{"id":45086,"date":"2026-05-01T03:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45086"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:06:40","slug":"scientists-gave-cocaine-to-salmon-and-you-will-absolutely-believe-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45086","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cocaine-fueled-wild-salmon-swam-twice-as-far-as-sober-ones\/?utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_042326_PAID&amp;bxid=5dfac0863f92a458a45dfe60&amp;cndid=20773990&amp;hasha=a014c29e767b1f4c925071fc429b3684&amp;hashc=a199d1a12789b63955272bdb61e15fa661bd9e53a8935d821e3b193416c28ac1&amp;esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/science_salmon_drugs_GettyImages-147521591.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:245px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cocaine-fueled-wild-salmon-swam-twice-as-far-as-sober-ones\/\">Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1611,490],"class_list":["post-45086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cocaine","tag-fish","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45089,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086\/revisions\/45089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}