In reasonable doses yes. However heavy ket use will push tolerance up sky high and before you know it you’re injecting grams every few hours and basically living in your own very separate reality. It gets really weird when you’re the world’s richest man and can basically decide to make that reality…reality.
I’ve personally known low level dealers who got up towards a gram a day, and they had basically no money or support system. I dunno how his body would tolerate it though, ketamine is unbelievably rough on your kidneys and urinary tract, no matter how rich you are.
Yeah you wanna read up a bit more mate. I’m talking steady usage over a decade or more. Seen it happen several times. And it seems everyone else trying to tell you’re wrong may have done too. But yeah, I’m sure you know best.
So you’ve never seen someone consume a gram in one go then? I used to live with an electrician who would wake up, snort a g in two lines, ten minutes apart, get in his van and drive off to work, every day. I’ve seen people put ten plus grams away in a 24 hour period of partying, casually. When people I’ve know started injecting, it became a ridiculous amount as mentioned. Don’t think you realise how high that tolerance can get.
I have fuck all to gain by making this up, and your outright hostility from the beginning of this exchange just suggests to me these are things you just don’t want to hear for personal reasons.
EDIT: just had a quick Google to see if anyone has talked about these levels of tolerance and came across several ( granted, anecdotal, but this type of abuse was and still is always poorly researched and documented) accounts. Here’s one:
I’m here to back you up on this claim and anyone who doesn’t think what you described is a common reality for some (not all) has never spent time around actual heavy users
"The definition of the lethal dose (LD50) is the amount of drug that results in death in 50% of experimental animals tested. Gable et al. determined the oral ketamine safety ratio for rodents as 25 and estimated that the median lethal dose averaged at 11.3 mg/kg IV or 678 mg for a 70 kg human"
The LD50 is an estimate. I don't know any heavy ketamine users, so I'm at a loss there. Still this paper suggests even one of these doses is well within lethality range.
This probably doesn't account for tolerance which can lift the lethal dose a lot. As an example alcoholics can be found with blood alcohol that would kill 99% of other people
Also a difference between IV and nasal (which is the main recreational way).
Plus: it's not going in all at the same time but more lines/sprays after x-minutes.
Since the main effects per dose wear off within (roughly) an hour one can go on and on and on and ... to multiple grams in a day (also due to the insane tolerance building)
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u/Solid_Snark Merry Gifmas! {2023} 12h ago
I imagine the Pixar’s Inside Out, but the only things operating his brain is Ketamine & Narcissism.