Getting High on Spider (not Spyder) Venom

[Lane Meyer]

Yet another thing to add to the long list of things that make you high, from the BBC website (the last line of the article is my favorite part - how the FUCK do you hide that in a jail cell???):

BBC Story

Prisoners 'injected spider venom'


The redback bite causes nausea, pain, fever - and sometimes death
Inmates in an Australian prison are said to have farmed deadly spiders to use their venom as a narcotic.
Four redback spiders - whose bite could kill a child - were found in a jar at a prison in New South Wales.

Inmates were said to have milked the spiders for venom and watered it down before injecting it to obtain a high.

Opposition politicians said the prison records showed prisons were like "holiday farms", but prison officials said there was no proof of the claims.

The New South Wales prison records were obtained by the Liberal Party - the opposition party in the state - under freedom of information laws.

Andrew Humpherson, the party's justice spokesman, used the findings to mount an attack on the Labour Party-led state government's law and order policies.

"It just shows how comfortable they [inmates] are - actually accessing and in this case breeding their own source of venom - their own source of drugs," he told reporters.

The report showed the state's prisons were "more like a holiday farm", he said.

'Pets'

But a prison spokesman, Brian Kelly, was sceptical about the veracity of the claim the venom was used as a narcotic, saying it had come from a single unreliable inmate.

Mr Kelly said the spiders were more likely to have been kept as pets.

Additional records obtained by the opposition showed prison authorities found quadruple the number of weapons and double the amount of drugs in prisons last year.

A 40cm (16-inch) marijuana plant was discovered at another prison in February.

[surftb15]

now i dont needa spend 40 bucks on 1/8th.

[freshie247]

What ever happened to the good old days of houghing toxic chemicals?

[Ski Beaver]

Yeah, we'll do anything for a high.

[Game Over]

I just killed a Hobo spider with my one of my Arno's (would that be a Arno?)--anyhow it scared the shit out of me, I was just sitting here and saw it cruising on the wall. Thoes fuckers are fast and agressive. Not to mention what they do to ya when they bite.

[boarderline]

Originally posted by Lane Meyer


A 40cm (16-inch) marijuana plant was discovered at another prison in February.

I'd like to hear how the inmates pulled this one off.

[Will]

What... is pruno not good enough for them?

"Pruno does, in fact, seem to have some kind of alcoholic content. An odd burning sensation accompanies the first sip and the liquid gives off the tell-tale stink of booze goodness. In a place were violence is common and household cleaners double as anti-depressants, you can see why pruno is so very popular.

The only drawback pruno has, aside from its unappealing tannish-orange color, the white flecks of mold floating on the top and the smell you can't wash off, is its taste. For lack of a better

metaphor, pruno tastes like a bile flavored wine cooler. It tastes so bad, in fact, that it could very well be poisonous or psychedelic, which might explain the violence it induces in prisoners.

In the end, pruno stands as testament to the lengths man will go to in order to suckle on freedom's teat, even if it means getting food poisoning in the process."