another viewpoint
Well... Not sure if this will help, or even if its the same drug, but this is what I know about a substance we simply call cat:
Firstly, I'm from South Africa, and we call it plain out cat or if your dealers talkative, he'll call it methicathinone. Sold in small bankies, commonly in half gram (R100, usually crushed and fairly often cut) or gram sections (grams are normally still uncrushed, and its much easier to guess its quality in this form). Good cat is pure white, sold in lumps, crushes easily into a fine, fine powder, when rubbed inbetween two fingers will almost immediately disappear, tastes... Well, that's difficult to describe, basically it tastes harsh, a sharp taste that won't leave your mouth. When you snort it, it burns on the way up, will cling slightly to a nose hair, and iv always had an almost immediate mucus reaction to cat (yeah, that's snot running like crazy to the average folk).
SWIM's little ritual is to take a short plastic straw, use it as a scoop and shake out a line onto any none porous surface (not fond of mirrors, I'll admit. Close view of snorting aint exactly pretty
), if I'm feeling ceremonious, didn't lay it out neatly or if a few lines are cut out for different noses I'll use a card and make em skinny and about 3-5cm's long. Deep breath in, snort it up, then plug the nostril and massage it, then wet a finger and run it over the surface and lick your finger clean. If SWIM didn't crush it properly, or huffed a bit on the inhale, SWIM'll gob a finger and run it around the inside of the nose to either (as disgusting as it sounds) gather it up for oral ingestion or just to spread it around. Then the straw will be used to drink water through, rinsing it (cat has a habit of filming the straw, which means its dirty aswell as a waste), then some water will be splashed onto SWIMS face, with some poured up the nose and snorted till it hits the back of the throat.
After a line, I'll stand up, feel nothing till iv washed my face and stashed the baggy and the straw, and then I'll feel a short pull, a rush. Knees on occasion will disappear from my bodys map and everything will tilt sideways, vision included. Generally I just feel a small hum at the back of my head, which will come into full force the second I see someone and have the opportunity to talk, I'll then proceed to have a helluva conversation with them, until I get distracted. (Note: I mainly use cat at work, as I average roughly 110 hours at my workplace). If its not busy, and there's no clients, I'll start cleaning, polishing things, doing paperwork, planning new systems and projects, generally be a lil all star with all the cylinders firing and pumping out idea after idea. I'll do it tirelessly, relentlessly for roughly two hours, when I'll dip. If I'm socializing, I talk allot, with an unexplained need to share personal stories or information with anyone who happens to be there. And another thing, I can socialize or I can work, but I really struggle to multi task when I'm under the influence. To stay peaked, I'll redose every 2 hours (a constant mistake I make) which always drives me to a twitchy state (the biggest mistake you can make is to think of another line, as you struggle to dismiss the thought).
I always have a large meal before hand, since I know I can't eat while tripping. I won't carry cash with me, as I'll blow it or hand it out. I'll constantly drink sweet cooldrinks or fruitjuices (water tastes funny with cat still tickling the throat, and I always get an uber craving for sweet flavours) as you do burn up a bit, run at a high body temprature while not taking it easy and sweating generously, none of which you notice all that easily. I also pay close attention to my "twitches", which may be paranoidly paying too much attention to my nose or my jaw grinding left and right constantly (first time I used heavily I didn't know how to do it safely, and couldn't chew anything days after I came down as the jaw was a bit on the useless side).
Remember: stay hydrated, eat a large meal before a trip, if your tripping for a long period of time that will include normal mealtimes, invest in food supplements or find something you can get down your throat. I'd suggest having an aid to come down, either a roll up, some sleeping tablets or a few drinks, as they help break cats hold and allow you to sleep and eat easier (aswell as make the hangover a bit kinder). If you plan on tripping for awhile, make sure your stash is sufficient to last your or you can get more till you decide to come down, as an involuntary or sudden cut in dosage feels like HELL, leaving you a quivering paranoid wreck until it works itself out of your system.
Some other random things... Cat will sometimes be a tad yellowish, my theory is that this is simply ephidrine that didn't bond well with its base, and will turn into a almost gooey substance under any heat or handling. Just as potent as normal cat, much harder to get into your system nasally but superior if you drink it or smoke it.
Cut cat: the market I buy from has around 20 guys who buy from 3 main suppliers, and each supplier has his own source, which means the quality of the days batch depends on who, when and how much you buy. Its most commonly cut with chalk (nothing pisses someone off easier, that's for damn sure), salt or baking soda (thankfully, that's rare as it feels bloody terrible). These are easy to spot as they crush more difficultly, don't powder well, don't dissolve when rubbed between your fingers, tastes... Not like cat and when snorted, doesn't exactly burn and there's no mucus. When crushed in its baggy, cat will cling slightly to the bottom of the baggy unevenly, depending on your method of crushing, where as cut cat will coat the entire baggy in a chalky, grainy white powder. Beware of this, as either it'll just feel and taste like crap and won't do anything or will spin you into a shit trip that will constantly be a freak out as your dose did contain minor amounts of cat but larger amounts of other crap that just messes with you (in my experience I havnt found anything deadly, dealers don't wanna kill you, and mixing in common chalk is much cheaper and effective than actually going through the effort of adding another chemical)
Don't redose to often. Ever.
Taking cat is like overclocking your pc, your body gets much hotter, your heart beats faster, you burn through "fuel" pretty damn fast (remember, not eating means your not adding fuel and you then promptly lose weight bloody fast) yet don't slow down until you stop re dosing.
I wouldn't suggest mixing cat with ANY other substance, including booze, as the variables become too much and you can't accurately predict of the trips going to be safe or even enjoyable. I do, however, strongly suggest getting super goofed and then sleeping, as its the easiest and most effective way for me to sleep and eat, or if your not that way inclined, having a drink or two also breaks the cat focus and let's you sleep (yes, there's a difference between boozing and one or two drinks. With cat, boozing means hitting a club and partaking in large scale drinking games till you suddenly feel as if every jagermeister smalls into you at once and either pass out or have a bad experience)
I can't suggest a method of intake, as SWIM uses his nose. Cats been orally ingested, yeah, but always as a lines companion, and in a minor amount. smoking its been tried once or twice, if the baggy runs empty and I can't get more and I hit into a bad crash. Smoking it, if I may place an observation, doesn't take you up, but rather brings you back to middle for a few hours with minimal twitches and psychosis involved, but SWIMS not fond of smoking a powder so its never an option with regular dosing, but always handy to keep in mind as generally the last traces from a baggy is enough to get you lucid after three days of lines.
Mmm. What else have I observed that might help others... Always clean your nose, as a gunky substance builds up!
Oh. Never ever take a large dose. Cat is NOT easily noticed to psychotropic, and as such you'r inclined to forget your tripping, or believe you arnt when you well and truelly are. Think of it this way, you can be the eager beaver and sniff up a monster of a line and promptly condemn yourself to upto 6 hours the effects to actively dissipate aswell as a mean hangover for upto 3 days of torture, or you can take too little, wait an appropriate period of time to make sure and then redose and enjoy the effects of the substance. as most uppers, the more you use it the more you gotta use, but take careful note of the interval between redosing aswell as the amounts you use. I'd suggest for a first time user a forced once off dose (as soon as the euphoria of that first dose fades your going to want to redose, but should avoid it to observe its effects properly) , maybe an interval of 2-3hours for a regular user and 2 hours for a user who doesn't mind twitching, as long as he can complete a suduko in record time while color coding the local library and telling your life story to the 8 year old who asked what the time is.
Good news is though, your threshold re sets to normal as soon as week after using.
Caffiene the next day is a saviour, as your gonna feel pretty damn tired. Your also gonna go on a food binge, with the severity increased by the length of the trip.
Also, this stuff makes you constipated, as you eat nothing and crap less.
It does give you bad skin
You lose weight in a bad way, as in you use over a long period of time, irregularly or regularly, and will lose a good few kilos without noticing it.
And, to all the people who claim that it increases sexual desires or impulses, I completely and utterly disagree, as it makes me largely uninterested in sex.
Meh. Anyway, hope any of this helps? If there's gaps, or if I'm mistaken, or don't make sense fully, or you have a question that I might be able to either answer or find an answer to, post a reply (please don't PM as this is a public message board, and the general idea is that we share information, advice and opinions)
