Spiders On Drugs

Scientists at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have turned their attention from the mysteries of the cosmos to a more esoteric area of research: what happens when you get a spider stoned. Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given. Nasa scientists believe the research demonstrates that web-spinning spiders can be used to test drugs because the more toxic the chemical, the more deformed was the web.

* Spiders on marijuana made a reasonable stab at spinning webs but appeared to lose concentration about half-way through.

* Those on Benzedrine - "speed" - spin their webs "with great gusto, but apparently without much planning leaving large holes", according to New Scientist magazine.

* Caffeine, one of the most common drugs consumed by Britons in soft drinks, tea and coffee, makes spiders incapable of spinning anything better than a few threads strung together at random.

· On chloral hydrat, an ingredient of sleeping pills, spiders "drop off before they even get started".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drug Free Spider Web

Web is normal. Spider starts to spin the web in an anti-clockwise direction.

 

 

 

 

Web created while exposed to magic-mushrooms.
The Spider misses the total 1st quarter of the
web when starting to weave and just starts on
the 2nd quarter.

 

 

 

 

 

Web created while exposed to LSD. Look at
the inner intricate sections of the web. They are
totally missed out, and the spider will not catch
insects.

          

 

 

 

     Web created while exposed to Marijuana