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  • Not sure we can call it cocaine though, isn’t that term reserved for the hydrochloride salt form of the drug?

    If these plants were brought back as marvels of the new world, they probably were presented to some sort of royalty or another, and there were a lot of alchemists in 17th century Europe.

    Which brings me to my point that I don’t think “cocaine” is exclusively for the hydrochloride salt. Sure, freebase cocaine has its own name (crack), but it still is cocaine. So I’d wager a guess saying cocaine is defined as any extract from the plant.

    Let’s see.

    Well some so, yeah. Mostly it’s just referring to the alkaloid, but I’d agree with you that chewing leafs doesn’t constitute “using cocaine”.

    Because I’m pretty sure that, say, Bohemian alchemists would’ve had no trouble making a potent concoction from the leaves. And I mean “Bohemian” and “concoction” in their literal meanings.

    Like a tincture of cocaine. Hits like a hammer, easy to make.














  • I don’t, unfortunately.

    I’m a shell of a human, haven’t been properly employed for some years, never managed a “normal” schedule or any kind of routine really. I used to have a shift job, but then that became impossible to do as well. In the army I got myself a role that allowed me to shift my personal schedules quite a bit.

    But yeah, no, it has ruined my life and ever since I told tve doctors I tried weed as a coping strategy (for sleeping and eating, it’s good), I can’t really get any help from the public doctors, since I live in such a backwards country that weed is still comparable to doing iv-opiates basically.

    I take melatonin and zolpidem. Melatonin around midnight so it would always be the same but ambien when I go to bed.

    Doesn’t really help.

    If I lived ina country with less social secvurity, like the US, I probably would’ve ended up on the streets several years ago. I’d probably have killed myself or some other people by this point.

    Now I’m just a wreck of a person waiting of some moronic bureaucratic bullshit while everyone else gets to have a life and I don’t.

    Tbf mine might be “non-24 and not just a delayed sleep-phase”, but despite me now having actual sleep data from more than 6 months, I can’t even get the sleep studies place to accept my doctors referral there. Makes me so fking angry I’m gonna have a seizure again