Thursday 21 July 2011

Ketamine: Horse Shit

Ketamine appers to be the media's drug du jour again.
Exciting.
The Daily Mail notes;
'Fears over 50% rise in use of deadly horse tranquiliser drug'
And if you've ever had to tranquilise a deadly horse you'll know how powerful this stuff must be.
There was a daft apropos of sod-all "report" on K on BBC News all yesterday.
An "undercover" reporter tried to buy some for import in India.
We met an ex-user who's had to have his bladder removed - cause that happens so often, doesn't it?
You can see the short film and read follow-up reports on the BBC News website and here.
This is even more fucking scary.
"There have also been a small but growing number of deaths linked to ketamine..."
Really!
Did you find any you could actually blame on K?
They only mention two, Louise Cattell, who died earlier this year, and Caleb Twomey, who died last year.
But Louise Cattell drowned in the bath, and Caleb Twomey committed suicide - blaming either of these deaths on ketamine is, at best, tenuous.
You wonder who these silly scare stories are aimed at.
Anyone who knows anything about drugs will most likely just laugh at the exaggerations and absurdities.
Anyone who doesn't know anything about drugs will have their blissful ignorance reinforced.
Though I guess some of them might ask why anyone would want to take something that instantly eats your own bladder before making you want to drown yourself in the bath and then go tranquilise a deadly horse.

10 comments:

  1. Did i ever tell you about the time i snorted ketamine on the top floor of an abandoned hospital?

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  2. It was christmas 2009, heavy snowfall had engulfed the city and one night during the holiday period i met a bloke in a pub, we went to a party, we had some fun, then we left.

    Later we snorted ketamine on the top floor of an abandoned hospital, it was fine.

    The End.

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  3. That's positively Burroughs-ian!
    Well done.

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  4. I remember many years ago at a free party, being on the top of an abandoned office block on Bristol, pulling people back from the edge who were off it on K. Much better to do it on the ground floor.

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  5. I once drank twice the recommended dose of cough medicine while sitting on a very high chair.
    I reeled to and fro in a haze of giddy euphoria, but never fell off thankfully.
    Heady days...

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  6. im currently producing a leaflet on ketamine on the behalf of Mattew Project. I would like to use your peice on ketamine as a qoute to go in the leaflet. is that ok??

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  7. Yes, please do.
    Be great if you could say it's from fagburn.com and let me know when the leaflet's out.

    thanks

    x

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  8. Of cousre. Thank you x

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