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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Octopus....fish, reptile or what?
Message-ID: <1049@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:16:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1049
Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:16:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:00:30 EDT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: White Cephalopods on dope


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>This leads to some curious speculations.  For example, it is quite
>possible that certain catecholamine-like psychotropic drugs (mescaline,
>MDA, "Ecstasy", amphetamines, ...) would "work" in octopi in a similar
>manner to the way they "work" in humans.  Of course, this would be hard
>to verify experimentally, since recording the subjective experience of
>an octopus is a difficult matter.  The prospect of dealing with an
>octopus on a bad trip must also give one pause :-O.
>
>-- 
>	Howard A. Landman

Well, that explains why the little buggers change color and 'melt' in your
hand. (But not in your moth).


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