Bees make lousy coke mules
(Beehives and coke: made for each other…!)
As I’ve stated many times before, I love scientists. I have to say though that I’m not so sure about this particular bit of research:
“They are highly social, adhere to a rigid class system and are intensely house-proud. And now it emerges that bees resemble human beings in one more, previously overlooked, respect: they behave just like us under the influence of cocaine. Australian researchers found that bees which had been given a dose of cocaine threw themselves into unusually energetic dance routines, felt compelled to “talk” to their nest mates - and even went “cold turkey” when the drugs ran out.”
That’s - and how to say this politely? - mildly interesting but the first question that pushed all the others out of the way like a coked-up bully, was, ‘Why the fuck would you want to give cocaine to bees, in the first place?’
I’m sure the Bolivian cartels are not so hard up that they need to find new markets for their product and I’m equally sure that there wasn’t that much demand for it either.
I don’t know many bees that, after a hard day’s graft in some advertising agency or on the catwalk, need a few lines of coke, to get the party juices flowing again.
In fact, you’d think that bees were about the last species that needed any type of drugs to get a buzz.
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