^ i love that line in that shitty movie 'reality bites' (if anyone remembers it) about how "Evian" is "naive" spelt backwards.
it freaks me out when people use bottled water for IV injection (for the reasons of microorganisms you mention above footsy).
water is a pretty fascinating topic, especially with the
obscene waste of single-use plastic bottles we have seen since buying bottled water became part of western culture sometime in the 90s. a very successful marketing campaign, if you ask me - as it is
practically free from the tap, yet other parts of the world, people
die from lack of clean drinking water.
yet we buy it in overpriced, colourful bottles that degrade and lose elasticity (releasing random molecules into the drink) if we reuse them? so hideously wasteful. it's like, this necessity for people to carry a bottle everywhere they go - especially jogging and shit 'fitness'. can't we just have a glass of water or two to stay hydrated? monkey-see, monkey-do if you ask this cynical ape.
as to the CWE question - i know very little about the science of these things, but is it possible that one of the minerals or additives (chlorine or whatever else is in there?) in tap water binds to the actives (reducing or altering solubility - or not allowing as much of the codeine to pass through the filter somehow)?
perhaps this is another hypothesis worth considering in this debate over tap vs bottled water?
there's also that amazingly powerful and scientifically proven
placebo effect that can always come into play.
just the right match in colours and designs in the pill packaging and the shades of blue on the water bottle that remind you of hard sweaty nights on the dance floor - and what do you know?! you're off your face!
like shopping malls are designed and lit to encourage our consumerist hunter-gatherer-hoarder urges, labels on consumer products are a study in design psychology all in their own.
psychological triggers - when it comes to reward pathways and colour associations - are powerful and lurk somewhere in our subconscious. so many factors when it comes to (home extracted) psychoactive drugs.
much like the batches of LSD (or whatever Owsley was selling in california in the mid-late 60s) that were the same chem, the same dosage - yet elaborate and well-known mythologies sprung up about which tablets were "chilled" and so fourth. the power of colour, the power of suggestion - and that beautiful old favouite of mine - the power of
set and setting!
it's also worth considering the natural endorphins your body has produced that day. i've had wildly unpredictably ecstatic highs from my daily dose of pod tea, codeine or whatever following (or followed by - like i say, it's very hard to reproduce these results) a day of exertion; a hurried bike ride or some good energetic sex - and low and behold, i'm high as fuck - euphoric and nodding, on just a 'normal' dose.
opiates are a strange beast. it's a bit like how people are more likely to overdose (with the same dose, the same batch, the same ROA they've done for years, etc) in an unfamiliar place than they are at home.
it is true that we can only speculate on why some things make us feel the psychoactive effects more than other things - like why i can have a lovely dose of pod tea, feel great at home then go out to a party and feel utterly straight.
when it comes down to it, that the human body, the human mind and associated biorhythms and neurochemistry are extremely complicated things and difficult to predict.
funny how the "
facts" get contradicted so frequently when it comes to matters of health and understandings of the body. to me "
facts" is one of those words that gets my bullshit detector on high alert to begin with.
when i'm not nodding out after a beautiful shag, that is
ahhhhh
