My friends and I recently (few months back) happened across a place to get it in abundance, as such we went through about 50 grams of it (selling a bit her
It was marketed as a legal high on an Aussie website which has since closed down.
Although, the legality is in question, I think here in Australia it's illegal because it's an analogue of 'cathinone' and 'methcathinone'...
I've got a lot of personal experience with this drug, not only my own personal use, but seeing how it affected my friends and other people I passed it on to.
The first time I heard of it was when my friend said "Hey man, I've got this new legal high, it's a powder.'
I didn't really think a legal high in powder form was ever going to be worth it, he told me that it was pretty good, so I did indulge.
The first time I took it, I took a few dabs of the stuff (this was the lab stuff, 99.98% pure) and it tasted every bit of that...terribly piquant (read: bitter as shit) and smelling like a factory full of chemicals (a smell which has firmly ingrained itself in my wallet and just won't go away).
I was in a group of about 5-6 that night, and met people throughout the night. The first thing I noticed was the empathetic qualities of MDMA coming through, the jibber-jabber mechanism started up and everyone was talking and divulging their secrets, fears, desires and what not...as if there was no such thing as an 'inhibition'. So it worked, it was like MDMA in that manner...but with a much less euphoric high. I really only needed the dip of a finger (150-200mg) to get high, and for an hour or so once it was down my gullet.
My first thoughts on this were that it had the chatty and slight-lovey effects of MDMA, but with the confidence boosting aspects of coke - without the arrogance.
Cokestasy seemed like a good enough term for it.
Then we discovered snorting.
The slightly crystalline fragments hurt like a motherfucker going up - but with enough it took me back to my first E, or MDMA experience...my brother walked around with his eyes bulging the first time, unable to really talk...just to experience this overwhelming, mind-numbing but 'oh-so-great' feeling.
The problem is, as with most other insufflated goodies, after 20-30 minutes the feeling was down to near-baseline whereafter re-insufflation was in order - and often.
The first time I had it, my friend who originally bought it told me that no more than 400mg a day.
Another problem with it is, as other people have stated, it is so very moreish. The first night my brother tried it (was a Monday, nice night for it huh?) and we sat watching TV with such an incredible buzz (I never normally abuse anything, but this felt so good...slipping into junkie-dom because what I was doing was legal...).
The catch-phrase that night was "Wannanotherline?". So yes...the bag he bought for the weekend that night slowly turned into an empty one, he got two more after that...and we dipped into that.
The levee has run dry now, the website closed...I haven't looked into getting it any other way, because...frankly...I do like the stuff, but it's worrying at how much you can take, and how much more you want.
I'm normally a very controlled person with any substance, I've never been addicted to anything...and here I was in the grasp of what felt like that.
There was about 500mg of this stuff left until last weekend...and it's now completely gone, I wave fondly goodbye to Mr Four-Em-Em-Sea and remember the good times I had, but also the scary amount that could be gone through...and re-dosing almost futilely every 30 minutes or so, just to kick-start a buzz that was never quite going to be as big again.
People here also seem to have had different reactions to it also.
My three core friends who tried this, we all had the same sort of experiences with it. The first time another friend tried it, his eyes just would not close - not anymore than a 'deer in headlights' anyway. He had about 2 beers that night, and wouldn't get in anywhere else for the rest of the night.
Another friend who tried 'dipping it' with the finger, he said that it rivalled MDMA, he told me that it almost made him feel bisexual...(curiouser and curiouser).
Closing thoughts:
It feels easy to do it on any night of the week that people are going out, it seems to be the perfect addition to a few drinks, a nice social buzz...a couple of friends also note that when they've been on it, the confidence seems to shine through in a natural way...which lead to them managing to hook-up with some fairly decent young ladies.
It also didn't feel like I had acquired a heavy tolerance, slightly diminished perhaps, but not entirely noticeable at times.
However, I don't think I'll ever swim in the 4mm-Sea again...
Just remember, be careful...don't take more than you can handle...even if you think you can.
Snorting is a good way to get really fucking high, but it's also a really good way to make your nose bleed (especially with the pure stuff) and to Crave (with the capital C) like a dope-fiend with nothing to lose.
Cheers.
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