
“

In case it hasn’t been mentioned by another poster,
back in the late sixties or early seventies one of the popular magazines
ran an photojournalistic articles about webs spun by spiders
“under the influence” of some of the “recreational drugs” of the era.
(I think this was in “Life” or “Look” magazine.)

It’s been DECADES, but IIRC, the spider dosed with LSD wove a totally
F-—ed-up web.
Not a strategy for long-term survival!!!

[Birdsbane]

Humans don’t spin webs. Dogs can’t have chocolate or eat raw salmon. Spiders are alien creatures compared to mammals. Conclusion...this is BS.

[sinanju]

Who the hell uses Chloral Hydrate in this day and age?

Last time I read of the stuff, it was being used in the thirties and forties to get alcoholics in rehab through the withdrawl stage without dying of the DT’s (replaced by valium).

[tsomer]

Hmmmmmm.....

I’m not sure we shouldn’t legalize pot, but we certainly need to outlaw caffeine.