Prisoners Breed Spiders for Venom High

SYDNEY, Australia - Inmates in an Australian prison have been caught breeding deadly redback spiders that they milked for venom to inject themselves for a high, according to government records.



Four spiders — with venom that can kill children and the elderly with a single painful bite — were found in Grafton maximum security prison in New South Wales state on Feb. 15, documents released Tuesday by state opposition lawmakers said.


Prison authorities suspect inmates found the spiders, which are common in Australia, in the prison nursery. They bred the spiders in jars, milked them of venom which they diluted with water before injecting, opposition Liberal Party justice spokesman Andrew Humpherson said.


"It just shows how comfortable they are — actually accessing and in this case breeding their own source of venom; their own source of drugs," Humpherson told reporters, in an attack on the Labor-led state government's law and order policies.

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...gives me a mello high. I shoot up a few times every weekend. It's not as rare as people think.

But then I started doing harder stuff, like toad, and concentrated Sour Patch Kid dust. So eventually I quit because it was all too much to take.

AmberDogDemocrat was asking me this morning about the properties funnelweb produces ????