What is Ketamine?
Ketamine hydrochloride (“Special K” or “K”) was originally created for use as a human anaesthetic, and is still used as a veterinary anaesthetic. Ketamine belongs to a class of drugs called “dissociative anaesthetics”. Other drugs in this category include PCP, DXM and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Ketamine usually comes as a liquid in small pharmaceutical bottles, and is most often cooked into a white powder for snorting.

WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS?
At lower doses it has a mild, dreamy feeling similar to nitrous oxide.

Users report feeling floaty and slightly outside their body. Numbness in the extremities is also common.

Higher doses produce a hallucinogenic (trippy) effect, and may cause the user to feel very far away from their body.

This experience is often referred to as entering a “K-hole” and has been compared to a near death experience with sensations of rising above one’s body. Some users find the experience spiritually significant , while many find it frightening.

While in a K hole it is very difficult to move. People usually remain seated or lying down during the experience.

WHAT IS THE DOSAGE?
Most people snort small lines for a mild, dreamy effect. The effect comes on within about 5 to 10 minutes.

100mg is usually enough to enter a K-hole.

If liquid is injected into the muscle, less is needed to enter a K-hole.

Effects can be felt within four minutes. (Ketamine is never injected into the vein).

If swallowed, the effects come on in 10 – 20 minutes.

Some people become nauseous after taking ketamine.

Occasionally ketamine has been sold in a capsule as “Ecstasy,” although it is nothing like MDMA (real ecstasy). An ecstasy testing kit can be used to screen against fake ecstasy tablets.