Prisoners Breed Spiders For Venom High

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Prisoners Breed Spiders For Venom High

Sep 8, 2004 7:03 am US/Central
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) 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.

The Liberals accessed the state prison records under freedom of information laws.

The records also showed that a 16-inch marijuana plant was found growing in another prison in February.

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Spiders kept as pets, not drugs

Wed, Sep 08, 2004

Spiders kept as pets, not drugs

THERE was no evidence to support claims that prison inmates kept deadly redback spiders to inject their venom as an alternative drug source, the NSW Department of Corrective Services said yesterday.

Documents obtained by the NSW Opposition show four of the spiders were discovered in a container at Grafton jail in February.

Prisoners were suspected of milking the spiders of their venom and injecting it for a high.

But Department of Corrective Services spokesman Mr Brian Kelly said the inmate who suggested other prisoners bred the spiders for their venom was not credible.

“We did find spiders in a spider nest in a jar at Grafton in February,” Mr Kelly said.

“An inmate in that area said inmates were breeding them for their venom.

“But we found no evidence to support the information, no drug paraphernalia and through our processes we found that the inmates information was not credible.”

Mr Kelly said prisoners kept the spiders as pets.

“They would have found them, put them in a jar for curiosity as a pet which is quite understandable considering their situation,” he said.

“People have a lot of time on their hands in jail.”

Official records released by the opposition also show that authorities discovered quadruple the number of weapons found last year and double the amount of drugs including a 40cm high marijuana plant growing at Long Bay jail.

Authorities also found 55 “shivs” homemade knives and 78 other weapons, including sharpened paint scrapers and steel spikes, in the first quarter of this year.

In the same period last year, a total of 36 weapons was found by officers.

Marijuana finds increased from a total of 13g to 33.4g, while there were 46 discoveries of other drugs in early 2004.

Opposition justice spokesman Mr Andrew Humpherson said it appeared the States prisons “are more like a holiday farm than a prison system”.

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i saw this in the guardian, they didn't let on that it was nonsense tho:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1299388,00.html

Prisoners get high on spider toxin

AP in Sydney
Wednesday September 8, 2004
The Guardian

Prisoners in an Australian jail have been caught breeding redback spiders and milking their venom to inject into themselves as a narcotic.

Four of the spiders, who can kill a child or elderly person with a single bite, were found in Grafton maximum security jail, in New South Wales, according to prison records released by the Liberal opposition party in the state parliament.

The spider is common in Australia.

Andrew Humpherson, the party's justice spokesman, said the prisoners bred the spiders in jars and diluted their venom with water before injecting it. "It just shows how comfortable they are, actually accessing and in this case breeding their own source of venom, their own source of drugs," he told reporters, attacking the Labor-led state government's law and order policies.

The records, accessed under freedom of information laws, also showed that a 40cm (16in) marijuana plant had been found growing in another prison
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i wondered exactly what the psychoactive ingredient in red-back venom was... maybe that old song about a red-back on the toilet seat was actually primitive pschedelic folk tunage ;)

lmao :D
 
Originally posted by Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter

'this little bastid could knock you into a level4 trip!

WHOAH!!! easy fella!!

he's a bit upset, i'm gonna put him down now... WOW!!! didya see the venom on that? that right there would REALLY mess you up!
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Oh no! a crimanal has a venomous spider which he could not possibly have for any other reason than to get high with (i mean what else would you use a spider for?), quick throw the prisoner into maximum security confinment.... but a steady diet of cigarettes and sodomy is still A-OK as far as Justice is concerned....
 
after being stuck under a soda machine in a secret room, Captain Murphy aboard Sealab had only one campanion--a venomous spider. He reminded the spider each day to get his fix. Eventually he turned into a giant green muscular dude, similar to the hulk, and spoke simple sentences such as "Me Want Spider". Unfortunatly Benjamin (the spider) died from a blow to the..whole body after a sweeper bot got in a battle with him
 
It wasn't a spider on sealab, it was a scorpion. But really, how would you milk a spider of it's venom? And breed them.......come on.
 
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