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I went out in Bristol to see what drugs were available and being used today, I found that Ketamin was amongst the most common, one of the cheapest and with some of the most intense and scary effects. After finding it's actually intended to be used as a horse tranquilizer, I took ketamin user 'Gruff' to a vetinary surgery to witness what effects a similar amount of Ketamin has on a horse.

I just want to make it very clear that the horse was already scheduled for an operation (to remove a testicle) by the very well-respected Equine surgery who were kind enough to let me film it. The operation procedure was in no way influenced by the pod, the operation was sucessful and the horse made a full recovery.
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26 comments // Ketamine Is For Horses // Video

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    Hey Gruff, why the long face?

    bubbeemonkey
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    wow, that was really eye opening. It's a shame that we can't get this point across to the masses.

    thegirl
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    That rocked.

    Great objectivity and the horse was cute.

    arcticspirit
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    There is a positive stigma that comes from being able to survive and enjoy a substance that can fuck up something much bigger than yourself.
    But after watching this pod I will think twice before ever doing k again.

    imari
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    Well there is a lot of miss-information about Ketamine so I will hope to clear a few things up, I will start by saying that I do feel that ketamine is a bad thing and I know a lot of people who have nearly ruined there life with it and even one person who injected it while in the bath and drowned.

    Firstly street ketamine is not the same as the stuff given to horses, some of the stuff vets use has morphine in it.
    Also most people who take K do it in powder form, this means that one gram up the nose is a lot less potent than if you were to inject liquid K into the muscle as was done to the horse. The sad fact is that this would be a much safer way of doing it [so long as you know the dose] as the snorting powder causes many of the harmful effects of taking K. the powder is unable to be filtered by the kidneys and causes them along with the stomach to shrink. This causes sustitus in men and women and what is known as 'the K cramps' which cramps of the stomach. All of the above are very painful, if you are going to take K then you need to spit it out once it drips from the back of your nose to your throat and drink lots of water so that it is not laying around in your body.

    Many people think that K is a tranquilizer, this is not strictly true. It is a 'dissociative' which means that it separates mind from body while keeping both awake, thus causing out of body experiences and the like. K has aloud me to experience some amazing things that have given me powerful insights into the real world; in fact states of K use have been likened to states achieved by supreme meditation.

    In recent times the K available has changed, K can be safe if taken properly, as you saw the horse was fine and you will probably not wake up with a ball missing. However it is the K available on the street that has more sinister side effects. It used to come from India, then it was medical grade but now a lot of it comes from the Far East and has been found to contain opiates. That has made K less enjoyable and much more addictive.

    Ketamine has a lot of negative aspects; if people are going to take it then they should do their homework

    drake_mallard
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    The k that I know is supposedly a cat tranquilizer, purchased in liquid form at discount vet offices in mexico. After its snuck over the border it's then 'cooked' and consumed as a powder. Is this k (or all k) still actually made in Southeast Asia and then just distributed around the world?

    imari
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    interesting topic, keep hearing more and more about it, it's good to have a pod on it and nicely done...although having read the responses would have been nive to have more facts surrounding it...

    georgiepie
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    OK... For a start, that horse dint snort cooked up ket did it. It had 1.5g of pure liquid ket injected into its veins. Try that on someone? Get the horse to snort some instead of injecting it? I'm sure there will be different reactions.
    And another thing, drugs are designed to work with your brain mechanics. A horse can not sit at a dinner table holding a knife and fork and talk to you about your working day - in other words, it can cope with very little to what we can. I've spoken to people who have used it on cats in sancturies to calm them down if they're getting too vicious, slightly more intelligent animals than horses, it doesn't knock em out as such, just sedates them nicely.
    Size only plays a small part in dosage.
    That horse is huge and was given 1.5g of K, I've seen people snort that and be pretty much fine and some be in a complete K hole - the ones in the hole aren't used to doing such big lines, whereas the others who snort it as their "normal" line have been snorting it for a very long time and have built up a tolerance.
    A friend of a friend ingested some mixed up in some water, not sure how much, but they went into a hole and foamed at the mouth. But then again, I've had a little foam in my mouth from snorting a relatively small line. Can anybody tell me what that is due to??
    This video hasn't put me off coz I believe in brain mechanics and drugs being suited to each type.
    We can cope far better than a horse, size does not matter.
    There, thats all I'm ranting! lol

    whoareya
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    i just did a line before writing this ands i ammmmmmm fine ant cun spull fime.

    lol, k is alkaline so mix it with orange juice not water, i don't know why you foamed at the mouth, rabies maybe. lol.

    drake_mallard
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    I'm in the processes of proposing the production of a film about Ketamine and why everyone is doing it in (you guessed it) Bristol. I have taken the drug myself and have had my fair share of good experiences along with bad. Very much like Booze and most over drugs. K can have adverse effects on people and scare them out of their wits.
    I feel that drugs like Ketamine, demand a certain amount of mental stability and knowledge of how drugs work and the understanding that the effects will eventually pass.
    Ketamine has become far to popular in Bristol and people, including a lot of my friends, are taking the drugs at times, where surely a glass of wine or just even a cup of tea should surfice. Pubs are now as good avplace as any to get wonkerfied like a two legged donkey.
    I realy like the documentary made by Stew and think it looks professional and pretty hard hitting. I want my documentary to educate users as well as non-users about the drug, and allow for those who have had positive and negative experiences with the drug share them on camera.
    As I have used the drug and have had good aswell bad experiences, I want this documentary to be more of a personal exploration into a drug that Intrigues me and one that I feel I dont know and others dont know about. I wanna try and present the truth behind Ketamine, without coming from a completely negative bias towards the drug.
    Dont make the misconception that I am promoting or plan to promote the drug in anyway. I am merely asking the question through the medium of video documentary "Why do so many people in Bristol do Ketamine?"

    bobbybasic
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    because it is cheep and addictive.

    drake_mallard
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    Please lets get this straight once and for all!!!! Ketamine is NOT a horse tranquilizer!! It is an anesthetic used for both veterinary and Humans. It is used as a field anesthetic by ambulance crews for serious injury , and for babies having an opertion as it doesnt affect your respiratory system. Since PCP was scheduled it is the only animal anasthetic used by vets on ALL animals not just horses. The K people tke here in the UK is probably 95% Pharmaceutical made for humans most from India.

    Zebedee
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    Hmmm, just doesn't sound worth it to me.

    ash_theory
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    Mr. Horse considers

    TheSeriousHorse
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    Is this also what people refer to in the street as Special K?

    Mobius2012
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    anyone up for a calvinklein ???

    RIVA_C
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    I love Stew Game.

    I think he should present more programs.

    I'd watch all of them.

    KateA
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    Ketamine had become popular with some computer scientists in Northern CA, US as well as with teens (Special K). At one of the hospitals I worked, I saw a young girl who had severe nerve damage requiring months of rehabilitation.

    arlenejohns
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    i feel very opinionated about k. i moved to hampshire from devon in 5 months ago. between now and then ive gone from not even knowing what it is, to doing it at free partys every weekend and hav just stopped doing it every day in the week. also in that time i have had 2 jobs one of which was working for the NHS as a dental nurse! i quit the job as i felt i wasnt responsible enough to work there coz i thought i was addicted to k. ive also been arrested an cautioned with it on me. i was never perfect in devon as i was addicted to cocaine and speed but i moved here to clean up and i cant beleive wats happened! its not my friends, its all because of the addictve personality all of us recovering addicts suffer with. I love k, i love the wobbles and the feeling of being an angel, and when you tell yourself you'll sort your life out on it. but i hate the after effects, the craving, what it does to your body and your bladder, and bad k holes. it makes music more intense which is why its wonderful at partys and k was made for techno, but the more we find out about it the more scary its becoming.
    i think they call it party smack for a reason.

    chantalblack
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    Actually, it is sadly mistaken that ketamin is made for horses. It is used for a variety of animals and is designed for use on humans too. Ketamin has different effects on children as opposed to adults - one of the reasons why it is used by dentists... Do a little research if you think it's bullshit.

    SUM109
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    This is a very inacurate and misleading pod. First of all Ketamine is NOT a horse tranquiliser. It is an anasthetic. It is the only vetinary anasthetic used in operations for all animals NOT just horses. The Ketamine on the streets of the UK is manufactured for human use NOT horses. It is comonly accepted as one of the safest general anasthetics known to man as it does not affevst your respiritory system and one doesnt need to be put on breathing apparatus. This is why it is used everywhere as a field anasthetic in wars if you get shot or if you get injured say in a car crash the ambulance crew will inject you with Ketamine. Also vetinary Ketamine is usually 1gram to 10ml while human Ketamine 1gram to 20 ml. Generally human Ket feels much stronger than vetinary. There have beenpretty much no reported deaths atributed solely to the recreational use of ketamine. Im not saying its safe because it isnt. Its highly addictive, psycollogically, though can be as hard or harder than heroin to come off and can screw you up big time psycologically and phyically. Kidney and liver problems are common with ketamine infact their have been casses in China where the drug is the most common street drug of strret users having to be put onto kidney dialysis as a result of longterm abuse. Ketamine is an amazing drug and you can learn and experience soo much through it but in the end you will be doing it all day where ever you are whatever you are doing!

    Zebedee
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    also regarding Georgiepies comment. There is never any opiates mixed with Ketamine. Wether the ketamine is imported from india or china as more and more is recently it is still just Ketamine Hydrochloride made by a pharmaceutical company intended for human hospitol use. No opiates included im afraid!! If you think opiates may be added illicitely, utter rubish as opiates are far more expensive and nobody would waste thei money so stupidly!

    Zebedee
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    Georgie pie regarding you foaming at the mouth while on Ketamine. Their are over 15 different types of Ketamine manufactured in India. Some, most notably Obouy Pharmaceuticals more commanly known as Obe 1 or Gold Top does commonly make you foam at the mouth as a side effect. I call it rabid dog K!!!

    Zebedee

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