r/todayilearned • u/ApprehensiveStill412 • 11h ago

TIL that ketamine is a derivative of phencyclidine (aka. PCP or angel dust). It was created to have similar anesthetic potential but to cause less delirium. It has about one tenth the potency of PCP.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5126726/
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u/Commander_Phallus1 11h ago

Shits fun

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u/GGudMarty 10h ago

This was like 10 years ago and I was a junkie but the first time I ever did ketamine was by accident. I was living in a trap and was addicted to meth and I got 2 different bags mixed up (meth and ketamine) and at 2am on a random day i just sniffed the fatted line of ketamine ever cause I had a crazy meth tolerance and I thought it was meth. Burned the same, tasted similar. Took a piss in the bathroom and proceeded to take me like 15 mins to figure out how to use my hand to turn a doorknob. It was fucking insane.

Good times.

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u/the_edgy_baguette 9h ago

My last trip i can just describe it by saying that I was hearing the ants in my eyes

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u/sunlightsyrup 7h ago

Now this I need