Ketamine

WHAT IS KETAMINE?

Ketamine hydrochloride was originally created for use as a human anaesthetic, and is still used as a general anaesthetic for children, persons of poor health, and by veterinarians. It is considered a "dissociative" anaesthetic, due to its ability to separate perception from sensation. It has strong pain relieving properties as well, and usually comes as a liquid in small, pharmaceutical bottles. It is most often cooked into a white powder for snorting.

WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS?

At lower doses it has a mild dreamy feeling similar to nitrous oxide (laughing gas). You may feel floaty, slightly outside your body, and may feel some numbness in your extremities.

Higher doses produce a hallucinogenic (trippy) effect, and may cause you to feel very far away from your body. This experience is sometimes referred to as a "K-hole" and has been compared to a near death experience, with the sensation of rising above one's body, inner peace, and radiant light. Many users say these experiences have a spiritual significance, while other find it frightening.

While in a K-hole it is rather difficult to move. Most users remain seated or lying down during the experience.

WHAT IS THE DOSAGE?

If snorted, a dose of 200mg (a small line) is usually enough to find the K-hole. The effect comes on within about 5 to 10 minutes.

If injected into muscle, a dose of 100mg is usually enough. (Ketamine is never injected into the vein). Effects can be felt within four minutes.

If swallowed, Ketamine can make you fell nauseous, and the effects come on in 10-20 minutes.

Occasionally K has been sold in a capsule as "Ecstasy," although it is nothing like MDMA (real ecstasy). An ecstasy testing kit can be used to screen against some fake ecstasy tablets.

BE CAREFUL!

While low doses of Ketamine can increase heart-rate, higher doses depresses consciousness and breathing and is dangerous to combine with downers like alcohol, Valium or GHB.

Frequent disruptions in your consciousness can sometimes lead to neurosis.

Ketamine can cause a tremendous psychological dependence. The dissociation from one's consciousness experienced with ketamine (entrance into "K-land") can be highly seductive, and there are many cases of ketamine addiction.

Ketamine is illegal and possession can result in long prison terms.