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What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain

posted by on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:39AM   
from the whoa-dude dept.

mrpg writes:

A puff of this, and the world transforms into a colorful kaleidoscope of dancing patterns and waves of sound; a sip of that, and the muscles in your body relax like jello.

We know different drugs make us experience the world around us in very different ways — and their after-effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce.

So what exactly are these drugs doing to prompt these feelings?

[Ed. Note: the rest of this article is infographics.]

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Original Submission

• The effects on spiders (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:08PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:08PM (#476996)

  Effects on spiders:
  https://priceonomics.com/a-brief-history-of-spiders-on-drugs/ [priceonomics.com]
    http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/07/06/weekend-diversion-spider-webs-on-drugs/ [scienceblogs.com]

  Not surprised the higher dose of caffeine is so bad for spiders since it's fairly toxic to insects and snails.

  The lower doses of caffeine apparently aren't as bad to spiders.

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