UK researchers feed animals cocaine, ecstasy, meth, and pot

Compliments of K9 Magazine we get this gruesome report of millions of dollars being wasted testing illegal drugs on innocent animals simply to fuel the propaganda mills. In addition to giving dogs lethal doses of speed, some of the more creative tests included the following:

The BUAV's research uncovered that at least £1.6m of taxpayers' money has been spent by scientists conducting illegal drug studies such as addicting rats to cocaine at Cambridge University.

In another study at Cambridge, paid for by taxpayers' via the Government funded Medical Research Council, rats were driven mad through enforced isolation so scientists could then test the effects of speed (amphetamine) on their ability to carry out simple tasks.

A separate set of studies at Cambridge saw researchers conducting frivolous tests including giving a combined lethal dose of crystal meth (full name methamphetamine) and loud music from the composer Bach and the pop group The Prodigy to see if it would induce death.

Meanwhile, the report reveals that Birmingham University gave rats cannabis to see if it increased their hunger – an outcome already well-documented in human evidence and commonly known among students as 'the munchies'. Our estimates show this experiment could have cost the university up to £100,000 to carry out based on average costs of such studies.

I realize that this is a lot of quoted text, and that giving animals lethal doses of drugs and driving them insane is just plain inhumane, but descriptions of rats with munchies on meth running mazes while listening to loud Prodigy music on taxpayer money somehow tickles me way deep down inside. Check the story for reports of more crazy studies, including the effects of having animals swim through milk while high(?). One can only wonder what insights might be revealed if they could teach these animals to play "Grand Theft Auto"...