"Black Mamba Ultra" AM-2201 Spice Experience (It's Bad)
I bought 3g of Spice named "Black Mamba Ultra" blueberry flavour at a head shop in Camden (I think it's okay to say "I", Spice is legal where I live [United Kingdom]). Did some Googling before taking it, though there wasn't much information about this exact blend... Found it hard to come across a source talking about dosage, but I managed to find one which suggested 0.5g.
So using my Proscale I weighed out 0.5g exactly and put it into my pipe (by the way how do you measure herb dosages out, because the stuff spills out all over the surface of the scale and it's nearly impossible to pick it all off)... Lit it up and away I went. I had limited knowledge of how to inhale etc with a pipe. First intake felt harsh and I coughed hard, a mist spluttered out from my mouth, it was like when I saw someone else take cannabis for the first time. The flame went out so I just repeated the process and relit. Another intake and the same thing happened, managed to get some then coughed a load of smoke out... The effects kicked in a little bit here, but it didn't feel like much. It didn't feel like what SWIM who took cannabis felt like, though with my research I realized it was meant to replicate cannabis so I concluded I would take another hit. I must have smoked about 3/4 of it by now. I took a final hit, and this time followed advice I had heard to hold the smoke in. Breathed in from empty lungs and held it in for 5 seconds (I was trying for 30, feel free to laugh at my feeble attempt)...
It goes downhill now. As I move I notice things feel trippy, for the first few seconds I am like "woaaaaah :D", but then a couple of seconds later my head felt
VERY heavy and it soon turned into "oh... fuck... shit
!" My legs buckled and I collapsed, I managed to crawl along to the wall and prop myself up. My heart was going insane, not just fast or slow, it was convulsing. It kept stopping, then going again really quick like it was trying to make up for all the beats it missed. My grip on consciousness felt weak. I know about panic attacks having grown up with them somewhat (I can stop myself from having them from practice and experience), so I allowed myself to relax, but my heart and breathing was still steadily deteriorating so I decided I was in legitimate danger and went into full panic-attack mode again. I grabbed the phone out of my pocket. I contemplated calling 999 but instead decided to keep that as a last resort and called my friend. I had thought it was a totally safe drug like cannabis but realized at this moment that in reality it's some random-ass chemical (I had no idea what chemical was in this blend until later) doing BAD things to me. My friend picked up and I was like "hello... *fast heavy breathing*... hello... can you text me every 5 minutes, if I don't reply... *fast heavy breathing* call an ambulance". He was freaking. He was like "what did you do?! Are you dying?!" This frightened me a bit because truthfully I wasn't sure, so I told him "I don't know..." in the end he stayed on the line with me and kept talking so if something happened he could dial 999 for me. All the conditions were slowly worsening. The whole time my voice was involuntarily shaking in time with my irregular breathing. On breath intakes my pitch was rising and then lowering on out breaths, so I sounded very weird. My consciousness was also weakening, but it was kinda strange because it kept dipping then coming back up, like one second I'd get VERY heavy and tunnel-visioned as fuck, then the next I'd sort of snap out of it a bit, and it would alternate between these.
About a minute later I started getting this HORRIBLE feeling in my chest. It was weird. It was like I could feel one of the arteries/veins/something extending up towards my aesophagus (sp?), whenever it pulsated I felt pain, and in a way felt similar to a dull electric shock. However I had stopped coming close to losing consciousness and felt more grounded (still heavy headed and tunnel vision but not "dipping" as frequently). This relieved me somewhat despite the horrible heart feeling. This just about sums up the experience I had because from here on out it was just me tolerating the heart feeling but gradually coming out of the "near-death" esque feeling. I ended the call with my friend. This was about 4 days ago. I am still experiencing shortness of breath (I have to take very deep breaths all the time and shift my body because I have discomfort around the chest intermittently).
Sorry if this sounds pathetic because I know AM-2201 isn't considered a "hard drug" or anything, but I haven't ever experienced anything that felt as life-threatening as that before. I would personally recommend that nobody touches synthetic cannabis because SWIM has tried real cannabis which is much more pleasurable, and more importantly, much SAFER.
Another user with a bad experience here:
http://www.thctalk.com/cannabis-for...amba-legal-high.-the-key-to-the-gates-of-hell.
If anybody likes this stuff then cool, my guess is I did something wrong, possibly even overdosed, but personally I don't think I would ever chance touching the stuff again and this is just my experience.
