Friday, September 10, 2004

shootin' up spider venom



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.

yes, o my em'lys and my henrys, it's a new world. a brave new world, where drug-crazed inmates create new pharmaceuticals from deadly poisonous spiders.

Here's the BBC story. Thanks to Boingboing for the link.

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