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- Subject: Re: Cats and LSD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.075934.4336@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:47:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.200748.16776@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Dec30.020644.203434@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
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- In article <1992Dec30.020644.203434@uctvax.uct.ac.za>, brrian04@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
- > As far as I know wild animals (cats included) eat hallucinogenic plants on
- > purpose. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
-
- I read somewhere in a reputable source (which I cannot possibly recall)
- that hallucinogens are distinguished from other classes of recreational
- pharmaceuticals (e.g. uppers and downers) by the fact that given a
- button and a needle which delivers the drug, an animal (e.g. monkey)
- will _not_ repeatedly self administer a hallucinogen.
-
- Jeremy
- jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au (not this address)
-