Excerpt from the article "MAY YOU NEVER SLEEP - Cognition Enhancing Drugs"
by R.U. Sirius, published in Whole Earth Review No.57 Winter 1987
EUPHORIA - Well, someone took Pemoline, twisted it around a little bit and
put a whole lot of pleasure into the equation. This might be a Dangerous
drug! There are lot of different things that seem to happen with Euphoria.
The first time I took it (40 milligrams - I've learned since that 25 mg. is
considered your basic dose) I got really charged up. This is definitely a
High and it comes on suddenly (about 45 minutes after ingestion). My first
response upon coming on to it was an experience of an intense rush of
perceived personal power. I found myself goosestepping down the busy Berkeley
streets thinking about how good I felt, how successful I was destined to be,
and knowing that the world was my oyster. After about 15 minutes of this as
I found myself leaping down the BART escalator, I had to tell myself to slow
down for fear that I would be completely drained later on. Although I didn't
really slow down at all during this experience, I did bring myself into a
somewhat more humane mindset and I spent the subway ride having an almost
methoxylated amphetamine (MDMA, MDA, etc.)-type ideations. In other words, I
wasn't just feeling good about myself, I was feeling good about most
everybody else. The world was everybody's oyster.
Arriving at my office, I immediately found myself doing organizational work
at about three times the normal rate with far more self-assurance and fewer
mistakes than usual. Simultaneously, I was entertaining perspectives on the
nature of my true will and making important phonecalls which I had put off
for some time. I did about thirty hours worth of work in about ten hours. I
literally could not stop. I tried to make myself take a break for about ten
minutes. Within a minute, I found my hand going into a drawer to pull out
another file which needed reorganizing. Believe me, this is very unusual
behavior. I hate organizational work.
This all might sound like the first blushes of an amphetamine high, but
he emotional overtones and the mentation under this substance is of a softer
and more inwardly whole (less alienated) quality. As I've already indicated,
the Euphoria high seems to have a slight methoxylated amphetamine quality to
it. All in all, this was a very powerful experiencing of clarity,
self-assurance and cognitive ability. The following day, I experienced the
same sort of effects at about one-third the intensity. There was no burnout
at all in aftermath.
Subsequent experiments have shown Euphoria to be predictable as an effective
tool for organizing binges, brainstorming sessions and radio talk-show
appearances. It also seems to induce ongoing personal growth in terms of
clarity of personal will. (I've received three other testimonies in this
same direction.) As a writing tool, I've found Euphoria to be variable. It
seems that verbal acuity comes on strong but the verbal circuits burn out
quickly from intensity of use and one has to move on to less verbally
oriented tasks. In other words, this is generally good for creative flashes
and outlining grand syntheses but not too good for actual completion of
written work. It gives one an impatience for minutiae and the kind of
careful faceting that it takes to bring a work to completion. In terms of
appreciation and comprehension of aesthetics and information, this seems the
opposite of its close cousin Pemoline. The accessing mode favored is
visual. One wants to explore a painting or photograph or watch a movie
rather than read a book.
My only complaint about Euphoria is that it lasts 16 hours, which feels
about 4 hours too long. In two of my five experiences, the last four hours
were spent feeling slightly "headachy" and weary, although there was still
no burnout following sleep. I would say, at this point, that Euphoria should
not be used more often than once a week since it is so powerful and so much
energy is expended in the experience. This is easily the most Fun of the
intelligence increasers and, as such, is probably the most likely to be
abused.
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It is available in all larger urban areas, but is not common. You need to
be pretty well connected to get it.
Boiling point is very low. You can smoke it by placing about 10 mg on
aluminum foil, and holding a lighter under the foil to warm it. It
vaporizes into a white cloud, and you suck the smoke through a tube
or something to help catch all the smoke. It comes in a white powder, and
looks similar to good white heroin. I think it would be hard to
adulterate, unless you adulterated it with something that also vaporized
very easily. Ie, if you aldulterated it with sugar, the Aminorex would
evaporate first, then the sugar would just burn, and you would be aware
that you got burned.
Not many side effects. If you do a large amount for several days you can
get diareaha. Nothing too severe though. A bit of dry mouth is common
after smoking it. I also started to get a sore throat after smoking for
a solid week.
I developed somewhat of a tolerance after 4-5 days of constant use. A few
days off, and the tolerance seemed to disappear. My brain was so clear
when I used this, that I came up with answers to problems that had been
bugging me for months. This stuff makes your brain work at 100%
efficiency and doubles processor speed. It makes you feel (and probably
actually does) like your IQ jumped quite a bit. It is kind of a bummer
not doing it at the moment because my brain feels so slow now in
comparison to before. A gram would last you anywhere from a week to a
month depending on how much you do. I estimate one hit at 10 mg, so a
gram would give you 100 hits. 2 hits makes you feel alert. 5 hits makes
you euphoric and will let you stay up all night long without feeling the
least bit tired. Sleep will never even occur to you. Do 2 more hits in
the morning before work, and you will never miss the sleep from the night
before. As a matter of fact, you will feel better than if you had skipped
the drug and slept all night!
