All those videos on Youtube of guys walking the streets naked
I suspect some of those videos don't involve PCP intoxication but PCP is taking the rap for it anyway.
tearing out fences and getting jiggy with it whilst screaming like baboons and fighting-off an entire paddy-wagon full of Cops, that’s happened to PCP!
Hahaha that description is hilarious! I think the concept of an old school paddywagon is both very British and funny as hell.
But you're right –
PCP was demonized in the 1970s, which were a peculiar decade. PCP was made into a boogeyman back before the fact-checking era of the Internet. The decade brought about dark things:a surge in serial killers, airplane hijackings, global terrorism, plus US presidential impeachment, the Iranian Shiite revolution, war and unrest in Vietnam, proxy wars, civil war in Cambodia, and violent hotbeds of conflict between Pakistan and India in Kashmir, the Palestinians and Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Northern Ireland conflict between the IRA and the UK began during that decade that started only 25 years after the end of World War II. So it makes sense to me that the scary legendary stuff from that era would be something like PCP, ya know?
Who on Gods earth would want to try that stuff after watching those videos…
That alone should be evidence that there must be something compelling and enjoyable about PCP or else virtually no one would use it. For example, this is, I think, why DXM is widely available over-the-counter. It sucks as a recreational substance and so no one wants it. Problem takes care of itself.
The PCP-induced psychosis state is more uncommon than YouTube would lead one to believe. If you practice responsible use + harm reduction strategies and are mindful of your dose, PCP can be a wonderful, compelling experience ranging from a kickass time with friends to a soul-searching spiritual vibe from another dimension. Like most dissos,
PCP is very dose-sensitive. And after all, dose makes the difference between a medicine and a poison, right?
I use PCP ~15x/year and have done so for the past 20+ years. Balance can be achieved, friends.
Drugs are only dangerous when used with ignorance or malice. Plus, there's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy at play; i.e.: people incorrectly believe PCP causes all of its users instant psychosis and
they subconsciously prep their own nervous systems to have a similar response.
Remember:
expectation is the thief of joy.
Tune out, turn off, drop in?
I've heard some older Bluelighters raving about how great PCP was when it used to be widespread.
To be clear, this hasn't changed –
PCP is still great. The myths and folklore legends about its supposed danger and ability to set off psychotic breaks have ensconced the drug in a mysterious cloud that is at once terrifying and alluring. Most people have no clue what its effects are even like and they've literally never seen the drug IRL.
Just off the top of my head, I can think of five different cities with some form of PCP on the streets – dust, dippers, sherm (on mint leaves). In my experience, the format preference for delivery seems to be regional with
sherm in NYC,
dippers in DC and Philly, and
powder "angel dust" in Oakland, but all types can be found in Southern California if you know the right people and can navigate your way through the right hoods.
One member I talked to calls it 'the Rolls Royce of dissociatives'.
Ha, I've heard this before and I
that nickname.
So I wonder why it seems to be non-existent these days.
I suppose it helps to know where to look. But I think it's a symptom of it having a sketchy reputation coupled with heavy criminal statutes and bad PR perception. I must say:
I enjoy 3-MeO-PCP and 3-HO-PCP as well and was glad to see them both on the RC scene. Wish they'd come back around… the other 3-substituted phencyclidine structural analogues just don't quite cut it for yours truly.
The media scare stories and freakouts don't seem any worse than meth or the pyrovalerone drugs, yet those are everywhere and plain ol' PCP is nowhere to be found.
I disagree. The
media scare stories and freakouts for PCP seem worse to me – distinctly unsettling and much more violent.
Pyrovalerone drugs – sad how often it's just a sensationalist guess, as was the case with that FL man who
ate some homeless guy's face and a cop on the scene told reporters he guessed it was "probably because of LSD or bath salts" and the media just ran with that. Later, it was revealed
the attacker wasn't on anything at all; he'd just had a psychotic break on his own but few ppl saw that follow up article as it wasn't headline worthy. You know, sometimes people are just violently insane, unfortunately.
De todos modos, in my world, I can find meth and I can find PCP, no problem. If I want a pyrovalerone drug, well, I have a stash of α-PVP I stocked up on because I really like that drug and after seeing what crappened to MXE, any time a research chemical comes along and impresses me, I stock up now just in case. And sure enough, it's become difficult finding α-PVP any longer… there are RC vendors of other, similar compounds like α-PiHP and the sort, but they're never quite the same
Is the reasoning here just the same as MXE? Dissos are hard to synth for a small lab and big labs are focusing on the legal analogues?
Hard to say. MXE came from the RC scene and stopped when it was banned in China along with a handful of other specific compounds. Procuring the necessary equipment and precursors is very tricky for any clandestine chemist with zero connections to the chemical engineering industry and/or academia. Otherwise, the chemistry is straightforward enough for
most of the arylcycloalkylamines. It's just involved enough to require many specific reagents, more than a half dozen reactions at not-so-stellar yields, and a limited market demand. It's a wonder to me that illicit PCP still maintains a limited presence in certain cities.
Or is PCP just not as good for most people as those who tried it remember it being?
PCP hasn't disappeared. The popularity of ketamine and RC dissos leads me to believe PCP would be more popular were it not for the sketchy reputation and it mostly only being sold in the hood and ghettos of the U.S., neighborhoods in the low socio-economic stratosphere with high victim-bearing crime rates. It's a real shame, but another example of why—while it's good having friends in high places—sometimes it's good to have friends in low places, as it were, too… or ultimately why you should seek to network and maintain relationships with people from all walks of life, neither looking down your nose nor revering anyone too much.
