Spiders on marijuana are so laid back, they weave just so much of their webs and then... well it just doesn’t seem to matter any more. On the soporific drug chloral hydrate, they drop off before they even get started.

A spider’s skill at spinning its web is so obviously affected by the ups and downs of different drugs that scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama think spiders could replace other animals in testing the toxicity of chemicals.

(New Scientist, April 29, 1995.)

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