Just dipped into ketamine and pervitin

No, no, no! Didn’t try them. I used my favorite search engine, perplexity.com, to find out what they are and why certain people have been talking about them.

Who’s talking about them? Various, you know, social media posts or whatever have informed me that Elon Musk has been using ketamine. Maybe Musk, in all his grandiosity, told people he’s using ketamine.

Now, I’m naive about ketamine. I’d always thought it was an anesthetic for horses and other animals, but then I am a repeat watcher of real-life animal shows like The Yorkshire Vet. For which I will not apologize. So I didn’t know until fairly recently that human beings did ketamine.

Here’s what perplexity tells me about the use of ketamine by creatures other than animals:

Short-term effects of ketamine include:

  1. Feeling happy, relaxed, and detached from the body
  2. Lowered sensitivity to pain
  3. Visual and auditory hallucinations
  4. Confusion, disorientation, and impaired motor coordination
  5. Increased heart rate and blood pressure
  6. Slurred speech and blurred vision
  7. Nausea and vomiting
  8. Anxiety and panic attacks

Well, hey there, now I see why someone might want to try ketamine. Don’t we all wish to experience the above every once in a while? Especially the last six effects? Sounds like ketamine acts like a combo of acid, speed, booze, food poisoning and psychosis, what fun!

In higher doses, users may experience a phenomenon known as “falling into a k-hole,” where they feel intensely detached from reality. Long-term or chronic use of ketamine can lead to more severe effects:

  1. Memory problems and difficulty concentrating
  2. Mood swings and personality changes
  3. Depression
  4. Ketamine bladder syndrome, a painful condition causing urinary tract issues
  5. Liver and kidney damage
  6. Persistent psychotic symptoms in some individuals

Perhaps ketamine does explain the weirdly scary behavior of Elon Musk. (And please don’t inform me about his urinary tract problems; I don’t want to know. I mean, not unless he’s taking out his penis on stage and peeing into the audience. That I do want to know.)

Let’s go on to a drug I’d never heard of, Pervitin. Here’s perplexity’s short answer:

Pervitin was a methamphetamine-based drug developed and widely used in Nazi Germany.

Pervitin was meth. And it was given to Nazi soldiers, especially during fun blitzkriegs to keep them awake and wired.

Since we all know about the less salubrious effects of meth, I won’t add perplexity’s full analysis of it but must say that, boiling this down (pun intended), we can understand that the Nazis were Beserkers.

So maybe Elon’s behavior is a combination of ketamine and pervitin? You know, the Nazi salute part?

P.S. If I haven’t yet introduced you to www.perplexity.com, let me do it now. This is the best search engine I’ve ever used, miles above Google.

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