Drug Effects Methylone and Mephedrone

Time for a break from the non-stop drug reports and I am still 5 experiences behind.

Before I started researching, what I wanted but could never find was a detailed list of effects of various drugs and what to expect after taking them. Certain things are available, but these are mostly just list of possible effects and I found that very hard to relate to. To try to address this I have just written a couple of first time guides of what to expect, I would hope this would be particularly useful for a complete first timer, as this is the most anxious and worried that a prospective researcher will ever be. I will start with one my current favourites, Methylone and then move on to a chemical that is currently very de rigueur at the moment in London Mephedrone, both are have there similarities to MDMA and Mephedrone is often compared to a mix between coke and MDMA.

Methylone Effects:

Upon dosing on an empty stomach, after about 10 - 20 minutes except to feel, what people describe as "coming-up", this includes some many or all of the following feelings:

Warm pleasant and if it is your first time, unusual feelings which are seemingly starting from your chest and or belly area, this can spread out from there to encompass all of your body, giving you what can only be described as, "the tingles", this is often particularly noticeable in your legs.

After a little longer perhaps 30 - 60 minutes these feeling will start to be superseded, by the main effects:

A large mood lift, feeling of well-being love and empathy, the warmth that you were feeling in the "coming-up" phase, is now more intense, and can sometimes be almost overwhelming, sometimes if you are lucky coming over you in waves. This is literately an unbelievable sense of bliss and excitement and oneness with your surroundings, if you are with someone you who you share feelings for, you will both feel that you are sharing an almost telepathic bound with that person. After the peak which may last anywhere from 30 - 60 minutes, you will notice the effects start to subside, although you should not be abandoned by the substance, coming slowly back to earth over the next 90 minutes or so, with the warm feelings still noticeable for the vast majority of this time. This is when most people would re-dose, I do not recommend this, as it does not seem to work, or it only works a little.

Methylone Dosage:

Difficult to say, this varies massively from person to person, for some people 180mg others myself included need 400mg, these figures are for bombing ie, (wrap in a rizla and swallow).

Mephedrone Effects:

Upon dosing on an empty stomach, after about 10 - 20 minutes except to feel, what people describe as "coming-up", this includes some many or all of the following feelings:

Warm pleasant and if it is your first time, unusual feelings which are seemingly starting from your chest and or belly area, this can spread out from there to encompass all of your body, giving you what can only be described as, "the tingles", this is often particularly noticeable in your legs. Also start to feel the urge to chat, and maybe get a little fidgety.

After a little longer perhaps 30 - 60 minutes these feeling will start to be superseded, by the main effects:

Very alert, stimulated and full of energy, social skills increased off the chart, although not in so much as ego increasing way as coke, sexual arousal for some and some or lots of euphoria, this seems to vary quite a lot person to person, definite and major increase in appreciation to music, the rhythm will certainly get you. After the peak which may last anywhere between 90 - 120 minutes, you will notice the effects start to subside, particularly any euphoria the stimulation will almost certainly remain the longest. This is when most people would re-dose, to do so once seems to be always okay, re-dose the same amount and you will be back to where you were before, a second re-dose, now you are pushing it you will not quite be back to where you were before but nearly, by this time you would have been flying for at least 6 hours, for the love of god, STOP

Mephedrone Dosage:

Somewhere between 150 - 250mg these figures are for bombing ie, (wrap in a rizla and swallow).

Side Effects:

Either or the above can produce side effects, but for MOST people these are minor and worth the high, if common sense was applied with the initial dosing, these can include:

Minor (expect one of these):

Chewing/grinding teeth (bruxism)

Eye wiggles (nystagmus)

Mild paranoia

Major (expect one or more of these if you have been abusing it, or you are particularly sensitive to the substance):

Serve paranoia & anxiety

Temperature hypersensitivity

Blue hands and or knees

Psychosis

Egg Kings Cross 23 May 2009

Welcome to my first report of the blog, in this report as in all the others to follow I shall be 100% honest and as accurate as my memory permits, I also promise faithfully to include any and all of the bad effects as well as the good.

Substance taken: Mephedrone / Random pill contents unknown

Date: 23 May 2009

Venue: Egg, Kings X

Weight:180lbs

Height: 6' 1"

Total Dose: Scales not used, or owned at the time, probably approx. 500mg all (Insufflated) One Pill Oral

Route of ingestion: Insufflated / Oral

Main effects: Empathy, Music appreciation, would not shut up, body buzz, eye wiggles, unsteadiness, on redose

Side effects :Some jaw tension, paranoia, sweating

Introduction

Not tried this substance before, open mind, open nose.

Met up with dropping mate on this occasion it was NME (Nicest Man in Europe)

22.30

In the pub nipped to the toilet, Insufflated, approx 10-20mg, eyeballed dose no real idea how much.

22.40

No effect, maybe a little anxious feeling, probably nothing.

22.50

Still nothing, leave pub head for club, wait for NME, have urge to chat with random people sitting round a fire in the middle of the market, manage to resist, thought that was odd, but thought no more about it.

23.00

Club having issues, with something; not ready to open or something, go to different club, still nothing.

00.00

Enter, new and improved club, (Egg Kings X) check it out seems really good, been wanting to go here for a while.

00.10

Go to toilet measure out two fat lines, good noseful, convinced at this point, gear is rubbish a dud, a waste of time, from more recent experience dose was 150 – 200mg. Insufflated, right up the hooter, jeez does it taste bad down the throat, go back to the bar.

00.13

Okay thinking maybe this gear is actually working, fast, very fast come up, elevated heart rate, warm glow from chest, very pleasant, start wanting to talk to NME, I will not shut up all night, must have driven him mad.

00.30 – 02.00

After talking non-stop, we hit the dance floor, all music seems fantastic even hardcore drum and bass and nobody likes that shit, huge pupils, insist on drinking lager as well, amazing gear, not the high euphoric sensation of MDMA, more speedy, but very very good in its own right, sweating a little, keep spinning round on the dance floor, concerned everybody is watching me, although this does not bother me. Mate wrestles lager away from me and makes me drink water.

02.00 - 02.30

Coming down, but still very nice, no feeling of needing to redoes just yet, have lost NME talking to random people, I must look like I having a great time, was asked more times than ever what I was on where did I get, I act dumb, easy for me that.

02.30

Find NME, he is on pills of dubious and untested nature, try one of those, this as it turns out, seems to have no effect.

03.00

Nip to toilet for redose, there is a bouncer in the toilets, I am paranoid as hell now, hold it together manage, to pretend to go for wee, he clears off, jump into stall, heart is pumping, worried and anxious. Want more gear, but thinking the bouncer is coming back to “get me”, take stash, out of pocket, still in wrap, to worried to make a line, so in a, “I need this NOW and quick”, kind of way, sick rolled up note straight into, stash and sniff, god knows how much I took, either way I do the same with the other nostril. From more experience since this day I had at between 250 - 300mg.

03.10

Leave toilets, before bouncer “comes to get me”, I get all the effects at once like being hit by a freight train, eye wiggles: check, sweating: check, unsteady on my feet like I have had 12 pints of lager: check, huge body ruses: check. Manage to wobble back to NME, he is concerned by the look of me, and gets me to sit down and have some water.

03.15

Eye wiggles are massive, almost all the time, lucky I find this amusing and not to disorienting. I try and text, I have approx two seconds to find the next letter before eye wiggles make the operation impossible.

03.45

Mate suggests we move go for a walk, this was a good idea, still a little unsteady, but no more than a 5 pint clubber now, starting to feel good, realise I over did the re-dose, hey nothing gets past me.

04.00 - 06.00

Back on the dance floor, even drum and bass sounds good, I mention to NME that this gear has made my legs ache, he says, "it is not the gear, but because you have been dancing for 4 hours", good point I think. At some point I suggest taking some more, NME INSISTS we leave, good call.

06.30 – 08.00

Have the longest journey home ever, time dilatation I would guess, have to change trains, a pigeon is cooing, I start to dance to the beat, thank god it is so early in the morning and nobody notices.

08.00- 12.00

Bad come down, paranoid, shakes, sweating, I am hot I am cold, not sure, cant sleep cant do anything, sleep comes in two hours, I sleep for 2 hours, get up feeling very tired but apart from that okay.

Debriefing

At the time immediately after I was back to baseline, I presumed the massive come down was due to the amount taken, and whilst this remains a possibility, as it was my first time with this substance and thus tolerance would be low. However with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, the best kind, and more experience of the substance, the more likely culprit was the pill of unknown origin or contents. Although I felt no positive effects from it at the time, or effects of any kind for that matter, these could easily have been masked by the big mephedrone effects.

Therefore lessons learned: NEVER take a pill that has not be tested either by a VERY reliable source, or better still with pill testing kit Marquis Reagent.