DailyDirt: This Is Your Brain On Drugs...

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Tue, Nov 10th 2015 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Drugs are baaad, mmkay? And it is highly recommended that you NOT take micro-doses of LSD while you're at work. So just don't do drugs. Never. (So that when you do...) And check out all the other animals in the animal kingdom that like to get high -- cuz if everyone else wanted to jump off a bridge, would you do it, too?

Dolphins are pretty intelligent creatures -- and they apparently suck on puffer fish for fun. Young dolphins ingest a nerve toxin from puffer fish, pass around the fish like a joint, and chill. Marine biologists haven't seen dolphins get the munchies yet, though. [url]
Catnip doesn't work on all cats -- just about 70-80% of them -- and it only works on cats that are older than 6 months that have reached sexual maturity. Catnip is considered harmless to cats and non-addictive. [url]
Spiders were first given drugs by scientists in the 1950s -- generating some unusual spider web patterns. Research on this strange topic has continued and has even been done by NASA in the 1990s. Clearly, some drugs have an effect on the motor skills of spiders, but it's not exactly clear what we've learned from getting spiders artificially intoxicated. [url]

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Filed Under: animals, catnip, cats, dolphins, drugs, spiders

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Apocryphal Coward, 10 Nov 2015 @ 5:24pm

And it is highly recommended that you NOT take micro-doses of LSD while you're at work.
But macro-doses are OK if your name is Dock Ellis. Or Francis Crick.
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Nov 2015 @ 6:14pm

archive.is links
I tried the Archive.is link (of the Scientific American article on catnip) and got a blanked-out page, though the original scientificamerican.com page shows up just fine. Looking at the page code, the Archive.is page adds an awful lot of junk code to the page, including countless HTML tags that do not exist in the original page. The archive.is copy is more than 3X the file size of the original page.

Is there a reason why archive.is adds so much extraneous crap to the original webpage?
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Nov 2015 @ 7:21pm

Just wait until the dolphins initiate the war on dolphin drugs!
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Anonymous Coward, 11 Nov 2015 @ 4:06am

we need to declare a war on drugs !!!
and create a yuge government department to control the illegal sub-marine traffic of puffer fish
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Anonymous Coward, 11 Nov 2015 @ 5:19am

War on drugs == get rich quick scheme
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Anonymous Coward, 11 Nov 2015 @ 10:03am

Link to a minute and a half video of spiders on drugs...Very Funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-r-S0fIkA
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Uriel-238 (profile), 11 Nov 2015 @ 11:02am

Catnip also works more effectivly on big cats
...e.g. lions and tigers.

I'm pretty sure we don't yet know why.
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Pixelation, 11 Nov 2015 @ 12:55pm

Hey Flipper, don't Bogard that puffer!
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