But I still don't understand why anyone would find it particularly abusable.
Yep – propylhexedrine is some nasty-feeling, skin-crawly shit, to me. It's a short, shaky high that is not without its own initial charms, but then it degrades and leaves me feeling like hot, wet garbage. No thanks. And normally I love most stims. No offense to you,
@Juicewrldfan, everyone has their drugs of choice, right? Different strokes and all that.
Goddamn the taste of the eucalyptus and menthol from one of those cotton wads is so impossibly ratchet it almost makes me gag. I can taste that foul shit now just thinking about it.
Anyway
@Juicewrldfan propylhexedrine isn't removed from OTC status probs bc of this very unpleasantness. It's schedule V I believe, whatever
that means, lol. It's just not that enjoyable to most people, I think. There are some exceptions of course to prove the rule, such as yourself, but I get the feeling it's not too common. Similarly, DXM in OTC cough syrup isn't much of a problem bc it's so goddamn unpleasant on its own to most people. Has a built-in safety mechanism in that dysphoria.
I was strung out what can I say.
I hear ya, man, but criminalizing drugs w/prohibition is too destructive to society as it deals out far more harm than the drugs they purportedly protect us from. I appreciate your genuine concern for others, and I'm really sorry that shit strung you out, but
please don't advocate for more drug laws. It's the last thing we need.
From a technical standpoint, one of the most profoundly mind-altering substances – the motion sickness drug Dramamine (
Dimenhydrinate) – when you take about a dozen it becomes a deliriant. A friend and I did this when we were 18-yrs-old, and it was a miserable experience I will never repeat. Nonetheless, I thought initially: holy fucking shit, this seems dangerous to be able to buy OTC. But it's no more dangerous than, say, Paracetamol (acetaminophen, aka Tylenol), which will kill you if you take the whole bottle at once. Not a pleasant or drowsy death either, but rather a painful slow shutting down of internal organs and immense pain. Super inadvisable on every level, yet the option is there, in the wild, so to speak, ripe for the plucking of the OTC persuasion.
Or really, no one will stop you from buying two different cleaning products – one made w/ bleach; the other, ammonia. Take them home, open them up, combine them in the bath tub, lean over that motherfucker and breath deeply – deadly chlorine gas will burn your trachea and asphyxiate/poison you. You'll wind up slumped over the tub, dead as a doornail like some 1950s homemaker.
None of the above mean we should outlaw bleach, ammonia, diphenydramine (the biggest component to Dramamine), or acetaminophen, though, ya feel me?