Ok bear with the quality of my report as I'm still getting used to writing reports and I find it hard to write comprehensive reports of experiences even when straight.
I'd smoked crystal meth (hereafter Ice) on 2 previous occasions; one time had been a very low dose (enough to feel it, but not judge the effects); the 2nd time I had too much and ended up lethargic, moody etc. as some people do when taking too much amphetamines. I'm quite experienced with methamphetamines in other forms and methods of administration however. I have eaten meth paste (also called gack, ox blood) on 25+ occasions. What most people call meth in Australia is a brown, gooey substance, containing small crystals sometimes, depending on how warm it is. I have also done base on about 8 occasions, when saying base I refere to a opaque, again gooey, substance that is usually cut with glucose to make speed. From what I understand base is roughly as pure as ice, but in a different form (freebase vs. salt maybe?) so it cannot be smoked.
I arrived at my friend's party at around 8pm, I had not been to a house party in some time, and had never taken drugs at one before. My friend is a very experienced tripper, roller and raver. The house parties I'm used to are from back in my school days, when a whole bunch of 17-19 year olds sat/stood around a house, drinking alcohol, having sex with whoever was willing, and causing fights. I knew however, that this one would be different, and I was right.
The first thing I noticed was that there was an already inflated jumping castle in his back yard, he had obviously put a lot of effort into this party. He had DJs, decore, a dance floor, indoor and outdoor heating, and plenty of free alcohol and food. There were roughly 15 people there already when I arrived and we were expecting many more. I was already slightly under the influence of alcohol (3 beers) and figured I would have a few more before everyone arrived and polished it off. By 10.30pm (when I decided to stop drinking) I had consumed 3 more, and while I wasn't uncontrolable, I was certainly quite drunk.
I am currently trying to stop my mdma usage, as has been out of control recently, and seem as I had 1 pill left from the previous week (this was my first weekend off mdma) I thought I would give it to the host of the part, as he had shared plenty of free substances with me before. There were already quite a few people there, and some of them were not drug users, so we thought it would be rude to do the pill in front of everyone (his prefered method of administration in nasally, and I like to be with someone when they take something if I'm giving it to them, even if I'm not having any myself). Me, him and a couple of others who wished to snort things all decided to go into his bedroom to rack up lines. When we got in there one of the other guys who had some speed (base cut with glucose) decided that as I was shouting the host, and not doing mdma, he would shout me some speed. I was very grateful and did roughly 3/4 of a point in one 'bump' (from the effects I got, I reckon it was about 2/3 base to 1/3 glucose). It was enough to get me energetic, improve my mood, get me chatting, and moving around the party more.
By the time we had all railed our various substances and gotten back to the main party, the numbers had increased to 60 or 70 and my 3 best friends had arrived. They knew straight away I was on something, and due to their worry about my mdma usage, their first words to me were "you better not have taken pills". As soon as I started talking to them though, they knew I was not lying when I told them I had not, no 'messiness' of mdma. Over the following couple of hours (I stopped paying attention to time for a while at this point), I talked to a bunch of people, some new people, some old aquaintances I had not seen for a while, and eventually worked out what drugs were going around. There were plenty of pills, which I was not doing for aforementioned reasons; there was plenty of weed, which I don't enjoy, so I passed on that also; there was plenty of acid, due to my inexperience with acid, and not knowing a vast majority of the people there, and I had already taken amphetamines (acid amplifies the paranoia of amps for me), I chose to opt out of that too. At this stage I was starting to think I may have to go straight for the night, I was really hoping some GHB/GBL/1,4B or some coke would become available. Unfortunatly, they did not, but it was not long (my guess a little after midnight) until I discovered that someone had arrived with some ice. Due to my previous experience with ice, I was hesitant to get any, but after confirming that there was no chance of other drugs arriving, I decided to get a point.
I was lucky enough to have a friend there who was an experienced smoker (weekend only however), he also had a glass pipe. Another friend of mine who had smoked a couple of times before decided to get a point too. In the end all 3 of us purchased a point each, and decided we would share it all. Rather than smoking it all at once, we decided to put a point in each time we smoked, and pass the pipe after each puff (there 1/3 of a point each time we smoked). We once again decided it would be rude to do it in front of non-drug taking guests, and made use of the hosts bedroom again. We didn't take long to get through the first point, and after 2 or 3 puffs each, we went out to the party again. For a minute I thought I hadn't smoked enough and was not high, but very soon I noticed the much more subtle effects of the ice. The small amount of 'messiness' of the base and alcohol dissapeared instantly, my head was clearer than it had ever been, I felt like I could do anything on this drug. I had plenty of energy, but unlike oral/nasal amphetamines, I could focus my energy into whatever I wanted. I could sit down and talk to someone intently if I wanted, I could get up and dance if I wanted, or I could run around the party going from one thing to another like I would have on base if I wanted. I also found it to be an extremely effective social enhancer, while it did not open me up - in the same way mdma does - to talk about deeply personal things to complete strangers, I had no problem holding up a conversation about any topic, with any person.
Around an hour and a half later, the 3 of us decided we would smoke another point. This was when I first got an inkling for how addictive this drug could be, even though I was at a very nice high, and knew I didn't need anymore at this point, I WANTED more of it. Even though I had a slight nagging at the back of my head that this was a good way to turn into an addict, I went to the room with them, and we smoked another point. I found the clarity was not quite as much as before, but the other effects were heightened. I spent more time dancing, chatting, mingling etc.
It was about 5am when we all decided we would finish off our last remaining point, it took a while to smoke this point however, as someone had snapped the glass pipe, and we had to make a pseudo-pipe from a lightglobe. It was around 5.30am when my friend passed me what I could see would be the last hit from the pipe. My two friends suggested that as they were leaving soon, but there were still plenty of others staying around, that I save the last little bit for later when I needed it more, and I was about to do so. My better thinking got to me though, I thought it would probably be a good idea to end it all there and then, and not prolong the length of the binge (a good way to get addicted), so I smoked the last little bit, and was done with it.
The numbers thinned down, and by 9am when the last person with any sort of skills with DJing quit and we put on a CD, we were down to about 20 mates (everyone was close friends with at least one other person, and was friends/aquaintances with everyone there). Everyone left was either smoking weed, tripping on acid, or just getting drunk. Personally I was still plenty high enough on the ice, and continued buzzing around the party till about 10.30am. By 10.30 I had reached baseline, by I used a trick that had worked before, to avoid dropping below baseline1, for another couple of hours.
It was only when everyone else's energy dropped well below baseline, that I started to actually come down. At roughly 3pm I went home, and felt very physically depleted for the rest of the night (yet I wasn't able to sleep until about midnight). I didn't get the paranoid comedown that many experience, however I did notice minor OEVs (patterns and trails) when my eyes were understimulated for a short time.
When I woke up after sleeping for a good 8 hours, I actually felt quite 'normal'. I went to work that day and functioned fine. It is only now however, that I realise how easy it could be to become addicted, everytime that anything even remotely related to ice came up in coversation, or I saw someone doing something related, I wanted more. I wanted more when I was high, I wanted more when I was smoking, I wanted more when I was coming down. It's for this reason I made myself some rules to avoid addiction:
a) No owning my own pipe - I can only smoke with friends this way
b) Not having the number, or address, or an ice dealer - again I can only get it through friends this way, and when they are doing it.
c) Never allowing my binges to last more than 24 hours under any circumstance
d) Never smoking more than once a month under any circumstance
I only apply these rules to smoked, crystal methamphetamines, and I found it to be a completely different experience to oral or insufflated methamphetamines - in different forms.
Footnote:
1. The method I use for staying at or slightly above baseline without doing further drugs is quite simple: don't let myself come down. I noticed a lot of methods people used for enhancing/extending the highs of many drugs which were nothing but placebo, yet people would swear by them, and they would work. So I figured, with enough willpower, you can keep yourself for coming down to an extent. It works too. It never works however, when everyone around you is coming down/tired.
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Well I hope you like my report - any feedback or questions are more than welcome.
I'd smoked crystal meth (hereafter Ice) on 2 previous occasions; one time had been a very low dose (enough to feel it, but not judge the effects); the 2nd time I had too much and ended up lethargic, moody etc. as some people do when taking too much amphetamines. I'm quite experienced with methamphetamines in other forms and methods of administration however. I have eaten meth paste (also called gack, ox blood) on 25+ occasions. What most people call meth in Australia is a brown, gooey substance, containing small crystals sometimes, depending on how warm it is. I have also done base on about 8 occasions, when saying base I refere to a opaque, again gooey, substance that is usually cut with glucose to make speed. From what I understand base is roughly as pure as ice, but in a different form (freebase vs. salt maybe?) so it cannot be smoked.
I arrived at my friend's party at around 8pm, I had not been to a house party in some time, and had never taken drugs at one before. My friend is a very experienced tripper, roller and raver. The house parties I'm used to are from back in my school days, when a whole bunch of 17-19 year olds sat/stood around a house, drinking alcohol, having sex with whoever was willing, and causing fights. I knew however, that this one would be different, and I was right.
The first thing I noticed was that there was an already inflated jumping castle in his back yard, he had obviously put a lot of effort into this party. He had DJs, decore, a dance floor, indoor and outdoor heating, and plenty of free alcohol and food. There were roughly 15 people there already when I arrived and we were expecting many more. I was already slightly under the influence of alcohol (3 beers) and figured I would have a few more before everyone arrived and polished it off. By 10.30pm (when I decided to stop drinking) I had consumed 3 more, and while I wasn't uncontrolable, I was certainly quite drunk.
I am currently trying to stop my mdma usage, as has been out of control recently, and seem as I had 1 pill left from the previous week (this was my first weekend off mdma) I thought I would give it to the host of the part, as he had shared plenty of free substances with me before. There were already quite a few people there, and some of them were not drug users, so we thought it would be rude to do the pill in front of everyone (his prefered method of administration in nasally, and I like to be with someone when they take something if I'm giving it to them, even if I'm not having any myself). Me, him and a couple of others who wished to snort things all decided to go into his bedroom to rack up lines. When we got in there one of the other guys who had some speed (base cut with glucose) decided that as I was shouting the host, and not doing mdma, he would shout me some speed. I was very grateful and did roughly 3/4 of a point in one 'bump' (from the effects I got, I reckon it was about 2/3 base to 1/3 glucose). It was enough to get me energetic, improve my mood, get me chatting, and moving around the party more.
By the time we had all railed our various substances and gotten back to the main party, the numbers had increased to 60 or 70 and my 3 best friends had arrived. They knew straight away I was on something, and due to their worry about my mdma usage, their first words to me were "you better not have taken pills". As soon as I started talking to them though, they knew I was not lying when I told them I had not, no 'messiness' of mdma. Over the following couple of hours (I stopped paying attention to time for a while at this point), I talked to a bunch of people, some new people, some old aquaintances I had not seen for a while, and eventually worked out what drugs were going around. There were plenty of pills, which I was not doing for aforementioned reasons; there was plenty of weed, which I don't enjoy, so I passed on that also; there was plenty of acid, due to my inexperience with acid, and not knowing a vast majority of the people there, and I had already taken amphetamines (acid amplifies the paranoia of amps for me), I chose to opt out of that too. At this stage I was starting to think I may have to go straight for the night, I was really hoping some GHB/GBL/1,4B or some coke would become available. Unfortunatly, they did not, but it was not long (my guess a little after midnight) until I discovered that someone had arrived with some ice. Due to my previous experience with ice, I was hesitant to get any, but after confirming that there was no chance of other drugs arriving, I decided to get a point.
I was lucky enough to have a friend there who was an experienced smoker (weekend only however), he also had a glass pipe. Another friend of mine who had smoked a couple of times before decided to get a point too. In the end all 3 of us purchased a point each, and decided we would share it all. Rather than smoking it all at once, we decided to put a point in each time we smoked, and pass the pipe after each puff (there 1/3 of a point each time we smoked). We once again decided it would be rude to do it in front of non-drug taking guests, and made use of the hosts bedroom again. We didn't take long to get through the first point, and after 2 or 3 puffs each, we went out to the party again. For a minute I thought I hadn't smoked enough and was not high, but very soon I noticed the much more subtle effects of the ice. The small amount of 'messiness' of the base and alcohol dissapeared instantly, my head was clearer than it had ever been, I felt like I could do anything on this drug. I had plenty of energy, but unlike oral/nasal amphetamines, I could focus my energy into whatever I wanted. I could sit down and talk to someone intently if I wanted, I could get up and dance if I wanted, or I could run around the party going from one thing to another like I would have on base if I wanted. I also found it to be an extremely effective social enhancer, while it did not open me up - in the same way mdma does - to talk about deeply personal things to complete strangers, I had no problem holding up a conversation about any topic, with any person.
Around an hour and a half later, the 3 of us decided we would smoke another point. This was when I first got an inkling for how addictive this drug could be, even though I was at a very nice high, and knew I didn't need anymore at this point, I WANTED more of it. Even though I had a slight nagging at the back of my head that this was a good way to turn into an addict, I went to the room with them, and we smoked another point. I found the clarity was not quite as much as before, but the other effects were heightened. I spent more time dancing, chatting, mingling etc.
It was about 5am when we all decided we would finish off our last remaining point, it took a while to smoke this point however, as someone had snapped the glass pipe, and we had to make a pseudo-pipe from a lightglobe. It was around 5.30am when my friend passed me what I could see would be the last hit from the pipe. My two friends suggested that as they were leaving soon, but there were still plenty of others staying around, that I save the last little bit for later when I needed it more, and I was about to do so. My better thinking got to me though, I thought it would probably be a good idea to end it all there and then, and not prolong the length of the binge (a good way to get addicted), so I smoked the last little bit, and was done with it.
The numbers thinned down, and by 9am when the last person with any sort of skills with DJing quit and we put on a CD, we were down to about 20 mates (everyone was close friends with at least one other person, and was friends/aquaintances with everyone there). Everyone left was either smoking weed, tripping on acid, or just getting drunk. Personally I was still plenty high enough on the ice, and continued buzzing around the party till about 10.30am. By 10.30 I had reached baseline, by I used a trick that had worked before, to avoid dropping below baseline1, for another couple of hours.
It was only when everyone else's energy dropped well below baseline, that I started to actually come down. At roughly 3pm I went home, and felt very physically depleted for the rest of the night (yet I wasn't able to sleep until about midnight). I didn't get the paranoid comedown that many experience, however I did notice minor OEVs (patterns and trails) when my eyes were understimulated for a short time.
When I woke up after sleeping for a good 8 hours, I actually felt quite 'normal'. I went to work that day and functioned fine. It is only now however, that I realise how easy it could be to become addicted, everytime that anything even remotely related to ice came up in coversation, or I saw someone doing something related, I wanted more. I wanted more when I was high, I wanted more when I was smoking, I wanted more when I was coming down. It's for this reason I made myself some rules to avoid addiction:
a) No owning my own pipe - I can only smoke with friends this way
b) Not having the number, or address, or an ice dealer - again I can only get it through friends this way, and when they are doing it.
c) Never allowing my binges to last more than 24 hours under any circumstance
d) Never smoking more than once a month under any circumstance
I only apply these rules to smoked, crystal methamphetamines, and I found it to be a completely different experience to oral or insufflated methamphetamines - in different forms.
Footnote:
1. The method I use for staying at or slightly above baseline without doing further drugs is quite simple: don't let myself come down. I noticed a lot of methods people used for enhancing/extending the highs of many drugs which were nothing but placebo, yet people would swear by them, and they would work. So I figured, with enough willpower, you can keep yourself for coming down to an extent. It works too. It never works however, when everyone around you is coming down/tired.
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Well I hope you like my report - any feedback or questions are more than welcome.
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