In 1995, scientists working at NASA took a break from the usual cosmic research to tackle a much different problem: getting spiders stoned. Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given; the more toxic the drug, the more deformed the web. Surprisingly enough, spiders on coffee created much more deformed webs than those on marijuana, speed and even LSD. Wonder why this happened…
Normal spider web, no drugs.
Spider web on mescaline – a psychedelic alkaloid typically extracted from cactus, used by shamans from North America to transcend in a trance.
Spider web on LSD
Spider web on marijuana
Spider web on caffeine – see how damaged and deformed it is.
Spider web on speed – it looks a little better than on caffeine.
Sleeping pills – the most toxic of them all.
Andrei is no scientist, but from an early age, he has been fascinated by science; that's why he went to college, and signed up for Geophysics. Feeling that there's a huge gap between science and average people, he rallied TP, started ZME Science, and gave it a green twist too. 
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Published on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 by Mihai Andrei
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