Feature: Music’s Death Potion
[International & Regional] You’re beautiful on drugs. Or is it? Experience* the effects of drugs and we swear you’ll never wanna do the real thing.
Featuring Songster.
*No actual drugs were used during production. Article contains graphical content.
INFO
Also Known As:
E, Brownies, Mitsubishi, Rolex, Dolphin, XTC
Price:
US$10 to US$50 per tablet
US$100 to US$250 per gram
Law:
Illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, or distribute (sell, trade or give).
HIGHS
+ Extreme mood lift
+ Increased willingness to communicate
+ Increase in energy (stimulation)
+ Ego softening
+ Feelings of comfort, belonging, and closeness to others
+ Feelings of love and empathy
+ Increased awareness & appreciation of music
+ Increased awareness of senses. (eating, drinking, smell)
+ Neurotically based fear dissolution
+ Sensations bright and intense
LOWS
+ Post-trip Crash: unpleasantly harsh comedown from the peak
+ Inappropriate and/or unintended emotional bonding
+ Mild to extreme jaw clenching (trisma), tongue and cheek chewing, and teeth grinding (bruxia)
+ Short-term memory scramble or loss & confusion
+ Muscle tension
+ Increase in body temperature, hyperthermia, dehydration (drink water)
+ Headaches, dizziness, loss of balance, and vertigo
+ Mild depression and fatigue for up to a week
INFO
Also Known As:
Acid, Blotter, Dots, Drop, Flash, Liquid acid, Lucy
Price:
US$3 to US$25 per hit
US$100 to US$200 per blotter sheet (100 hits)
Law:
Illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, or distribute (sell, trade or give)
HIGHS
+ Closed and open eye visuals
+ Increase in energy (stimulation)
+ Increase in associative & creative thinking
+ Mood lift
+ Increased awareness & appreciation of music
+ Increased awareness of senses. (eating, drinking, smell)
+ Profound life-changing spiritual experiences
LOWS
+ Unwanted and overwhelming feelings
+ Tension, jaw tension
+ Increased perspiration
+ Nausea
+ Dizziness, confusion
+ Megalomania
+ Over-awareness & over-sensitization to music and noise
+ Paranoia, fear, and panic
+ Unwanted and overwhelming feelings
+ Unwanted life-changing spiritual experiences
+ Flashbacks
INFO
Also Known As:
Pot, Weed, Hash, Grass, Ganja, Mary Jane, Cannabis
Price:
US$25 to US$150 per 1/4 ounce
Prices vary depending on quality, quantity and location.
Law:
Both Cannabis and Tetrahydrocannabinols, the active chemicals contained in Cannabis plants are illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, or distribute (sell, trade or give).
HIGHS
+ Creative, philosophical or deep thinking : ideas flow more easily
+ Mood lift, euphoria
+ Laughter
+ Relaxation, stress reduction
+ Increased appreciation of music. More aware of, deeper connection to music.
+ Increased awareness of senses. (eating, drinking, smell)
+ Change in experience of muscle fatigue. Pleasant body feel. Increase in body/mind connection.
+ Pain relief (headaches, cramps)
+ Reduced nausea, increased appetite (used medically for this)
+ Boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny
LOWS
+ Dizziness, confusion
+ Nausea, especially in combination with alcohol, some pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactives
+ Coughing, asthma, upper respiratory problems
+ Difficulty with short term memory during effects and during periods of frequent use (Ranganathan M, D’Souza DC, Psychopharmacology, 2006)
+ Mild to severe anxiety
+ Paranoid & anxious thoughts more frequent
+ Possible psychological dependence on cannabis
+ Can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders
INFO
Also Known As:
Liberties, Magics, Mushies, Shrooms, Amani
Price:
US$20 to US$40 per 1/8 ounce
US$100 to US$250 per ounce
Law:
The two primary active chemicals Psilocybin and Psilocin are both illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, or distribute (sell, trade or give).
HIGHS
+ Mood lift, euphoria
+ Giggling, laughter, giddiness
+ Creative, philosophical or deep thinking : ideas flow more easily
+ Boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny
+ Sensation of insight
+ Life changing spiritual experience
+ Intense feelings of wonder
+ Paradoxical feeling of a normalcy and deep alteration of psyche
LOWS
+ Intense feelings of fear
+ Headache, usually as effects wear off, sometimes beginning the next day, lasting for up to 24 hours
+ Nausea, gas, gastrointestinal discomfort, especially when dry mushrooms eaten raw
+ Mild to severe anxiety
+ Dizziness, confusion
+ Lightheadedness or fainting (in cases of lowered blood pressure)
+ Can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders
NEED HELP?
Below are links to Narcotics Annonymous websites in Asia. You’ve got your whole life ahead of you. Do the right thing.
Model Songster
Photography Daniel Loh
Graphics Kae
Information courtesy of erowid.com
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