you know the old studies
that probably anybody's ever taken an introduction a psych course
the learned from the forties where they pay
they crammed a rats into small in small cages and discover that at a certain
point the rats actually search eating each other
start you know the gods super aggressive and then ultimately they would even
becomes
Kabbalistic or at least eat their young there's a
%uh the second step to those experiments which
everybody is broadly familiar with um
and again probably don't even have to take intro to psych to get its
part of our culture and that's the story a rats that
and not just rats there this is done with it's been done with champs in other
animals too but the rats stories %uh the most famous ones
on animals well replicated
where they put a rat in cage in a given a little bar in a consult administer
food or consulted Minister morphine or heroin or cocaine
your choice and the rats were just keeps of administering the
the heroin or cocaine until they die they just
you know stopping interested eating and just are getting it should mean high
and the take away message to all that is gee these are terrible dangerous drugs
and therefore we need to have laws
against drugs his lawyers to put rats in a cage in game all here when they want
and pretty soon they're not even eaten
cannot reproduce in the 918 they're certainly not working they're not good
members of society
junkies well as the
late great Paul Harvey would say that's just half the story
and
I find this fascinating did the other two parts of the surf as the first ball
this is over Democratic Underground right now haces
meld Verde has posted at the headline is it's not the morphine it's the size the
cage
the part that's kinda funny about this is you know
do you know has ads maybe they always did I just
have recently noticed them a in the ad up at the top
up my particular one in and in a site the ads
typically reflected things that you're buying you know that you've bought
I think I told you the story I keep getting ads for for t-shirts
in and for customized mugs and things because we've
you know got that kinda stuff with what they can suffer website and so
gone shopping for things like a and they know what you're shopping for rent
and i cant say no thank God I'm not shopping for porn on the web
but in any case I its
it the the at the top is for d-conn solving rodent problems for over 50
years learn about now
but I think it's because the content of the story it's it's about rats
but here's a story a
I they they redid the rat study
only in this case instead of
basically tie in the rat to the little
tab in letting him have the food at the morphine or sticking a little tiny cage
they build this thing they call the rat Park I
Alexander bill Rapp parking 8
point 8 square meter there's 95 square foot housing colony two hundred times
the square footage of a standard laboratory cage
there is 16 to 20 rats about sexism residents in abundance of food balls
wheels for play
and enough space for May 18 and raising letters
rats who had been forced
to consume morphine hydrochloride for 57 consecutive days were brought to rat
Park
Cesar rats were already addicted and given a choice between plain tap water
and water laced morphine
but now they're no longer old trapped in this miserable little cage with the
miserable little life now there in the rat Park
for the most part
Alexander Road
they chose the plain water turkey rats
he said nothing we tried produced anything that look like addiction in
rats that were housed any reasonably normal environment
control groups are brats isolated in small cages
consumed much more morphine in this and subsequent
experiments in other words
our problem love addiction is not a problem with how
horrible addicted to drugs are or
even know how in some km you may eat maybe there's an argument for this maybe
not I honestly don't know but
let's say not even necessarily the fact that some of us are predisposed
to blog addictive drugs it's a problem in our society
to problems our culture we're living in the friggin rat cages
you wonder I you know now now the thing that would kinda contradict that is the
you know the occasional wealthy person a movie star whose a was an addict
you know famously well um but on the other hand
you know I'm not our a movie star wealthy person I've known a few of them
in
and that its own kind a rat cage
you're listening to the Thom Hartmann program
call 866 987 thon
so the takeaway from this is we should do a Portugal has done AD criminalize
all drugs and then be
build a strong social safety net so everybody lives
in a rat park