I can't have beer in my colony apparently...

[sick puppy]

i'm also curious how the heck animals inject luci and go juice
or how animals smoke flake and smokeweed
or how turtles snort yayo
or how they "take" wake up (however that might be)

Just about all smokable/snortable and most (but not all) injectable drugs are also effective when injested orally.  Ever heard of "pot brownies", as an easy example?

Eating most drugs generally causes slower onset of the "high" and it often lasts longer, as well.  Effects can also change; eating marijuana actually *increases* the effects of the drug, for example.

well, on the other hand drinking alcohol is much elss efficient than shoving it up your ass (and i am not even trying to be rude here, it's a real thing, apparently poor people get wasted this way regularly before going partying)

also, just like many poisons, not everything is remotely as strong when eaten than when used in other ways, as it has to go through your liver first. injections are way more efficient as it goes directly into your blood stream without passing through your liver, smoking, huffing, snorting makes you absorb it through your skin inside your body which has a huge area, that is also pretty efficient.

all i'm saying is eating mechanites (i assume luci is mechanites, as its description says you cant get it out of your body) should not be nearly as efficient as using it properly so it shouldnt work either.
and your example with space cakes is also easy to explain if you look at the sheer amount of weed in them and how much you eat. i am talking out of personal experience, i can eat a whole box of strong ass (and heavily weed-reeking) space cakes. on the other hand, it just takes me a few huffs of smoking the same stuff (and a joint has way less inside aswell) to get high as hell.

i dont have a problem with ambrosia, because you have to eat that stuff anyway. or chocolate. or eating smokeleaves (not the joints) which doesnt make animals high.

[XeoNovaDan]

Proper zone restriction will generally prevent animals from consuming drugs (including beer) most of the time; animals are coded to sometimes consume any edible item at random regardless of zone restriction or door forbidding.

[sick puppy]

Proper zone restriction will generally prevent animals from consuming drugs (including beer) most of the time; animals are coded to sometimes consume any edible item at random regardless of zone restriction or door forbidding.

wait what that is actually a thing? so my chickens will run out of the barn every now and then to go smoke a blunt real quick? wtf? no way that can be real.

[Bozobub]

well, on the other hand drinking alcohol is much elss efficient than shoving it up your ass (and i am not even trying to be rude here, it's a real thing, apparently poor people get wasted this way regularly before going partying)

Um, no.  In fact, alcohol enemas are FAR MORE efficient than drinking it normally; you absorb alcohol much faster through your rectum.  Convenience <> efficiency.

Injecting drugs is generally not much more efficient than eating them (although it can be); rather, it's merely [/i]faster[/i].  BOTH eating and injecting drugs, however, are generally more efficient than smoking them.

Snorting drugs is faster than merely eating them, but the lion's share of the effect is actually from ingestion (via post-nasal drip) after some is absorbed through nasal capillaries.  And eating marijuana requires *less* weed for the same effect, by weight, than smoking because the metabolic pathway is different and converts the THC to a stronger form along the way.  It's simple medical fact.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/smoke-vs-snack-why-edible-marijuana-is-stronger-than-smoking

[XeoNovaDan]

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wait what that is actually a thing? so my chickens will run out of the barn every now and then to go smoke a blunt real quick? wtf? no way that can be real.

Mhm, there's a chance. Unfortunately, the only way to completely stop animals from consuming drugs is to not have animals in the first place; zone restriction only basically mitigates 99% of all cases.