Are your teeth rotting? Have you sold all of your possessions and maybe even pilfered some possessions from your grandmother as well? Never fear, crackheads, you’re not alone. In fact, honeybees can commiserate.

The LA Times reports:

Cocaine repels most insects -- which is why the coca plant makes the chemical in the first place. But in a surprising new finding, U.S. and Australian researchers reported Friday that honeybees are susceptible to the drug's insidious lure.

 

They become addicted, and even suffer withdrawal symptoms when they no longer have access…

The bees grew tolerant of the drug, meaning continually higher doses were required to achieve the same effect. But if they were given it for a week and then refused access, they were severely affected, becoming much less able to learn new tasks, such as distinguishing between two scents, the team found.

My question is: who actually provided funding to the crackhead scientists who proposed giving crack to honeybees? And are these the same people that got us into the worldwide credit crisis?