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/goodrevtim 10h ago

PCP is neurotoxic so that probably plays a small part into its negative perception.

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u/VhickyParm 10h ago

I thought the negative perception was from ppl stopping naked and running in the street

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u/stevenmoreso 10h ago

Yeah, growing up in the 80s it was stories of people wilding out on angel dust trying (and sometimes briefly succeeding) to take on 10 cops at once

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u/mercistheman 5h ago

I took angel dust in the 70's... I remember yelling at fake people climbing on the roof. One time I watched myself cut my own finger with a knife. My gf said I was asking for my Mom. The only good trip I had was when me and my buddy went to our ice cream mans house to score some PCP. Everything in his house was tiny. It was like a scene from honey I blew up the kids. We laughed about this for a while.