Debunking The Biggest Drug Myths

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Be aware of local laws. If you're like me and grew up in the DARE program, you've probably heard a lot of stupid myths. What kids should know is that marijuana has got more cancer-causing agents than tobacco.

They said acid would help me forget my problems. Literally, no one's ever claimed that about ass. The point is, every generation has their boogeyman, their drug myths.

During Prohibition, alcohol was the cause of everyone's problems. And then people just kind of chilled out and thought alcohol is not that big of a deal. And then cannabis was the big problem.

Reefer madness. It's causing everyone to lose their mind. But later on, people realized weed's actually not that exciting.

It's pretty chill. Then psychedelics was public enemy number one. But now it's trendy to like psychedelics like shrooms and acid.

So what's our generation's myths? Turns out there's a lot. We believe in a lot of stupid things are just not true.

And I promise you, no matter who you are, no matter how much of a drug nerd you think you are, I'll blow your mind with some of these. Fentinil is dangerous and just bad and should be banned. I was actually seeing this a lot uh a while back on TikTok.

People would be given fentinil at the hospital and then freak out because they were given fentinyl. Right. But give you relaxing medicine.

You got fentanyl and Versa. Fentinyl. Yes.

It's okay. It's not the bad kind of fentanyl. It's the medicine kind of fentanyl.

It's okay. Uh there's no such thing, by the way, as like medical fentanyl and bad fentanyl. It's all fentanyl, right?

But what a lot of people don't know is that fentinyl is actually not new. It's been used in medicine since the 1960s. As you've probably heard, fentinyl is an opioid.

It's a painkiller, and it's used very frequently in medicine still today. It's used with women giving birth. It's used regularly in surgeries.

I've actually been given it multiple times. And this might shock you. If you were to be given the most common opioid historically used for pain called morphine, you've probably heard of it.

You would probably tell zero difference between fentinyl or morphine. You would not be able to tell if I didn't tell you, right? Even though fentinyl is literally 100 times stronger than morphine, but they would feel the exact same to the average person.

How would they feel the same if one of them is 100 times more potent than morphine? Like, how how is that possible? And I'm about to explain and I'm about to go full nerd because this is one of my fixations and I'm very sorry but we're going to go very nerdy.

Opioids are potentially the oldest medicine in human history. Potentially one of them. Right.

Literally thousands and thousands of years. So many ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, everyone loved using opioids for painkillers also just to have fun. Right now what is an opioid?

There are three types of opioids we should know about. And it all starts with one plant called the poppy plant or papaver somniferam which is also the bread seed poppy. Like if you have like a poppy seed muffin and you test positive for morphine that's because it's the same plant.

There's often a little amount of morphine on those uh seeds. It's that's another thing. So it all starts with the poppy plant.

And this poppy plant has this pod and it has three chemicals that are really cool. You have morphine, which is the same morphine that the ancient Egyptians used for pain and the exact same morphine we use today as pain and they inject it into you at the hospital. Right.

Okay, I need to calm down. This is so exciting. I just I love this topic.

The other two compounds are codin, which is uh scissor, you know, like that same stuff like purple drink. That's that's uh codin found naturally in the plant. And then also thebane, which isn't psychoactive, but when you tweak the chemical a little bit, you actually get oxycodone, which Hitler was actually uh addicted to.

A lot of fun facts. A lot of fun facts here. So those three chemicals, those are called natural opioids, and they're still used today in medicine.

But then if you take any of those compounds, any of those three, and tweak them a little bit, you get a semiynthetic opioid. This is things like heroin. Heroin is just the morphine that you extract out of the plant and then they do like basic level chemistry on it and then that turns into heroin which is what is it like 10 times more potent than morphine.

So that's called a semiynthetic meaning it's not directly from the plant but it's like a step later. It's a little bit of chemistry to make it semiynthetics. Okay, which includes percoet norco.

The [ __ ] up part about this info dump is that this is all off the dome. Like I didn't Google this stuff. This is just like me going like and I'm holding back too.

There's so much information that I'm holding back. I'm just like, "Okay, M don't give them too much. " But oh, it's so interesting.

I don't know why I give so much of a, but I love it. And then finally, the last category is fully synthetic, and that's what fentinel is. Meaning, there was actually never the plant involved in it.

Fentinel is just made in a lab. But that doesn't mean that fentinyl is worse because it's not from a natural plant. In fact, the reason why fentinel is so commonly used in medicine is because it's honestly just better at doing what it does than all those other things.

Because of the chemical structure of fentinol, it actually hits you faster, which is a very big deal. If you're an anesthesiologist and you see your patient is in pain, you want to get them out of pain very quickly. Quickly, fentinyl will get you right out of there, right?

The effects also go way faster, meaning that they can take you off the fentinol quicker if they've given you too much. Another very cool thing is that a telltale sign of someone who's addicted to opioids or on opioids is that they might be nodding off and itching themsel, right? They might be itching their arms or body or whatever.

That's actually called a histamine response. And that's a very common symptom of someone who is on opioids. But with fentinyl, it actually has a very low histamine response.

So you don't get nearly as itchy. That's why I've been given it so many times because I was given morphine when I had cancer as a kid and I broke out in hives because I had such a strong histamine response. But fentinyl I don't have that strong of a response on.

So that's why I spilled my drink on my shirt. But now that you are an expert on opiates, right? technically opioids.

You wouldn't fentinyl is not technically an opiate. It's an opioid. Oh god, I'm autistic.

Now, we can answer the question, why is fentinyl so dangerous? Because it's also the same reason of why it can be 100 times more strong than morphine yet feel the same. If we were to get a piece of paper, it's just that this small amount right here.

If this was fentinel and I just went dead. Now, if I were to do this, boop, dead. If I have that, dead.

And I could keep going. That's what makes fentinyl so deadly. It's not the fact that the drug itself is super deadly or the fact that it's a million times more addictive than anything else or it's nothing like that.

It's the fact that fentinyl is so potent per gram that it makes it impossible to correctly dose it if you're not aing doctor at a hospital. On top of that, and this is a little funny and a little [ __ ] up, people who use fentinol have to worry about their fentinyl getting cut with other drugs, just like everyone else has to worry about their drugs getting cut with fentinyl. And you might think, what the are you going to cut fentinel with?

Like, what's the drug in that? Well, 1 to 2% contain nidazines. Nidazine is the fentinol of fentinol.

It's like super fentinyl. The world, what does it come to? Fentanyl is measured in micrograms, not milligrams, not grams.

Microgram, that's a thousandth of a milligram, which is a thousandth of a gram. Like, you think this [ __ ] caning measure a microgram? No, you can't visually see a microgram with the naked eye.

And so, what happens is you have these Mexican cartels, these drug dealers that are not pharmacists. They do not have the correct equipment to measure or mix the fentinel in with whatever they're selling. You'll have these pills that one batch, yeah, it might be a good batch, right?

But in that same batch, one pill might have what they call a hot spot. One part of that pill might just have a little bit micrograms more fentinel in it and you take it and you're dead. And that's the key that a lot of cops in the DARE program actually this us over.

They'll say these things like fentinyl is 100 times more potent than morphine, right? And what that sounds like to the average person is, "Oh, you get a 100 times higher on fentinyl than you do on morphine. " No.

All it means is that the dose to get high is a hund times less than morphine. It doesn't mean that it's a better high, that it's stronger or anything like that. It just means the way the chemical structure is, it's just stronger per gram.

And that's why everyone should have some of these. These are fentinol test strips. It's very easy.

You get your drug, dip it in water, dip this, bam, you know instantly there's fentinol because that [ __ ] is scary. Not the fact that the drug itself is scary. It's the fact that it's so goddamn potent per gram that it could knock out a horse.

That's a good segue. Ketamine is a horse tranquilizer. I've heard people say this a million times.

This is just another reminder that yes, that is a Drke sweater. No, I do not like Drke. I hate not [ __ ] I mean I I've said it before in other videos.

I hate Drke for a million reasons. I've always hated Drke, but it's a very comfortable sweater and I just if if you know how to adjust it, if any of you know how to sew or anything and want me to send it to you and you can adjust the logo to show that I hate Drke cuz I'm tired of answering this, but it's just such a comfortable sweater. So, let me know.

But I hate Drke. I promise I'm not a I'm not that much of a YouTuber. And it's usually people say like, "Oh my god, ketamine.

Like people do ketamine. That's a horse tranquilizer. Why are people that's some druggy shit?

" And I think it's really scary to people that it's a horse tranquilizer because they think, "Oh, horses are big. " So that means the tranquilizer used to get them down, that must be some strong ass stuff, which it is. But also, ketamine is just a great tranquilizer for everyone.

It's used in humans regularly. Ketamine is a disassociative. What you'll experience is a separation from the idea of you and your body.

It's a very weird experience and almost teeters on psychedelic. It disassociates you and it's a very it gets to the point where someone's going to be hitting you on ketamine and you're like that's not my arm. Right?

You look at it, it's not my arm. Um it's weird. Uh but yeah, it is used regularly in surgeries for humans.

I've been given it. It's given all over the country for surgery. It's been used since I think the Vietnam War.

They used it during surgery. It's a very common medication and it works really well. And yes, it is a horse tranquilizer, but it's important to note that horses are mammals, cats are mammals.

A lot of the same medications that we give to our pets are the same medications that we have. If you have a cat that has anxiety, guess what? They're going to probably give that cat alprazilam, which is Xanax.

They're going to give little kitty Xanax. It's dosed differently, but it is. Yeah, it's the same stuff.

So, no, ketamine is not just a horse tranquilizer. It's also used regularly in human medicine and also used to treat some types of depression very effectively. It's a very cool one.

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Oh, [ __ ] god damn it. Should I go over the ad again? When smoking weed, holding the smoke in gets you higher.

I was actually shocked about this one, too. Yeah, that's [ __ ] I and I feel like most people were taught that when you smoke weed, you go hold it for a second and then go right and that's the way to get all the THC absorbed into your body, right? Uh science says otherwise.

Apparently THC absorbs really rapidly in your body. So this study actually found that whether you hold it for 0 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 up to 20 seconds, it really makes no big difference on how high you get. And actually the more you inhale and hold it, it's actually just going to make you cough more.

That's about it. And also after reading this, like in retrospect, it makes sense because when someone smokes cigarettes, they don't go the hold. You know, they just breathe in and out.

You get just as high. So yeah, it makes sense. I just I was I was shocked about this one.

It was a good one. DMT is released in the brain when you die or when you're born. Oh, Joe Rogan, you mother.

DMT or dimethylrypamine is a very, very, very potent psychedelic that's actually the active chemical in Iawaska. But when people say, "I did DMT," they usually aren't talking about Iwasa. They're talking about smoking or vaporizing the pure crystallin distillate DMT.

It's like this yellow, sometimes creamy powder that you just rip. It's intense. But the myth that DMT is released when you die makes a lot of sense when you understand the culture around DMT.

In the psychedelic community, DMT is done almost always in the same way. They have this rig, whatever rig they are using, and then you take one hit. Go.

Okay. Bam. You're instantly within 5 seconds, 10 seconds, hit with this warm feeling.

It's shaky. The world's starting to shake. Your vision starts to change a little bit.

It's very intense. After just one hit, right now, most people when they experience this go, "Okay, I think I'm done. This is a lot.

" Right? No. The person tripsitting you will do will often say, "Again, you breathe out and you're usually coughing and you're burnt and it hurts.

It's terrible, right? And then you go again, but while you're taking the second hit, this first hit is still going more and more intense and the world is changing, right? And the second hit starts to hit and you're going, "Oh my gosh.

" And sometimes your vision starts to go and change in weird ways and it gets exceptionally intense, right? It it is very intense. And then you breathe out, you're still coughing.

Oh my god. Tripsitter will say again, one last time. And at this point, this is what most people experience as the breakthrough.

And this is oh, it's an it's a lot. Um, you know, often for me personally, often my vision will go completely blank. Like you, it's not that I'm blind, but the idea of me opening or closing my eyes, I see the same thing.

It's just geometric patterns. I'm no longer here. The idea of me and Mets are completely obliterated.

And it's what we call in the psychedelic community as an ego death. It really does feel like you've died. Now, a lot of people hear this and they go, "Oh my god, that's terrifying.

" It's not as scary as it sounds. It's very scary, but also, mind you, it's eight minutes. You're fine.

But it's very intense and it feels like your body's not dead. Nothing has hurt you. But the idea of you as an individual that is separate from the world, that's gone.

It's obliterated. You are now just one with everything else. It is a beautiful but also terrifying experience.

And I think that's also why a lot of people say, "Oh, DMT is the chemical that is released when you die. " even though there's no evidence to show that. People like Joe Rogan have repeated this over and over again on podcasts and I think a lot of people have just kind of accepted it as fact because it kind of makes sense on the on the surface.

But I I want to ask you one question. How do you propose we test that? Do you want to get a whole bunch of people and just kill them and just measure the DMT?

You know, like it's a hard one to test and there are ways to test it, I suppose, but there's no evidence to show that. What also makes it a little bit more confusing is DMT is endogenously found in humans and a lot of other animals, meaning we naturally produce it. We just have it in our bodies naturally.

And so it kind of makes more sense like what's the function of this? It makes sense, you know? But again, there's no evidence to show that this is what happens.

I'm not saying this is not what happens, but to perpetuate that is like you're just someone made that [ __ ] fact up and you're just saying I believe Rick Strawman started this belief and I think in like 2000 in a book he he said like oh you know it's released when you die but he didn't have any evidence of that. So if you have your own drug myths you want me to debunk or I have like a fat list of like 20 more of them. I would make so many more of these videos.

I love making them. Comment below please like actually comment below and then I'll I'll definitely make more and I'll I'd love to hear more drug myths that you guys know of. crack cocaine is worse than regular cocaine.

This is probably going to blow some people's minds, but yeah, that's actually a myth. For the most part, cocaine is cocaine, but it does get a little complicated. The cocaine that you snort, the stuff that we're all kind of used to seeing in the movies, at the frat parties, all the celebrities do all that, that cocaine is technically called cocaine hydrochloride.

Okay, without getting too nerdy, that hydrochloride tells you that this version of cocaine is water soluble, meaning that when you snort it, you'll feel an effect. What a lot of coke addicts discover though is that the more you snort cocaine, the harder it is to snort cocaine. As the night goes on, your nose can get really clogged up so you can't snort anymore.

Or maybe there's actually sometimes people who are really addicted have a hole in their nose from snorting cocaine. It's it's very harsh. Well, if you can't snort it anymore, what did these people do?

Well, in the 1980s, what became popular is what they call freebasing or making crack. I'm obviously not going to explain to you how it's done, but it is basically not even chemistry. It's not like hard like it's it's very simple.

It's mixing with cocaine. Essentially, what that does is remove the hydrochloride from the cocaine hydrochloride. And what you have now is a cocaine that is smokable.

And when you put this freebased cocaine into a pipe and smoke it, it cracks. That's why we call it crack. But it's still cocaine.

That hydrochloride that's removed in the crack making process, that's not psychoactive at all. Meaning both of the cocaine and crack are both literally the exact same drug. There is no difference in the cocaine molecule whatsoever.

They just are literally just different forms of the exact same thing. Meaning freebasing the cocaine doesn't make it more addictive or more dangerous or more potent even. It is literally the same thing.

Now, where this gets realed up is in the 1980s, there was a law passed, and that law basically said that crack was to be charged 100 times more severely than Coke. What does that mean? What that means is, let's say you hypothetically go to the local Coke dealers's place to pick up an eightball, 3.

5 g, and you go home to share it with your friends. It's a personal amount of Coke, but [ __ ] the cops pick you up and they go, "Hey, we found you got 3. 5 grams of Coke on you.

" You're getting charged with having 3. 5 grams, a a personal amount, meaning you're not going to distribute this out. It's just for yourself and friends.

Okay, now that's bad enough. But let's say you get home and you decide, you know what? I'm going to spend 10 minutes.

I'm going to freebase this real quick so we can smoke it and we don't have to snort it. Okay, that same Coke, that 3. 5 g, now you have 3.

5 g of freebase stuff. Okay, then the cops catch you. Uh-oh.

You see, you no longer have 3. 5 g, a personal amount of cocaine. You, sir, have 350 g worth of cocaine in crack form.

Meaning, you have an intent to be a goddamn kingpin of drugs. You have the intent to sell to the whole goddamn city. And you're getting charged like a drug dealer, even though it is literally the same amount.

Yeah, it's [ __ ] up, right? That that's that's racism. That's that's Now, why would they do such a thing?

Well, because now cops could go to any poor black neighborhood they wanted and if they found anyone with the smallest amount of crack for themselves, they could charge them and put them in prison for as long as they wanted and they could do it to any of them. Oh my god. And the up part is this is still a thing.

That disparity is still a thing. I don't think it's a 100 times. I think they've dropped it down to 18 times, which is stilling insane.

That's still crazy. Right now, to wrap this all up in a bow, I will say there is a complexity around this because some of you might be saying, "Well, I've seen crackheads. They're crazy, right?

I have crackheads in my family. That's crazy. " Okay, one, uh, when drugs hit impoverished people, it looks a lot different, right?

When rich people do meth, it looks a certain way, but then when poor people do meth, it looks very different, right? But the other thing is that yes, when you smoke crack, it does actually feel quite a bit different than if you snort it. And that's because route of administration, how you do a drug matters quite a bit, but it doesn't change the drug.

When someone snorts cocaine, it takes a while for them to feel the effects, but they will feel it for longer. And it's more of like a the effects curve would be something like this, right? When you smoke that same cocaine, it hits you immediately and it's much more of an intense euphoria, but that also goes away much faster, which means that that person might be more inclined to just keep smoking it over and over again to keep that high going, which makes someone really fiend it.

You know, they're they're going for the next hit. But this isn't unique to cocaine or crack in the slightest bit. Pretty much most drugs I can think of, how you do that thing will affect how it feels.

For example, with meth, if people eat meth, a lot of people would say it feels very similar to, let's say, aderall you get at the doctor's office. But if you were to inject that same meth, some men report that the euphoria is so intense that they literally come their pants. The exact same meth.

But a perfect example of how coke or like snortable like cocaine hydrochloride can be just as insane as crack is that you can actually inject cocaine and it'll give you that same insane rush and like euphoria. So there is no debate of oh well crack is actually way more addictive and all. No, no, they're the same drug.

Don't pull this [ __ ] of oh they're totally No, they're not. They're really not. They're chem.

They're literally the whatever. You get the point. Okay.

What should the last one we do today? Indicar sativa. Fentinol with cops.

Ooh, weed's not a drug, it's a plant. Or just the idea that plant drugs are somehow better than chemical drugs, right? That's all a myth.

As we've discussed on this channel many times, most drugs that we get that are like chemical drugs are derived from plants. Cocaine or crack is from the cocoa plant. Heroin is from the poppy plant.

acid or LSD is originally derived from the urgot fungus. And I can go on and on. Most of the drugs we have nowadays are derived from plants.

But I will say part of me does agree with this sentiment a bit, especially as I age and you see my channel. I tend to go more natural stuff, but that's not out of like a I think natural is always better or anything like that. It's more that a lot of natural stuff is a lot shittier than the chemical stuff and so it lends itself to healthier use.

Good example of this is cocaine and crack versus cocoa leaves. Cocoa leaves have been used for hundreds if not thousands of years. People chewing them.

And because it's not a super strong effect when you chew them. It's just like a subtle energy effect. It lends itself to people just using them in a very healthy way like a daily oh like coffee type of thing.

But when you extract the cocaine from cocoa leaves, it gets way more euphoric and way more addictive. And so in this case, it is a good example that plants in this case are quite a bit safer than chemical stuff. But I can also think of many examples of the plants actually being much worse than the chemical version.

Good example is with nicotine. If you take just a straight tobacco leaf out of the ground, roll it up into a cigar and smoke it, you get the nicotine, but you also get very high chances of mouth cancer, very high chances of lung cancer, and it's very bad. You got all that tar, all of that.

But when you extract that nicotine and then put it in, let's say, a Zin pouch and pop it in, you've just drastically decreased your chances of all of those cancers by a lot. So, in that case, the chemical version is way safer and better for you than the natural version. And that's why I say this whole distinction of plant stuff is better than chemical stuff.

It's just kind of this weird moral high ground [ __ ] that really makes no sense. I've met a lot of people who love magic mushrooms but refuse to do things like acid or LSD because they think, "Oh, acid and that's a chemical. That's a drug drug.

" But shrooms, that's natural. That's a fungus. Right?

Saying one is somehow better because it's natural is just it's a dumb game that just makes no sense at all. And sometimes this granola I only do natural stuff is actually hurting the environment. I believe the most potent psychedelic is 5 Modo DMT.

Okay, it is the buoad. It's a toad from the Sonora Desert. And when you extract the venom of this toad, you have this 5 MOD DMT that you smoke and lose your [ __ ] [ __ ] It's DMT on steroids.

It's very, very, very, very strong. But 5 MO DMT can also be created fully synthetically without the frogs at all. But there's this population of people who want to try this 5 MO DMT, but they say, "Oh, I only want to have the natural stuff, the the buof stuff.

" But now you have these toads that are on the verge of being endangered because people refuse to do the chemical version because they only want the but it's the exact same thing. Fact check. I couldn't find any evidence that the buffo toad is endangered.

It my point still stands but I just didn't want to perpetuate that it's like endangered. It looks like the it's healthy numbers but I don't know. So it just feels the same as like performative liberals.

You know the whole oh my god I love brown people but oh don't touch me though. Dirty gross. Cool.

You're you're just virtue signaling at this point. You you don't care. Got it.

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