Mushrooms. Ganja. Methamphetamine - The Perfect Addiction - 43655. Citation: Hydrogenator.
"The Perfect Addiction: An Experience with Methamphetamine (ID 43655)". Erowid.org. Jun 20, 2006. erowid.org/exp/43655 I am a chemist. I have synthesized, extracted and tried many drugs. I don't mention this because I want to show off, but rather to convey that I am not a careless person, and that I have always taken precautions to assure my safety. As a teenager I had been prescribed Dexedrine (amphetamine) for attention deficit disorder, and experimented with crushing and snorting the tablets. Flash forward to my mid-20's. Every once in a while, when the chemistry that I am *supposed* to be doing isn't going well, I cheer myself up with an easy 'extracurricular' project. One lazy weekend I made about 25 g of pristine methamphetamine HCl, gave half to my friend (who had been waiting patiently the whole time), and put my half into a jar and forgot about it for almost a year.
Then for some unknown reason, I decided to pull that jar off of the shelf. Mr. X by Carl Sagan. By Carl Sagan It all began about ten years ago.
I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life - a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my social consciousness and amiability, a time when I was open to new experiences. I had become friendly with a group of people who occasionally smoked cannabis, irregularly, but with evident pleasure. Initially I was unwilling to partake, but the apparent euphoria that cannabis produced and the fact that there was no physiological addiction to the plant eventually persuaded me to try. My initial experiences were entirely disappointing; there was no effect at all, and I began to entertain a variety of hypotheses about cannabis being a placebo which worked by expectation and hyperventilation rather than by chemistry.
I want to explain that at no time did I think these things 'really' were out there. A very similar improvement in my appreciation of music has occurred with cannabis. Erowid. A Mystery Partly Solved: How the ‘Club Drug’ Ketamine Lifts Depression So Quickly. A new study sheds light on why the anesthetic and “club drug” ketamine can relieve depression rapidly — in hours, instead of weeks or months.
The findings may help provide new targets for developing antidepressants and increase researchers’ understanding of the devastating disorder. The study, published in the journal Nature, offer support for wider use of ketamine in depression and suggests new leads for scientists aiming to create fast-acting drugs with fewer side effects. A drug that could relieve depression quickly has long been sought by pharmaceutical companies and patients: for the 20 million Americans suffering from depression, the early weeks of treatment are a high-risk time for suicide, which kills nearly 35,000 people each year. The new research involved numerous experiments in mice aimed at teasing out what happens to both brain and behavior when ketamine takes effect. In one such test, mice were forced to swim in a water-filled tube that they cannot escape.
50 Ways To Leave Your Lager. Help to give up drinking alcohol. Www.textfiles.com/drugs/lsdnfo.txt. 13 Drugs Before They Were Famous. As a member of a generation of people who were raised being brainwashed by DARE and their ilk, I was pleasantly surprised to find out later in life that not all drugs are evil, and in fact, some are rather fun even though they are illegal.
What I didn’t realize was just how legal of a background so many popular drugs had, and often in ways I never would have imagined. 13. Coca Wine Initially marketed under the title Vin Mariani, coca wine was a popular tonic in the 1800s, pretty much the Victorian-era version of Red Bull, promising to pep you up, and keep you going. It was made from Bordeaux wine treated with coca leaves, and the ethanol in the booze helped extract the fun parts out of the foliage. 12. More than just a Roman camp in Asterix, laudanum — or more properly, tincture of opium — was a wildly popular over the counter medicine.