Tag: Drugs
Caffeine is a strong stimulant of the xanthine class. Naturally occurring, it’s the world’s most commonly consumed upper. Religions even exempt caffeine from restrictions on intoxicants because no one would worship a god that didn’t let you have a tea or a Coke. Caffeine is an addictive psychostimulant drug. It’s not known exactly how many […]
If you don’t know what a Quaalude is, find an old person — anyone who would have been in their teens and twenties in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Ask them about “ludes.” If you can’t, read on. The chemical name for Quaalude (“kway-lewd”) is methaqualone (“meth-uh-kway-loan”). Methaqualone and its most common chemical relatives etaqualone and […]
What’s up with those 40,000-year-old cave paintings left behind by our earliest ancestors? The ancestors. They were high. On drugs. So claims a group of Tokyo-based researchers, after discovering that patterns commonly found in cave paintings throughout the world are remarkably similar to those produced by modern-day test subjects under the influence of certain “mind-altering” hallucinogens. […]
“Meet Charlie. He’s a stoner. And recently his job made him move cities, and he can’t find any dank buds.” What is Charlie to do? Why not get on Atlantis, the recently established deep web marketplace (think Silk Road) that promises total anonymity for buyers and sellers looking to traffic in all manner of controlled […]
In 2011, police officers arrived at Sunset Park’s Sunny 39 Hotel to an incredible scene. Two men–Felipe Rodriguez and Louis Marino–were in the third floor hallway wearing rubber gloves. One had a baton. When officer Annmarie Guerra asked what the pair was doing, Rodriguez was frank, explaining that he was a drug dealer, and the man […]
Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) — also known as MCAT and drone — is a powerful stimulant of the cathinone class. It’s that beautiful baby MDMA and cocaine would have together I mentioned earlier. While a constituent of “bath salts,” it’s better known in Europe as “plant food” and was readily available online. Mephedrone’s strong stimulation and high […]
In today’s fun-recreational-substances-that-may-also-have-medical-uses news, research published this week in Experimental Brain Research suggests psilocybin mushrooms may have positive effects for victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. The study, led by Dr. Briony Catlow of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, found that low doses of psilocybin eased conditioned fear in mice. A group of mice–some dosed with shrooms, some not–were […]
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tree native to Southeast Asia. The leaves are filled with dozens of alkaloids and quite a few are psychoactive. Mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine are the most important alkaloids in Kratom. They’re both opioids. Ethnobotanicals aren’t in the same category as MDPV or phenazepam but I’m starting to see too much false […]
Drug enforcement authorities in Washington are encountering an unusual but awesome problem after the state voted to legalize recreational use of cannabis last year: re-training drug dogs to “unsmell” weed. It’s not a requirement in the state, but departments in Seattle, Bremerton, and Bellevue have opted to either have veteran dogs go through unsmelling training or […]
Phenazepam or “da joose” is a benzodiazepine drug that expresses the 5 typical benzo actions: sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and muscle relaxant. In other words — chill out, go to bed, stop worrying, stop seizing and stop twitching. Phenazepam is just as dangerous as any other CNS depressant and is habit forming. Mixing it with […]
