Much as we lovethe present trend of sticking drug - molecules on everything from java mugs to thyroxin - shirt , we crave something new . Fortunately , scientific discipline - themed artistDelftiahas a novel take on elusive drug jewellery : pendants that replicate spider webs spin under the influence of psychoactive drugs .
The result of psychoactive drug on spiders ’ web - spinning ability were first document in the mid-20th century by Swiss pharmacologist P. N. Witt . The answer were visually spectacular , to say the least , as most drugs“[tended ] to have a disconfirming influence on connection regularity . ”
Witt ’s experiments have since pull quite the pursual . You ’ll find citation to them everywhere , fromcannabis.net , toUniversity webpages , tothe pages of the honored research journal Science , where investigation by pharmacologist J.A. Nathanson facilitate rekindle an interest group in Witt ’s findings in the mid eighties . In 1995 , Witt ’s studies were reprise by a inquiry group at NASA in a study that not only replicated Witt ’s original finding , but analyzed the spiders ’ webs with modern statistical methods . The report wound up declare oneself that spider WWW could be used to appraise drug toxicity .
These studies almost definitely owe a respectable deal of their grasp and staying might to the urge that they inspire – and it is an irresistible itch – to dissect what , if anything , these internet say about the the effects of the drugs themselves . Like a sedate spider , the figure of wandering , jumbled , and half completed webs seem to say , a sober human will bring about body of work that is elegant and orderly . On marijuana , however , a individual is likely to give up mid - job , too sleepy-eyed , hungry or disinterested to complete the business at hand . ( A factoid that inevitably pops up in online drug forums : Small doses of LSD really leave in more neat web . )
Anyway , back to jewellery : What ’s neat about sticking one of these spider webs on a necklace is the shade of it all . lot of people may be familiar with these experiments , but we ’re unforced to wager that their numbers are fewer than those who can distinguish the chemical substance bodily structure of caffein , or THC . ( Perhaps more relevant : Even if someone ca n’t tell you what chemical is hanging around your cervix , most people probably see a molecular diagram and call back : Chemistry ! ) What ’s nice about Delftia ’s necklace is that , even if someone has seen or heard about the WWW of drug - addled spiders , it ’s unvoiced to imagine them spot this necklace and say “ Hey ! That ’s the World Wide Web of a wanderer high on wad , is n’t it ? overnice ! ” More belike it ’ll be something like “ Why ’s that dreamcatcher reckon all rickety ? ”
All this is to say that replicating a wanderer web spin around under the influence of THC and make a necklace out of it – as Etsy drug user Delftia has done – is a new approach to subtle , in - the - know drug point of reference that we can totally get behind .
H / tMindy Weisberger
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