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Cats On Acid...That's Right: Cats On Acid
Topic Started: Aug 9 2015, 11:44 PM (157 Views)
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....apparently back in the 70's they actually experimented on felines with LSD....weird. Just. Weird.

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(VICE News) Today acid is just one of many drugs humans take because they are having a bad time being sober. People drop it at the ​Kentucky Derby to make a weird experience weirder, they use it to ​quit smoking, they store a bunch of it in their houses and ​treat it as art. But back in the 60s and 70s Lysergic acid diethylamide was considered a chemical compound worthy of serious study by scientists and philosophers alike, which is why Dr. Barry Jacobs gave it to cats.

Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university's psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?

In a ​series of ​articles published in pharmacological journals, Jacobs detailed the experiments, which involved administering between ten and 50 micrograms/kg of LSD in a number of felines over the course of several months and observing their behavioral responses. Dosing animals with psychedelics wasn't really a novel concept (monkeys, dolphins, and an ill-fated elephant named Tusko were also been subjected to ​LSD-related research), but the cat studies at least lent support to existing theories about drug tolerance and, more importantly for Jacobs, the function of a specific serotonin receptor that's thought to be the "critical site of action in producing hallucinogenesis" for drugs like acid.

As far as ethics are concerned, there's no denying that spiking Lucy's water bowl with mind-altering diamonds seems like a project for a particularly perverse slacker in a Judd Apatow movie, but Jacobs maintains that the animal subjects were treated humanely and cared for by a scrupulous group of experts in a controlled environment. To get some insight into the findings, I called Jacobs at his Princeton office to ask what he learned from watching cats trip all those years ago.

--Read more: http://www.vice.com/read/we-talked-to-the-doctor-who-gave-lsd-to-cats-122?utm_source=vicetwitterus
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