I went to a party in the early 1970's where a girl was huffing ether from a quart bottle that she had stolen from a hospital. She offered me a hit. I was immediately in a total blackout, senseless. After a few minutes I came back to myself standing in the same spot, I don't know how long I was out but I gave her the bottle back and quickly left her sitting there on the floor huffing away. It was a terrifying experience, one I will never repeat.
@@Pliko3you have to inhale alot of duster to have something like that happen. Duster is essentially like doing whip-its, ive never had an experience where i blacked out doing duster, but maybe i didnt go as hard at it as you chose to.
Another prime example of the fact that people will always get high or intoxicated on something, no matter what that thing is. It’s all about availability and price and always has been. This is why the war on drugs is a ridiculous waste of time and resources.
@@ThatMans-anAnimal The war on drugs is a failure and only served to imprison people for years for cheap labor, disproportionately affecting minorities. it has contributed to the US having the most slaves/prisoners. drug use has only went up in the US since the war on drugs. meanwhile other developed countries have largely fixed their problems such as Portugal; which legalized all drugs in 2001 and instead sent people to optional rehab centers to to get treatment.
@@cydonia2780 "the most slaves/prisoners." What about the war on drugs lead to slavery? what an incredibly weird / far reach entirely caused by polictical ideology fueled by your desire to "protect" groups
Psychedelic was mind blowing for me. I found myself in a world where swirling colors created a mesmerizing kaleidoscope. Time stretched as I explored cosmic landscapes, feeling a profound connection to everything. It left me with a deep sense of peace and wonder, realizing the limitless potential of the mind. 0:02
I have been a chemical operator at various companies in the Greater St. Louis area for over a decade. I am also a former avid drug enthusiast. I have worked with Ether and it's many other sister compounds, and I tell you what! Nothing is scarier than a group of 7 men all standing around laughing their asses off at the word mop bucket. It's dangerous, but that high is something else.
I'm gonna keep details out but yeah it's freaking scary... *Especially* when stimulants are in use... I don't want to risk people going literally psychotic around me anymore. I'm happy doing crazy shit alone. It once got so bad for someone that I had to give the motherfucker an actual anti-psychotic. I keep anti-psychotics on me for those situations, they're much better insurance than anything else. They're not for myself, let's put it like that.
@@chadclay1643 the only way you get this hook up is by having a big set of nuts, not being a moron, and the willingness to kick your own ass into the ground every day.
As an antique bottle collector, I have come across many British "Bateman's Chlorodyne" bottles. There were other brands of chlorodyne, but most of them contained morphine or opium, cannabis Indica, chloroform or ether and other substances, in a solution of alcoholic spirits. The bottle dumps of the U.K. are filled with these bottles and are identifiable by the cobalt blue glass, embossed ridges and the words "NOT TO BE TAKEN" embossed sideways on the bottle. It was labeled as a poison to deter abuse, but was definitely intended for consumption by the patient or customer.
Ether and glue were a major problem in the 90s in many post-soviet countries, esp. Russia where people and kids were high on glue because there were no other (hard) drugs readily available. It's crazy to what lengths people would go to get high for a couple of minutes.
A couple notes on this video from a chemistry perspective: - Ether does reek but it does not smell like sulfur at all because it doesnt actually contain any and high purity ether has always been super easy to make. I can only describe the smell as being a very strong, almost sweet chemical smell. - Ether not only used as an anesthetic, it's been widely used as a solvent (basically a substance that's used to dissolve other chemicals) for basically the entire industrial era because of its chemical properties and how cheap it is. This is probably why it was always so accessible to people. As a sidenote, anyone who's taken an organic chemistry class has probably handled ether before, and I've never met anyone who wasn't totally adverse to the smell of it. Besides that, its so volatile that you can see the fumes coming off of it at room temperature. Any time I've worked with it, I left the lab with a headache. So, the idea of drinking it is so crazy to me
As a person who has huffed Ether less than a year ago, i find this video to be super interesting, but also a bit misleading. Drinking Ether is terrible for you as it boils in your stomach leading to a build up of gas, causing rupture. Huffing Ether in moderate dosages only causes you to smell terrible. Also an Ether high is far from an alchohol high. Ether is a dissociative psychedelic, and people who have never taken other dissociatives relate it to alcohol, but it is way closer to Nitrous or dxm. I am I no way condoning Ether use, as it is very dangerous to store and use, and never drink it, huff it or turn it into prince Ruperts drops.
Is ether subject to the same issues as other inhalants like butane or something? That being the whole possibility of sudden sniffing death syndrome and also just general horrible things it does to your mind and body. Or is it similar to nitrous where it’s pretty much safe given you aren’t doing it all day every day
My mum was a theatre nurse in the 1960s Australia & Ether was still being used as an anaesthetic: dripped carefully on a mask held over the patient's face during the surgery. It was being phased out & replaced with other medications, but not because it was problematically flammable. Instead, because of the way that it was administered, it was sometimes difficult to get the precise dosage for certain patients - leading to them becoming partially awake during surgery. (nb: This was less about the patient being in pain, or freaking out, but that the patient's writhing 'round was irritating the surgeons as they tried to work.l
This is the first TH-cam content I’ve ever seen about the ether epidemic! I remember reading that Moneymore, a small town close to where I grew up, was an early epicentre. It was so bizarre to think that this sleepy little Ulster town was the site of one of the first modern drug epidemics. Nobody knows this, I’ve loved reading about drugs and related topics for years and that’s the inly reason I know about it. Impressive to see a TH-cam video on it.
What the hell? This is a criminally underappreciated channel. Very well done on writing, delivery, and visuals. Just keep going man, success is bound to follow such good quality.
I actually had a classmate who had claimed to enjoy sitting on the football field at night with a blanket covered in starting fluid because it made him feel good. Now that actually makes sense I guess.
@@tiki_trash he was a smoker, shit later in life he got to tweakin. dude was smart as a whip though, just made a lot of negligent life decisions. how it goes I guess
So, after watching all that, we're still left with the question of why Hunter S. Thompson was so scared of it. Seems like even schoolchildren could drink it before class.
He was an old man; I bet you he saw and heard of many personal stories of how fucked it was. I'm very sure it was a personal experience or experience of someone who he trusted that caused him to write that.
I think it's important to note that a lot of that was likely just for humor's sake. He embellished it to sell it as powerful to an audience who almost never used it, and did so in a way that was kind of funny.
@@greatestytcommentatorEDIT: This is a minor correction but…. When you mix bleach and ammonia it makes something similar to *chlorine* gas not chloroform.
@@Leo_Zeo_Lhang I believe bleach and alcohol creates chloroform. The possibilities when mixing cleaning agents are chloramines ("pool smell"), chlorine (chemical weapon), and chloroform (makes you pass out and die).
I do know that we started smoking weed by burning it as fire for various reason which ended up getting people stoned that were around the burning plants and hence mankind started smoking I think 😅
@@Tyler_Adhikari this theories been heavily questioned because weed overtime has been bred to be far more potent (such as todays weed) and previously wasn't that potent, it'd be difficult to get high from the smoke of even todays weed just being nearby you unless you're hotboxing so what about the weed of potentially 1000 years ago?
Ether is an EXTREMELY popular party drug in Brazil, mixed with Chloroform (or somethimes ethyl chloride) it is known as “Lança Perfume” (fragrance sprayer) or simply as “Loló”
It used to be ethyl chloride back in the day (first half of the 20th century), specially used during carnival time. But since it was banned in the 60’s it morphed into a simper “homemade” version that is essentially Ether+Chloroform. Btw recently some people have even been using >anti-spatter agent< (as a cheaper substitute) instead lmao
Usually I don't comment on random videos but this is beautiful content! The pacing of your speech, the imagery, the music, they're all fantastic and despite the subject matter it was a really soothing video and super easy to listen to. Thank you, I'll definitely check out more of your content :)
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Yes, dr.sporessss I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
They are God, and have been persecuted as witchcraft and illicit substances for 2000 years in the west. It is a conspiracy, a coverup. And the medical industry wants to keep it this way.
In Brazil, ether based drugs are quite common. Loló is the most popular one, being a cheaper and homemade alternative to lança perfume, which has to be made through a industrial process. Loló is basically ether, acetone and formaldehyde mixed together. During carnival in Olinda, you can find it being sold in every corner, and people huffing it everywhere.
Not formaldehyde, I am sure, or even acetone. Lança perfume was basically Ethyl Chloride when it was legal, and it was typically used during the carnival, before prohibition in 1964. Later, people began using variable mixtures of chloroform, ether and anesthetics smuggled from hospitals as surrogates and called them loló, but ether by itself was never popular in Brazil.
Utterly fascinating subject, love details of older life like this which get completely wiped out by the passage of time but completely dominated life in the past (like the bi-phasic sleep of the pre-industrial age) - a fantastic piece!
@@lukiso5734two rounds of sleep per day. when I was living in southern Thailand I saw it with the rubber tree farmers. tap the trees at night (around midnight til near dawn) and do some other farming, errands and socializing during the part of the day, sleeping during part of the day and then again in the evening before going to cut the rubber again. ❤
Psilocybin mushrooms healed me . I can't explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening . I also started micro dosing . It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety .
I absolutely LOVE the artwork on this video, man! And you're narration as well. I like your down to earth way of speaking, including the curse words in places where they fit perfectly and make me laugh. Thanks, man!
My former roommate and good buddy has a really friendly stoic demeanor. He doesnt really drink or smoke weed, he is more of a do acid ever two years kind of guy. He has always been like this other than for about eighteen months he very methodically did a new drug every weekend. He was so in control always even on meth. He just has aplomb i dont know how else to say it. Doesnt have any mental health problems. Did a bunch of drugs that started with 2C. Weird stuff online from Shulgin. Its weird because he just wanted to try them and he never repeated any. He also was a chemistry major and synthesized his own ether and he said it was the inly drug that scared him. I dont know if he was scared at other times and forgot. I dont know how good a chem major would be at synthesizing ether somewhere somehow. I dont know if a lot of that calm demeanor and stoicism is just an act. But ether is the one that he said was scary. And the one he doesnt recommend. Its weird to describe someone who has done every drug as sober minded. But he really is. He did opiates and meth and says he understands the addiction potential and doesnt recommend them. But ether was the scary one
Nice use of AI to keep in line with the aesthetic! (Thanks for mentioning it in the description, too, and not taking credit❤) Although I do sometimes get a little spooked when I look at the screen and see those hands! Eesh!
I'm from Latvia (a baltic country to the south of Estonia) and I have never heard of anyone consuming ether today or in the past, nor can I find sources in my own language. I believe it has happened but maybe not so widespread or maybe nobody wished to record something like this. We have jokes about diluting pure ethanol with water for cheap booze, but that's the closest thing to it. Very interesting video, fascinating how a trend can be so wideapread yet in the near future noone remembers it anymore.
I'm Estonian and I have heard about people huffing it these days. I think I've even seen someone sell boxes of it online in local sales ads. Though, as far as I'm aware it's popularity is mainly contained to Võrumaa (Southern Estonia). At least that is the only region where I've seen or heard of it still being something that people use.
@@LandoShmetzP. Not assuming anything, just stating what I know/have heard of the matter. Flaunting your ignorance as something to be proud of is pathetic though. Maybe, if you stopped staring at horse testicles and cowboys on your computer screen and picked up a book once in a while, you wouldn't be so out of touch with the world.
Balticum or the Baltic states consist of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia exclusively! Scandinavia consist of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. If you add Finland and Iceland you get 'The Nordic States'. Anyways, great video!
I was staying at a friend of a friend's place one weekend in Baltimore so that I could attend Otakon, a large anime convention. This was sometime in the early aughts. They let me stay in one of the roommate's rooms that wasn't there at the time. They told me the jar on the desk is ether that the person who lives in that room made, and that i could help myself. Upon careful consideration I opted out of trying it 😆
Random stuff can be ... random. It could have been anything. I'll never forget how a coke dealer died &, at the wake, his ashes were in a bowl on the table, awaiting respectful scattering. The wake-goers mistook the ashes for the obvious, and snorted him
@@xenostim I've seen human ashes and I've seen coke, and the two don't even slightly resemble each other. You would never, never, never, etc mix them up. They also don't put people's ashes out in bowls to scatter, that's just stupid. Nobody displays ashes, because nobody wants to see them. And a wake is supposed to happen BEFORE a funeral, which happens before cremation. It's just a bullshit re-telling of someone who heard the story about Keith Richards snorting his dad's ashes, which is also almost certainly bullshit, though I don't think Keith denies it. Does make him sound very Keith Richards-ish. But I can't imagine that anyone would. Most "ashes" is just bone fragments. They crush them up with metal balls in a special mill, to break it down from larger chunks, which might disturb a family to see. Some of the bones naturally crumble into ashes after the intense heat takes away the structure (the collagen, basically). But again it's nothing you could stand to snort. Most of a person just goes up the chimney, as steam and CO2. Only the bones are really left, and then only the minerals, the collagen also turns into CO2 + H2O. Bullshit all day long. I have to wonder how Vaughan will "never forget" how "a coke dealer". I don't suppose you knew the guy, Vaughan? Never forget an urban legend, mate! Or else whoever told you was bullshitting you.
It is a drug that is very hard to dose and requires close monitoring of various vital signs to prevent overdosing. In this way, it is very similar to other dangerous drugs in use today. What is interesting to me is how dangerous life became for regular people with the advent of industrial-scale chemical production.
We (Irish People) still take the pledge if we're catholic during our comfirmation, to say we won't drink till we're 18. Also the irish version of bootleg alcohol is called Poitin and is still made illegally today.
Mushrooms / shrooms are not in the pledge , thanks Fu74 , My dad got me drunk on my comfirmation day , got me up at 4am the next day to go fishing , while fishing in the irish sea about 1 mile off the coast he said , you can drink if you want , but you have to get up and go to school / work. man what a day , i did not get sick , i was not well but , what a day 🤪
I had a friend who was a chemist at a food testing lab who would get it, and I inhaled it several times recreationally. Pretty accurate description, like alcohol but with a mild psychedelic effect. Only thing it left out was that I would always get EXTREMELY tired after about an hour and fall asleep. Very caustic to inhale, i cannot imagine drinking it..... smells like permanent markers x1000. would not recommend lol. Although I really think the Hunter S. Thompson reputation is quite overblown, if you do too much you just kinda fall asleep, its not the type of thing you can go be debaucherous on.
All they did was stumble into a bar and sit at a bar waiting for mescaline to kick in.. Also it has no psychedelic component 🤦 Literally everything described points to dissociative qualities. Hence its use as an anesthetic.
@@Ryan88881Yeah I have done a pretty high dose of ether and can confirm there aren't really any psychedelic effects at all apart from very strong monochromatic phosphines. Even at a high dose there was nothing "enlightening", just weird artificial euforia and strong time streching + extreme dissociation. However I still saw an awake dream of going backwards in time while on ether but it wasn't a clear psychedelic headspace at all, more like a delirious "laggy" zoning out
6:15 Just because diethyl ether is made by heating a mix of sulfuric acid and ethyl alcohol does not mean there's any sulfur in the distilled product. Sulfuric acid is only a catalyst. The Reaction looks a bit like this: CH2-CHOH + CH2CHOH -> CH2-CHOCH-CH2 + H2O But since the boiling point of ether is two degrees Celsius below the core body temperature of a human, drinking the liquid will lead to rapid production of a lot of gas, which is belched out, or turns into flatulence. Now why exactly the flatulence would be so pungent, apart from the compound itself having a pungent odor, I think it's a mix of ether's effects on the nervous system upsetting the stomach and leading to accelerated movements of the bowels and the high gas volume triggering the gastrocolic reflex.
One time in middle school I got accused of huffing paint, apparently just having paint is suspicious. The principal was dumbfounded when I asked what sense that makes when ether costs a third as much.
I remember as a kid watching a Looney tunes cartoon doing a reference to this. The segment was called "Water Water Every Hare". There was a scene were Bugs Bunny and a mad scientist accidentally breaks open a bottle of ether.
Psychedelic and psychotropic are two different things. DME is volatile solvent alike alcohol in action. Strong depressant. Can cause psychotic symptoms if abused for long or with high enthusiasm, but not because itself, but cuz of brain damage it causes (alike alcohol)
Ether often caused nausea in surgical patients. My Father had his face mangled by in dog as a small child in the 1930's. He vomited and blew his freshly reattached nose off when awakening. It was redone then without anesthesia. There is an episode of M.A.S.H. where they lack supplies and use ether. Fire brakes out. Where is the fire worse? In the patients respiratory systems!
I went through a short phase with ether in my university days, I had a mate studying Chemistry who filched it from the lab. We'd inhale it rather than drinking. I found it better and less toxic than Nitromore's Paint Remover, but with the same kind of effect. Luckily the phase passed before I was able to blow up my halls of residence.
This video is amazing and your format is also incredible! wondering, are you the one that draw the pictures? in any case, amazing job on each video! thanks!
Pretty sure that artist is AI... Those hands, faces, and textures look the part. Hands with fingers that blend in on themselves. Faces melting. Textures looking muddy, with folds on clothes looking weightless. 07:31 is a prime example of the things mentioned above Fingers Face Texture (especially the hair) All of it looks wrong
@@svenjansen2134 he wanted to go out like he lived: on his terms, not yours or wider societies. His loved ones were looked after and adults so what did he do wrong better yet who are you to judge?
@@svenjansen2134 Twisted, but not overly so. Thompson was appropriately warped for his role in life and no more no less. He was also a man of his word, he always said he'd leave life behind as soon as it stopped being fun enough. Absolutely refused to live life on anyone's terms but his own, even refused to let old age make demands of him
My great grandmother died of ether poisoning She went for a dental appointment and ether was the antithetic that they used my grandmother was only nine years old at that time had to be in the early 1900’s in USA but I don’t remember what State that they were in at that time. I heard that it was quite commonly used for an antithetic, especially in dentistry where as it was perceived to be the best treatment for dental surgery. I wish you’d do another video on how prevalent this was in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s But I really enjoyed your videos and I’m subscribed now Going to check out more of your content now
Ether was a miracle for the medicine of surgery. Before ether, very few people could survive what we consider today the most basic of surgery. Most would rather die than undergoe surgery.
A friend told me of his Polish grandfather’s cocktail of ether and high proof spirits called smeerkies (sp?). It was the drink of his younger days in the old country.
That Swiss physician was called Paracelsus not Parcelsus. His real name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim . He named himself after Celsus a Greek philosopher. Para means equal to. Para-celsus. He is considered to be the father of toxicology.
We put some stuff in our tractor air lines so they don’t freeze In the winter and the old guys call it ether, idk if that’s what they used back in the 70’s & 80’s but Im pretty sure the stuff we use is similar to rubbing alcohol
The effect is like booze, poppers and nangs mixed into one (in other words, boring and nothing like in Fear and Loathing) and it's honestly not even fun, though for some reason when you're high you get the urge to re-dose. The reason why it sucks so much is because it also burns your throat and nostrils and will make you reek of chemicals for a day afterwards. Don't feel like you're missing out if you never try it (oh and it's also extremely flammable and can burn your skin/eyes on contact).
Ive gotta try it some day. Hunter S Thompson is one of my favorite writers. Before i knew about Thompson, I started taking drugs. I first smoked weed at 10. I first did acid at 12. Today as a 25 year old and a trans woman as of 2 years, I named myself after slang for acid and have a tattoo of the molecule. I love drugs, especially psychedelics. I have tried (nearly) every drug you can name, that can be done without basically just dying. For the common person, I have tried every drug they can name. Ive also tried hundreds of research chemicals you almost definitely can't name lol. I love drugs 💕 I see them like a collection, a collection of experiences. I love seeing all of the different ways one can alter their consciousness and some of the most beautiful experiences of my life have been drug experiences. You may think I'm some druggie loser, but I do also have a degree in a complicated scientific field and I do very well for myself. I'm very happy, I've had tons of pretty amazing non-drug related experiences, an equally successful boyfriend I'm very happy with, and I've never been actually addicted to anything despite even trying heroin and meth, just for the experience. I just love drugs. I've even tried drugs that are horrific. No one should ever try them except for my reason, just for the experience. For example Benadryl in high quantites and Datura, which produce an absolutely hellish nightmare delerium that can commonly involve seeing things that actually aren't even there. Imagine how movies portray acid, except make it terrifying, I once spoke to my dead grandmother with her flesh falling off her face for an hour then looked at the clock, looked back, and she was gone. And the spiders... Everrywhere. They happen to have always been my biggest fear even before taking them. Knowing I would see them all over me going into it you can imagine how dedicated I was to be taking that shit. I never will again. It was truly a nightmare, in it's purest form. I've had the experience and I'm satisfied. But anyways, there are a few drugs I haven't done. Desomorphine is one (commonly known as krokodil) because it's extremely hard to get without it being contaminated with insane shit that can even cause necrosis. Mainly drugs that can NOT be done safely, at least unless you have it totally pure like desomorphine. And a few drugs have just alluded me. For example qualludes. I've certainly tried. I have a cryptocurrency quallude fund. Any time they come up on the dark net while I'm on I immediately put in my bitcoin and hope to the god I don't believe in that it goes through... Every time they've sold out before the information processes. And, Ether. I first heard about Ether exactly in that line in the book you quoted and it really intrigued me. It stuck with me. But I haven't even heard it mentioned anywhere since unfortunately. Maybe some day I'll find it and I can report back. I also have a pretty decent chemistry background so maybe I'll try synthesizing it. The flammability definitely scares me though as a drug enthusiast who uses lots of lighters lol. Ether is definitely interesting. I didn't know the history of it though. Great video!
I once was trying to light a trash fire in a strong wind. There was a spray can of ether on the shelf for starting diesel truck engines in the cold, cold winter. I had a Collie pet dog at the time. I had no experience with ether but the writing on the side of the can said "extremely flammable". I figured "That'll do!". I sprayed some on a sheet of corrugated cardboard & tried to light it. The liquid evaporated before I could light it with a match. I tried it again & the same thing happened. Then I soaked it really good & lit it off. It exploded with a loud bang & still didn't ignite the paper. I took the ether back & put it back where I found it & never touched ether again. I found another, more sensible, way to start the fire. The dog cussed & swore for 15 minutes like a truck driver, criticizing me for doing such a dangerous thing. Listen to dogs when they give you advice!!!
I believe intoxication is a proper part of the human experience. I just find it hard to believe that a human being who is properly conscious and adventurous enough for good company wouldn’t find themselves absolutely plastered at least twice in their lives. And I mean twice. Only doing it once means it scared you too much. Only doing it twice MAY lie with principal.
I hope you're joking. There is absolutely no need to be intoxicated even once. If you want to and can use it responsibly, feel free to do so. But it is not some essential part of life.
@@olivercharles2930 Whoa, mate . . . you're venturing into a complex philosophlcal question that has been explored for millenia: "What is the Essence of being Human (?)"
Is ether considered a psychedelic? I was under the impression that label was limited to drugs that mimic seratonin and unless I’m mistaken ether works by a completely different mechanism
Depends, maybe clinically. But in everyday use, psychedelic is literally a synonym for hallucinogenic. It's broadly applied to any substance that causes hallucinations upon consumption. Maybe if you're a serious researcher or erowid admin you might care about the difference but most people don't have any awareness of the word psychedelic being specifically linked to serotonergic substances.
Dude, if you are the one who is making the watercolor images, 1.) please keep doing them they look amazing 2.) I'd greatly appreciate you making a tutorial on how to paint in that style.
A form of eather is one of the most popular drugs in brazil nowadays, its called Lolo and its the kind of thing you will have at least a couple friends that use it in feasts
Met a guy named Jared Holderman from Dayton Ohio. Told me he used to do air dusters. I'm not going to describe how to use it, but I felt like we're too different. Who does that💯
The smelling like sulphur for months, weeks, even days is disturbing enough. Forming a hypothesis on the woo + science of Ether now. Thanks for some history.
I'm Irish. I did an Irish history course in college and I had no clue about this ether business 😅 thanks for educating me. You might do a video on the gin epidemic in England sometime??
@horses you say: "its not even the ether itself but the vapor" insinuating that the ether itself is more flameable however: The vapor is more flameable than the ether itself, since it has most likely formed a nice gas mixture with oxygen
good old Ether! had this introduced to me in an insane paty by a bearded Doctor we were all high on Cali, Colombian coke! and I had second thought about doing it with Coke and Alcohol but he said it was ok!. I mean a bearded Doctor was offering it I said ok! mad shit I tell ya!
I did quite a lot of ether a few years ago. Its like ket and nangs mixed together. A few days after a binge, you’d sporadically get a whiff of it, i assume as it evaporated from inside your lungs.
I hate ai art but I have to give you that you nailed it. Making a video like this with animators would take thousands of dollars. This is a tasteful example of ai visuals. Was the art inspired by Egon Schile? Some prompts remind of of him and a bit of Van Gogh ( potato eaters)
Well, the only negatives you mentioned were bad smell, short effective time and popularity among poor ppl (a little bit addictive, but no worries, psychologically) As if it was not deadly
Not true, its very dangerous. It's a solvent, so it's neurotoxic and will cause brain damage. Maybe not as bad as huffing gasoline, but don't think its safe just cuz he glossed over the dangers. We know more now than they did back then. Brain damage wasn't on their radar
it can make you mad paranoid when you get into a thought loop about some weird shit if you are doing it for a long time. Like aliens, medical experiments, etc. I recall lookin at a air compressor and thinking 'is this the kind of technology a invasion fleet on earth would use? Shit I almost signed up for strategic air command after that. I was like thinkin about 1950's paperwork, compressed air technology and bunkers. SCARY SHIT BRO
@cdrom1070 what a rich exp bro They would be scared to take you to an army after that But was it a direct influence of the drug described in the vid - ether?
bro lol relax I am just saying it can make you trip serious balls if you think about certain things be real careful and sparing. and no the place it will take you is hiding out in the mountains, you won't want to be near any kind of human power structure. LMFAO I can imagine how you would feel having to be around missiles, officers, etc after a weekend of ether. That would not end well. If you get to that point just lay down till you fall asleep AND NEVER THE DAY BEFORE WORK. That one is not that bad to explain if you don't have work, you got too drunk and spilled some paint thinner while doing drunken minor home repairs. Wondering if you have ether breath is the worst thing ever. Worse then weed breath. @@vstecliuk6555
Even engines get addicted to ether. Something about how it will cause damage to the engine, all but requiring that you use ether to start it on into the future.
What a weak ending. You didn’t tie back to the whole point you started with, lol. It felt like it ended halfway through the story. I want a part 2. Leaving us on a cliffhanger wtf.
The beginning sounds eerily like the contents of my dining room table every weekend in the 80' s & 90' s...that Queens of the Stone Age song ' Feel Good Hit For The Summer ' summed up life for 25+ yrs...I enjoyed every single second 😉
There used to be some sweets in the UK called victory v’s that used to contain liquorice, ether and Chlorodyne ( a mixture of cannabis, opium, alcohol and chloroform) AFAIK the ether and chloroform were still in them till the late 80’s. They are still available today but with synthetic ether flavouring
is the art AI generated? I don't understand how do you get such perfect images in a very similar style that function perfectly for the theme you are speaking of
I went to a party in the early 1970's where a girl was huffing ether from a quart bottle that she had stolen from a hospital.
She offered me a hit.
I was immediately in a total blackout, senseless.
After a few minutes I came back to myself standing in the same spot, I don't know how long I was out but I gave her the bottle back and quickly left her sitting there on the floor huffing away.
It was a terrifying experience, one I will never repeat.
I was like that with duster and spray paint
Coward
@@Pliko3you have to inhale alot of duster to have something like that happen. Duster is essentially like doing whip-its, ive never had an experience where i blacked out doing duster, but maybe i didnt go as hard at it as you chose to.
Woow.... that's awesome lol. I'm sick I know. was it really terrifying. I wonder what it is people that get used to it keep going back for.
@@dextersbeard3472duster is nitrous? I thought it was just compressed air! 😅
Another prime example of the fact that people will always get high or intoxicated on something, no matter what that thing is. It’s all about availability and price and always has been. This is why the war on drugs is a ridiculous waste of time and resources.
Total non sequitur.
And waste of lives..
@@ThatMans-anAnimal The war on drugs is a failure and only served to imprison people for years for cheap labor, disproportionately affecting minorities. it has contributed to the US having the most slaves/prisoners. drug use has only went up in the US since the war on drugs. meanwhile other developed countries have largely fixed their problems such as Portugal; which legalized all drugs in 2001 and instead sent people to optional rehab centers to to get treatment.
@@cydonia2780 "the most slaves/prisoners."
What about the war on drugs lead to slavery? what an incredibly weird / far reach entirely caused by polictical ideology fueled by your desire to "protect" groups
@@user-kc7se9te7g US has famously more prisoners than Stalins USSR had
And what dk you think these prisoners do all day?
Psychedelic was mind blowing for me. I found myself in a world where swirling colors created a mesmerizing kaleidoscope. Time stretched as I explored cosmic landscapes, feeling a profound connection to everything. It left me with a deep sense of peace and wonder, realizing the limitless potential of the mind. 0:02
Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness
How can I get help ?
0:01 dr.johnsonshroom is the person you want. He's the most knowledgeable about
psychedelics that I know.
@@JuanMadelineHe's on insta??
Yes, dude is excellent 0:01
I have been a chemical operator at various companies in the Greater St. Louis area for over a decade. I am also a former avid drug enthusiast. I have worked with Ether and it's many other sister compounds, and I tell you what! Nothing is scarier than a group of 7 men all standing around laughing their asses off at the word mop bucket. It's dangerous, but that high is something else.
"mop bucket" that is pretty funny ngl
That’s two words.
I'm gonna keep details out but yeah it's freaking scary... *Especially* when stimulants are in use... I don't want to risk people going literally psychotic around me anymore. I'm happy doing crazy shit alone. It once got so bad for someone that I had to give the motherfucker an actual anti-psychotic.
I keep anti-psychotics on me for those situations, they're much better insurance than anything else. They're not for myself, let's put it like that.
@@chadclay1643 the only way you get this hook up is by having a big set of nuts, not being a moron, and the willingness to kick your own ass into the ground every day.
'mop bucket', that is hysterical.
As an antique bottle collector, I have come across many British "Bateman's Chlorodyne" bottles. There were other brands of chlorodyne, but most of them contained morphine or opium, cannabis Indica, chloroform or ether and other substances, in a solution of alcoholic spirits. The bottle dumps of the U.K. are filled with these bottles and are identifiable by the cobalt blue glass, embossed ridges and the words "NOT TO BE TAKEN" embossed sideways on the bottle. It was labeled as a poison to deter abuse, but was definitely intended for consumption by the patient or customer.
Thats the same way legal highs operated untill the law changed in the late 2010's. Funny that, thnx for sharing.
Not for human consumption is code for human consumption. Even back then. I love it.
reminds me of some salvia ive purchased
Ah...the good olde daze...
same thing they do with rc’s nowadays
Ether and glue were a major problem in the 90s in many post-soviet countries, esp. Russia where people and kids were high on glue because there were no other (hard) drugs readily available. It's crazy to what lengths people would go to get high for a couple of minutes.
Leonmycology...
Very intresting and very beautifully done. I'm from Europe and I didn't know about this. You lean something new every day 😌
is the drug lean, is that the joke
@@jaysonkstone. there’s a high likelihood that this man, ravenwhite673 , also took the wok to poland .
Your typo got you top comment. Lean is also a conqueror drug
Europe? England and Ireland,who r historical enemies due to evil colonizing English,isn't Europe.
@@jaysonkstonenah brah.. the joke is: Wtf are you talking about ?
A couple notes on this video from a chemistry perspective:
- Ether does reek but it does not smell like sulfur at all because it doesnt actually contain any and high purity ether has always been super easy to make. I can only describe the smell as being a very strong, almost sweet chemical smell.
- Ether not only used as an anesthetic, it's been widely used as a solvent (basically a substance that's used to dissolve other chemicals) for basically the entire industrial era because of its chemical properties and how cheap it is. This is probably why it was always so accessible to people.
As a sidenote, anyone who's taken an organic chemistry class has probably handled ether before, and I've never met anyone who wasn't totally adverse to the smell of it. Besides that, its so volatile that you can see the fumes coming off of it at room temperature. Any time I've worked with it, I left the lab with a headache. So, the idea of drinking it is so crazy to me
THATS WHAT I KEEP THINKING BRO LIKE THEY DRANK IT??? IT WAS NORMALIZED? hUH
As a person who has huffed Ether less than a year ago, i find this video to be super interesting, but also a bit misleading. Drinking Ether is terrible for you as it boils in your stomach leading to a build up of gas, causing rupture. Huffing Ether in moderate dosages only causes you to smell terrible. Also an Ether high is far from an alchohol high. Ether is a dissociative psychedelic, and people who have never taken other dissociatives relate it to alcohol, but it is way closer to Nitrous or dxm. I am I no way condoning Ether use, as it is very dangerous to store and use, and never drink it, huff it or turn it into prince Ruperts drops.
I definitely -wont- huff, drink, or turn it into prince Rupert drops.
how does one turn ether to rupert drops?????????
Well I wasn’t gonna turn it into Prince Ruperts drops until you implied that that was an option :p
Is ether subject to the same issues as other inhalants like butane or something? That being the whole possibility of sudden sniffing death syndrome and also just general horrible things it does to your mind and body. Or is it similar to nitrous where it’s pretty much safe given you aren’t doing it all day every day
ether is not a psychedelic (note to video writer)
My mum was a theatre nurse in the 1960s Australia & Ether was still being used as an anaesthetic: dripped carefully on a mask held over the patient's face during the surgery. It was being phased out & replaced with other medications, but not because it was problematically flammable. Instead, because of the way that it was administered, it was sometimes difficult to get the precise dosage for certain patients - leading to them becoming partially awake during surgery.
(nb: This was less about the patient being in pain, or freaking out, but that the patient's writhing 'round was irritating the surgeons as they tried to work.l
Ether was problematic for all those reasons. The effectiveness is very uneven and too much is dangerous.
Surgeons are the fucking worst. Almost a quarter century working in hospitals and I've yet to meet an agreeable one.
When I was six years old, I got my tonsils removed and they knocked me out with ether. (Hungary, early 90s)
This is the first TH-cam content I’ve ever seen about the ether epidemic! I remember reading that Moneymore, a small town close to where I grew up, was an early epicentre. It was so bizarre to think that this sleepy little Ulster town was the site of one of the first modern drug epidemics.
Nobody knows this, I’ve loved reading about drugs and related topics for years and that’s the inly reason I know about it. Impressive to see a TH-cam video on it.
What the hell? This is a criminally underappreciated channel.
Very well done on writing, delivery, and visuals. Just keep going man, success is bound to follow such good quality.
Beat me too it I came here to say thing
They're AI generated visuals.
@@-._Radixerus_.- Two out of three ain't bad. And if he had those but needed the last, I'm glad he found something to make it work. 🤷♂️
@@-._Radixerus_.-still look good though
@@patchez058 picked well at least. my eyes only needed a little bleach
I actually had a classmate who had claimed to enjoy sitting on the football field at night with a blanket covered in starting fluid because it made him feel good. Now that actually makes sense I guess.
I'm going to assume he was a nonsmoker.
Man he could have just cut out the middle man and straight huffed the shit. I’m glad he didn’t tho
@@tiki_trash prolly was a smoker tbh
@@tiki_trash he was a smoker, shit later in life he got to tweakin. dude was smart as a whip though, just made a lot of negligent life decisions. how it goes I guess
@@MementoMurray tweakin ?
It's always recommended to consult with a qualified healthcare professional before considering any psychedelic therapy.
The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself.
I've been thinking to use psychedelics for my anxiety and depression.
Does anyone know where I can source them?
Yeah doc.coby_
Psychedelic should only be used with great care and respect.
Is he on Instagram?
Yes @Doc.coby
So, after watching all that, we're still left with the question of why Hunter S. Thompson was so scared of it. Seems like even schoolchildren could drink it before class.
I don't think Hunter S. should be taken as a reliable authority on . . . anything.
He was an old man; I bet you he saw and heard of many personal stories of how fucked it was. I'm very sure it was a personal experience or experience of someone who he trusted that caused him to write that.
I think it's important to note that a lot of that was likely just for humor's sake. He embellished it to sell it as powerful to an audience who almost never used it, and did so in a way that was kind of funny.
Much as I've enjoyed his writing, I have a sneaking suspicion that Thompson was - in fact - full of shit.
Yea he set up that question at the beginning and never answered it. Didn't even have any examples of people doing something hugely fucked on ether.
ACE used to be the big anaesthetic trio: Alcohol, Chloroform, and Æther.
People died all the time. 😬😬😬
Yes, ether was the safest of the three and it's still widely used despite it's flammability.
My wife accidentally made chloroform whilst cleaning the toilet.
@@greatestytcommentatorWhat in the hell?!?
@@greatestytcommentatorEDIT: This is a minor correction but….
When you mix bleach and ammonia it makes something similar to *chlorine* gas not chloroform.
@@Leo_Zeo_Lhang I believe bleach and alcohol creates chloroform. The possibilities when mixing cleaning agents are chloramines ("pool smell"), chlorine (chemical weapon), and chloroform (makes you pass out and die).
So if YOU know who invented opium and cocaine, and smoking weed, why don't you tell us?! Because I sure as hell don't know!
I do know that we started smoking weed by burning it as fire for various reason which ended up getting people stoned that were around the burning plants and hence mankind started smoking I think 😅
God
@@rodmena3404 love the implication that god didnt invent ether lmao
all the info in this video is bs.
@@Tyler_Adhikari this theories been heavily questioned because weed overtime has been bred to be far more potent (such as todays weed) and previously wasn't that potent, it'd be difficult to get high from the smoke of even todays weed just being nearby you unless you're hotboxing so what about the weed of potentially 1000 years ago?
Ether is an EXTREMELY popular party drug in Brazil, mixed with Chloroform (or somethimes ethyl chloride) it is known as “Lança Perfume” (fragrance sprayer) or simply as “Loló”
It used to be ethyl chloride back in the day (first half of the 20th century), specially used during carnival time. But since it was banned in the 60’s it morphed into a simper “homemade” version that is essentially Ether+Chloroform. Btw recently some people have even been using >anti-spatter agent< (as a cheaper substitute) instead lmao
Tricloroetileno e diclorometano é a praga brasileira, altamente cancerígena e alta fatalidade (loló não tem nada de clorofórmio na mistura)
Keep explaining pls
so they put it on the napkin and shove it on mouth for a minutes ?
we smell the vapors lol
Usually I don't comment on random videos but this is beautiful content! The pacing of your speech, the imagery, the music, they're all fantastic and despite the subject matter it was a really soothing video and super easy to listen to. Thank you, I'll definitely check out more of your content :)
well said
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Yes, dr.sporessss I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Yes he is. dr.sporessss
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
Can Dr. sporessss send to me in UK?
Psilocybin,LSD, shroom and ketamine are absolutely life changing substance that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues
Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life, never had a bad trip
They are God, and have been persecuted as witchcraft and illicit substances for 2000 years in the west. It is a conspiracy, a coverup. And the medical industry wants to keep it this way.
beware these are all bots 🤖🤖🤖
@@cd-7089 bots for keta is crazy
Also risky and possibly harmful to play with without proper education or a good support structure, counseling and wise elders etc
In Brazil, ether based drugs are quite common. Loló is the most popular one, being a cheaper and homemade alternative to lança perfume, which has to be made through a industrial process. Loló is basically ether, acetone and formaldehyde mixed together. During carnival in Olinda, you can find it being sold in every corner, and people huffing it everywhere.
THEY HUFFING FORMALDEHYDE OVER THERE?
Yummy formaldehyde and acetone
My favourite
Not formaldehyde, I am sure, or even acetone. Lança perfume was basically Ethyl Chloride when it was legal, and it was typically used during the carnival, before prohibition in 1964. Later, people began using variable mixtures of chloroform, ether and anesthetics smuggled from hospitals as surrogates and called them loló, but ether by itself was never popular in Brazil.
Utterly fascinating subject, love details of older life like this which get completely wiped out by the passage of time but completely dominated life in the past (like the bi-phasic sleep of the pre-industrial age) - a fantastic piece!
What's bi-phasic sleep
@@lukiso5734two rounds of sleep per day.
when I was living in southern Thailand I saw it with the rubber tree farmers. tap the trees at night (around midnight til near dawn) and do some other farming, errands and socializing during the part of the day, sleeping during part of the day and then again in the evening before going to cut the rubber again.
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Psilocybin mushrooms healed me . I can't explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening . I also started micro dosing . It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety .
I've been looking to get my hands on shrooms for my anxiety and stress levels . Any one knows where I can source ? 0:27
@@AngelinaEvelyndr.johnsonshroom is your guy. Best shrooms and psychedelics guy I know. 0:06
@@RobinsonFelix-mt4zgdr.johnsonshroom is the best . He's been my go to for anything psychedelics and shrooms . He's very good 0:04
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0:16 @@StellaJenifer-bw3loGolden Teacher was one of my best experiences . Anxiety and depression are no more.
I absolutely LOVE the artwork on this video, man! And you're narration as well. I like your down to earth way of speaking, including the curse words in places where they fit perfectly and make me laugh.
Thanks, man!
Agreed this is top tier content
What was the prompt you put into Midjourney??
@@jonathanstevenson6753 probably ether egon schiele lol
I agree, wonderful illustrations. I also note that ether usage was central to one of the characters in the novel "Cider House Rules."
It's just AI dude
This channel is so underrated. Am about to binge all these videos, I love your style.
My former roommate and good buddy has a really friendly stoic demeanor. He doesnt really drink or smoke weed, he is more of a do acid ever two years kind of guy. He has always been like this other than for about eighteen months he very methodically did a new drug every weekend. He was so in control always even on meth. He just has aplomb i dont know how else to say it. Doesnt have any mental health problems. Did a bunch of drugs that started with 2C. Weird stuff online from Shulgin.
Its weird because he just wanted to try them and he never repeated any. He also was a chemistry major and synthesized his own ether and he said it was the inly drug that scared him. I dont know if he was scared at other times and forgot. I dont know how good a chem major would be at synthesizing ether somewhere somehow.
I dont know if a lot of that calm demeanor and stoicism is just an act. But ether is the one that he said was scary. And the one he doesnt recommend. Its weird to describe someone who has done every drug as sober minded. But he really is. He did opiates and meth and says he understands the addiction potential and doesnt recommend them. But ether was the scary one
Maybe because it's so easy to make. Surlfuric acid and alcohol are pretty common substances so a chem major should have an abundant supply.
is your former roommate Hamilton Morris
Psychonaut...great folks!
Hey that’s me I’m not him but that’s how I work to YOLO experience is everything
Too much ether can cause death. That's what makes it dangerous.
Nice use of AI to keep in line with the aesthetic! (Thanks for mentioning it in the description, too, and not taking credit❤)
Although I do sometimes get a little spooked when I look at the screen and see those hands! Eesh!
I'm from Latvia (a baltic country to the south of Estonia) and I have never heard of anyone consuming ether today or in the past, nor can I find sources in my own language. I believe it has happened but maybe not so widespread or maybe nobody wished to record something like this. We have jokes about diluting pure ethanol with water for cheap booze, but that's the closest thing to it. Very interesting video, fascinating how a trend can be so wideapread yet in the near future noone remembers it anymore.
I'm Estonian and I have heard about people huffing it these days. I think I've even seen someone sell boxes of it online in local sales ads. Though, as far as I'm aware it's popularity is mainly contained to Võrumaa (Southern Estonia). At least that is the only region where I've seen or heard of it still being something that people use.
Lol you both assume we know where Estonia is.
@LandoShmetzP. We aren't worried about rude people ignorant of geography
@@LandoShmetzP. Not assuming anything, just stating what I know/have heard of the matter. Flaunting your ignorance as something to be proud of is pathetic though. Maybe, if you stopped staring at horse testicles and cowboys on your computer screen and picked up a book once in a while, you wouldn't be so out of touch with the world.
@@richardwelsh7901 and yet "(a baltic country to the south of Estonia)" would seem to negate what you just said.
dude your videos are an absolute pleasure to watch...thank you for sharing them with us :)
Balticum or the Baltic states consist of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia exclusively!
Scandinavia consist of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. If you add Finland and Iceland you get 'The Nordic States'.
Anyways, great video!
I was staying at a friend of a friend's place one weekend in Baltimore so that I could attend Otakon, a large anime convention. This was sometime in the early aughts. They let me stay in one of the roommate's rooms that wasn't there at the time. They told me the jar on the desk is ether that the person who lives in that room made, and that i could help myself. Upon careful consideration I opted out of trying it 😆
Random stuff can be ... random. It could have been anything. I'll never forget how a coke dealer died &, at the wake, his ashes were in a bowl on the table, awaiting respectful scattering. The wake-goers mistook the ashes for the obvious, and snorted him
@@cisvaughan6937 that is fatherless behavior right there /facepalm. were you there or something, or are you pulling my chain?
@@xenostim I've seen human ashes and I've seen coke, and the two don't even slightly resemble each other. You would never, never, never, etc mix them up.
They also don't put people's ashes out in bowls to scatter, that's just stupid. Nobody displays ashes, because nobody wants to see them. And a wake is supposed to happen BEFORE a funeral, which happens before cremation.
It's just a bullshit re-telling of someone who heard the story about Keith Richards snorting his dad's ashes, which is also almost certainly bullshit, though I don't think Keith denies it. Does make him sound very Keith Richards-ish. But I can't imagine that anyone would.
Most "ashes" is just bone fragments. They crush them up with metal balls in a special mill, to break it down from larger chunks, which might disturb a family to see. Some of the bones naturally crumble into ashes after the intense heat takes away the structure (the collagen, basically). But again it's nothing you could stand to snort. Most of a person just goes up the chimney, as steam and CO2. Only the bones are really left, and then only the minerals, the collagen also turns into CO2 + H2O.
Bullshit all day long. I have to wonder how Vaughan will "never forget" how "a coke dealer". I don't suppose you knew the guy, Vaughan? Never forget an urban legend, mate! Or else whoever told you was bullshitting you.
It is a drug that is very hard to dose and requires close monitoring of various vital signs to prevent overdosing. In this way, it is very similar to other dangerous drugs in use today. What is interesting to me is how dangerous life became for regular people with the advent of industrial-scale chemical production.
We (Irish People) still take the pledge if we're catholic during our comfirmation, to say we won't drink till we're 18. Also the irish version of bootleg alcohol is called Poitin and is still made illegally today.
And it is absolute rocket fuel
Mushrooms / shrooms are not in the pledge ,
thanks Fu74 , My dad got me drunk on my comfirmation day , got me up at 4am the next day to go fishing , while fishing in the irish sea about 1 mile off the coast he said , you can drink if you want , but you have to get up and go to school / work.
man what a day , i did not get sick , i was not well but , what a day
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Moonshine
I broke my pledge the day I made it lmao
@@jakejones2482 what?
I had a friend who was a chemist at a food testing lab who would get it, and I inhaled it several times recreationally. Pretty accurate description, like alcohol but with a mild psychedelic effect. Only thing it left out was that I would always get EXTREMELY tired after about an hour and fall asleep. Very caustic to inhale, i cannot imagine drinking it..... smells like permanent markers x1000. would not recommend lol. Although I really think the Hunter S. Thompson reputation is quite overblown, if you do too much you just kinda fall asleep, its not the type of thing you can go be debaucherous on.
All they did was stumble into a bar and sit at a bar waiting for mescaline to kick in.. Also it has no psychedelic component 🤦 Literally everything described points to dissociative qualities. Hence its use as an anesthetic.
@@Ryan88881Yeah I have done a pretty high dose of ether and can confirm there aren't really any psychedelic effects at all apart from very strong monochromatic phosphines. Even at a high dose there was nothing "enlightening", just weird artificial euforia and strong time streching + extreme dissociation. However I still saw an awake dream of going backwards in time while on ether but it wasn't a clear psychedelic headspace at all, more like a delirious "laggy" zoning out
Reason for it smelling like really strong permanent markers is because permanent marker ink contains small amounts of ether.
Thank you for researching this and coming out with this very informative video. R.I.P. Mr. Thompson.
Jenkem is dirtier, but I get the point.
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Just because diethyl ether is made by heating a mix of sulfuric acid and ethyl alcohol does not mean there's any sulfur in the distilled product. Sulfuric acid is only a catalyst. The Reaction looks a bit like this:
CH2-CHOH + CH2CHOH -> CH2-CHOCH-CH2 + H2O
But since the boiling point of ether is two degrees Celsius below the core body temperature of a human, drinking the liquid will lead to rapid production of a lot of gas, which is belched out, or turns into flatulence.
Now why exactly the flatulence would be so pungent, apart from the compound itself having a pungent odor, I think it's a mix of ether's effects on the nervous system upsetting the stomach and leading to accelerated movements of the bowels and the high gas volume triggering the gastrocolic reflex.
Whaaaat
So beautiful desing, so satisfying voice
Great channel with a big future
Kind words, ty 😊
“Ether, the worlds dirtiest drug”
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Beautifully done! Wonder where the visuals come from, they give me Egon Schiele vibes
100%. I bet Egon Schiele was one of the prompts to Midjourney.
One time in middle school I got accused of huffing paint, apparently just having paint is suspicious. The principal was dumbfounded when I asked what sense that makes when ether costs a third as much.
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I remember as a kid watching a Looney tunes cartoon doing a reference to this. The segment was called "Water Water Every Hare". There was a scene were Bugs Bunny and a mad scientist accidentally breaks open a bottle of ether.
This was an awesome watch, i loved it. Drug history is always so interesting to me. i hope you do more on drug history.
Thanks. Yet again another segment of history that has been in the "move along folks, nothing to see here" category. The art work is great.
Psychedelic and psychotropic are two different things. DME is volatile solvent alike alcohol in action. Strong depressant. Can cause psychotic symptoms if abused for long or with high enthusiasm, but not because itself, but cuz of brain damage it causes (alike alcohol)
Ether was known under the name of `Irish fume` some places in Norway. Now I know why.
Ether often caused nausea in surgical patients. My Father had his face mangled by in dog as a small child in the 1930's. He vomited and blew his freshly reattached nose off when awakening. It was redone then without anesthesia.
There is an episode of M.A.S.H. where they lack supplies and use ether. Fire brakes out. Where is the fire worse? In the patients respiratory systems!
I went through a short phase with ether in my university days, I had a mate studying Chemistry who filched it from the lab. We'd inhale it rather than drinking. I found it better and less toxic than Nitromore's Paint Remover, but with the same kind of effect. Luckily the phase passed before I was able to blow up my halls of residence.
This video is amazing and your format is also incredible! wondering, are you the one that draw the pictures? in any case, amazing job on each video! thanks!
best use of ai generated images ive ever seen in an actual piece of content
Incredible Illustrations!!!! Brilliant! Really enjoyed and appreciated beautiful work!!! BRAVO to the Artist, and very good video subject & Narator
Pretty sure that artist is AI... Those hands, faces, and textures look the part.
Hands with fingers that blend in on themselves.
Faces melting.
Textures looking muddy, with folds on clothes looking weightless.
07:31 is a prime example of the things mentioned above
Fingers
Face
Texture (especially the hair)
All of it looks wrong
@@liljepolak8565i mean it also just says in the description
I can remember having surgery as a young kid and the ether anesthetic gave me the worst hangover I ever experienced. This was in the late 1940s.
The important difference between Thompson and your typical ether fiend is that Thompson is a professional, so he can't get completely twisted
Drugs don’t make people bad they just let the mask slip
He shot himself that's pretty friggin twisted.
@@svenjansen2134 he wanted to go out like he lived: on his terms, not yours or wider societies. His loved ones were looked after and adults so what did he do wrong better yet who are you to judge?
@@svenjansen2134 Twisted, but not overly so. Thompson was appropriately warped for his role in life and no more no less. He was also a man of his word, he always said he'd leave life behind as soon as it stopped being fun enough. Absolutely refused to live life on anyone's terms but his own, even refused to let old age make demands of him
My great grandmother died of ether poisoning She went for a dental appointment and ether was the antithetic that they used my grandmother was only nine years old at that time had to be in the early 1900’s in USA but I don’t remember what State that they were in at that time.
I heard that it was quite commonly used for an antithetic, especially in dentistry where as it was perceived to be the best treatment for dental surgery.
I wish you’d do another video on how prevalent this was in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s
But I really enjoyed your videos and I’m subscribed now
Going to check out more of your content now
Your grandmother died when she was nine? That's tragic...
@@coreycoffell6219Like it says in the old Aerosmith tune " that cheerleader was a real young breeder"
Lol, he said Great great.
Ether was a miracle for the medicine of surgery. Before ether, very few people could survive what we consider today the most basic of surgery. Most would rather die than undergoe surgery.
I absolutely love this art style paired with information. Excellent video!
A friend told me of his Polish grandfather’s cocktail of ether and high proof spirits called smeerkies (sp?). It was the drink of his younger days in the old country.
That Swiss physician was called Paracelsus not Parcelsus. His real name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim . He named himself after Celsus a Greek philosopher. Para means equal to. Para-celsus. He is considered to be the father of toxicology.
0:03 sounds like my weekly shopping list
We put some stuff in our tractor air lines so they don’t freeze In the winter and the old guys call it ether, idk if that’s what they used back in the 70’s & 80’s but Im pretty sure the stuff we use is similar to rubbing alcohol
The effect is like booze, poppers and nangs mixed into one (in other words, boring and nothing like in Fear and Loathing) and it's honestly not even fun, though for some reason when you're high you get the urge to re-dose. The reason why it sucks so much is because it also burns your throat and nostrils and will make you reek of chemicals for a day afterwards. Don't feel like you're missing out if you never try it (oh and it's also extremely flammable and can burn your skin/eyes on contact).
Hahaha. I remember a dirty kid train hopper sitting there with his crumpled up bottle and a lit cigarette.
Ive gotta try it some day. Hunter S Thompson is one of my favorite writers. Before i knew about Thompson, I started taking drugs. I first smoked weed at 10. I first did acid at 12. Today as a 25 year old and a trans woman as of 2 years, I named myself after slang for acid and have a tattoo of the molecule. I love drugs, especially psychedelics. I have tried (nearly) every drug you can name, that can be done without basically just dying. For the common person, I have tried every drug they can name. Ive also tried hundreds of research chemicals you almost definitely can't name lol. I love drugs 💕 I see them like a collection, a collection of experiences. I love seeing all of the different ways one can alter their consciousness and some of the most beautiful experiences of my life have been drug experiences.
You may think I'm some druggie loser, but I do also have a degree in a complicated scientific field and I do very well for myself. I'm very happy, I've had tons of pretty amazing non-drug related experiences, an equally successful boyfriend I'm very happy with, and I've never been actually addicted to anything despite even trying heroin and meth, just for the experience. I just love drugs.
I've even tried drugs that are horrific. No one should ever try them except for my reason, just for the experience. For example Benadryl in high quantites and Datura, which produce an absolutely hellish nightmare delerium that can commonly involve seeing things that actually aren't even there. Imagine how movies portray acid, except make it terrifying, I once spoke to my dead grandmother with her flesh falling off her face for an hour then looked at the clock, looked back, and she was gone. And the spiders... Everrywhere. They happen to have always been my biggest fear even before taking them. Knowing I would see them all over me going into it you can imagine how dedicated I was to be taking that shit. I never will again. It was truly a nightmare, in it's purest form. I've had the experience and I'm satisfied.
But anyways, there are a few drugs I haven't done. Desomorphine is one (commonly known as krokodil) because it's extremely hard to get without it being contaminated with insane shit that can even cause necrosis. Mainly drugs that can NOT be done safely, at least unless you have it totally pure like desomorphine. And a few drugs have just alluded me. For example qualludes. I've certainly tried. I have a cryptocurrency quallude fund. Any time they come up on the dark net while I'm on I immediately put in my bitcoin and hope to the god I don't believe in that it goes through... Every time they've sold out before the information processes. And, Ether. I first heard about Ether exactly in that line in the book you quoted and it really intrigued me. It stuck with me. But I haven't even heard it mentioned anywhere since unfortunately. Maybe some day I'll find it and I can report back. I also have a pretty decent chemistry background so maybe I'll try synthesizing it. The flammability definitely scares me though as a drug enthusiast who uses lots of lighters lol. Ether is definitely interesting.
I didn't know the history of it though. Great video!
Epic comment, thanks for sharing !
I once was trying to light a trash fire in a strong wind. There was a spray can of ether on the shelf for starting diesel truck engines in the cold, cold winter. I had a Collie pet dog at the time. I had no experience with ether but the writing on the side of the can said "extremely flammable". I figured "That'll do!". I sprayed some on a sheet of corrugated cardboard & tried to light it. The liquid evaporated before I could light it with a match. I tried it again & the same thing happened. Then I soaked it really good & lit it off. It exploded with a loud bang & still didn't ignite the paper. I took the ether back & put it back where I found it & never touched ether again. I found another, more sensible, way to start the fire. The dog cussed & swore for 15 minutes like a truck driver, criticizing me for doing such a dangerous thing. Listen to dogs when they give you advice!!!
Great documentary. Keep up the good work. The music definitely added to this. Great choice.
I believe intoxication is a proper part of the human experience.
I just find it hard to believe that a human being who is properly conscious and adventurous enough for good company wouldn’t find themselves absolutely plastered at least twice in their lives. And I mean twice. Only doing it once means it scared you too much. Only doing it twice MAY lie with principal.
I hope you're joking. There is absolutely no need to be intoxicated even once. If you want to and can use it responsibly, feel free to do so. But it is not some essential part of life.
@@olivercharles2930 Whoa, mate . . . you're venturing into a complex philosophlcal question that has been explored for millenia: "What is the Essence of being Human (?)"
I was actual told this about ether in Ireland a long while ago but even knew the actual extent. Amazing.
Is ether considered a psychedelic? I was under the impression that label was limited to drugs that mimic seratonin and unless I’m mistaken ether works by a completely different mechanism
Depends, maybe clinically. But in everyday use, psychedelic is literally a synonym for hallucinogenic.
It's broadly applied to any substance that causes hallucinations upon consumption.
Maybe if you're a serious researcher or erowid admin you might care about the difference but most people don't have any awareness of the word psychedelic being specifically linked to serotonergic substances.
@@blindmown that is very true
My mom was given ether as anesthetic at a dentist's office as a child, it gave her life-long aversion to anesthetics of all kinds.
where is this image from? 1:16
Dude, if you are the one who is making the watercolor images, 1.) please keep doing them they look amazing 2.) I'd greatly appreciate you making a tutorial on how to paint in that style.
It's AI generated
@tomfoolery2913 hello, existential dread, my old friend…
A form of eather is one of the most popular drugs in brazil nowadays, its called Lolo and its the kind of thing you will have at least a couple friends that use it in feasts
Met a guy named Jared Holderman from Dayton Ohio. Told me he used to do air dusters. I'm not going to describe how to use it, but I felt like we're too different. Who does that💯
The smelling like sulphur for months, weeks, even days is disturbing enough. Forming a hypothesis on the woo + science of Ether now. Thanks for some history.
I'm Irish. I did an Irish history course in college and I had no clue about this ether business 😅 thanks for educating me. You might do a video on the gin epidemic in England sometime??
did you draw that all by yourself? it is gorgious
@horses you say: "its not even the ether itself but the vapor" insinuating that the ether itself is more flameable however:
The vapor is more flameable than the ether itself, since it has most likely formed a nice gas mixture with oxygen
good old Ether! had this introduced to me in an insane paty by a bearded Doctor we were all high on Cali, Colombian coke! and I had second thought about doing it with Coke and Alcohol but he said it was ok!. I mean a bearded Doctor was offering it I said ok! mad shit I tell ya!
Doctor was just trying to land a paying client by nearly killing you lol
I did quite a lot of ether a few years ago. Its like ket and nangs mixed together. A few days after a binge, you’d sporadically get a whiff of it, i assume as it evaporated from inside your lungs.
If ether is pure, there is no sulphur in it. Sulphuric acid, or another strong acid makes the ethanol react with itself.
I hate ai art but I have to give you that you nailed it. Making a video like this with animators would take thousands of dollars. This is a tasteful example of ai visuals. Was the art inspired by Egon Schile? Some prompts remind of of him and a bit of Van Gogh ( potato eaters)
Well, the only negatives you mentioned were bad smell, short effective time and popularity among poor ppl (a little bit addictive, but no worries, psychologically)
As if it was not deadly
Not true, its very dangerous. It's a solvent, so it's neurotoxic and will cause brain damage. Maybe not as bad as huffing gasoline, but don't think its safe just cuz he glossed over the dangers. We know more now than they did back then. Brain damage wasn't on their radar
it can make you mad paranoid when you get into a thought loop about some weird shit if you are doing it for a long time. Like aliens, medical experiments, etc. I recall lookin at a air compressor and thinking 'is this the kind of technology a invasion fleet on earth would use? Shit I almost signed up for strategic air command after that. I was like thinkin about 1950's paperwork, compressed air technology and bunkers. SCARY SHIT BRO
@cdrom1070 what a rich exp bro
They would be scared to take you to an army after that
But was it a direct influence of the drug described in the vid - ether?
bro lol relax I am just saying it can make you trip serious balls if you think about certain things be real careful and sparing. and no the place it will take you is hiding out in the mountains, you won't want to be near any kind of human power structure. LMFAO I can imagine how you would feel having to be around missiles, officers, etc after a weekend of ether. That would not end well. If you get to that point just lay down till you fall asleep AND NEVER THE DAY BEFORE WORK. That one is not that bad to explain if you don't have work, you got too drunk and spilled some paint thinner while doing drunken minor home repairs. Wondering if you have ether breath is the worst thing ever. Worse then weed breath. @@vstecliuk6555
I have to confess, this video does make me want to try ether. Just once, to see what it's like.
In Brazil, people still use it. We call it “loló” or “perfume”
Woah new thing I want to try
Even engines get addicted to ether. Something about how it will cause damage to the engine, all but requiring that you use ether to start it on into the future.
What a weak ending. You didn’t tie back to the whole point you started with, lol. It felt like it ended halfway through the story. I want a part 2. Leaving us on a cliffhanger wtf.
ether is not at all a psychedelic, its a downer or an anesthetic
I have just come across your channel. I can't stop listening. Love your work❤
That Ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow.
"...more popular than alcohol, and basically worse in every way"
That's some devil, man
The beginning sounds eerily like the contents of my dining room table every weekend in the 80' s & 90' s...that Queens of the Stone Age song ' Feel Good Hit For The Summer ' summed up life for 25+ yrs...I enjoyed every single second 😉
There used to be some sweets in the UK called victory v’s that used to contain liquorice, ether and Chlorodyne ( a mixture of cannabis, opium, alcohol and chloroform) AFAIK the ether and chloroform were still in them till the late 80’s. They are still available today but with synthetic ether flavouring
is the art AI generated? I don't understand how do you get such perfect images in a very similar style that function perfectly for the theme you are speaking of
Prompt engineering. You've got to know how to ask for what you want. Recommend you watch a few tutorials on it.
These were some of the most moving and powerful images I've seen on this channel.
as a shitty mechanic, I've had my experience with emptying that one too much break cleaner can
yeah I was high for 10 minutes looking at the ratchet wondering if I was real
Ether with ethanol makes for a very good optics cleaning solution, we still use it at work
No references to Mr. Burns taking this and confusing Homer for the Pilsbury Doughboy? That’s a paddling