Snails on crystal meth

[Tapewolf]

This may amuse:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/28/snails_on_crystal_meth/

EDIT:

"After a lengthy and painstaking period of sitting in the lab poking snails immersed in various different mixtures of pondwater and drugs, Lukowiak and Sorg report that in fact methamphetamine makes snails' memories much better."

[Ren Gaulen]

Scientific experiments. When snails get higher than Pope.

[Shachza]

It boggles my mind that this question wasn't answered sooner!

[Alondro]

I hope people don't think this would apply to humans.  Our receptor sequences and molecular conformations are quite different than those in invertebrates.  Chemicals that affect them in a certain way do not necessarily do the same things to us.

This is very apparent in pharmaceuticals.  Often compounds which don't seem toxic in mice have side effects in primates.  That is why rodents are primarily used for discerning mechanism of action, general metabolism of the agent, and gross toxicity data and not for evidence of clinical safety and efficacy.

[Turnsky]

I hope people don't think this would apply to humans. 

have you seen what meth can do to people? it's not pretty.

[Kafzeil]

My apologies if you have seen this before, but this is what instantly popped in my head.

[VAE]

My apologies if you have seen this before, but this is what instantly popped in my head.

This is soo utterly awesome!!!
I had my reproductor turned up quite low so i thought it was a real document until the automobile showed... i was even wondering about how the pictures conflicted with another (this time legitimate) experiment i saw about this.