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
I was given ether as an anesthetic for a tonsillectomy in 1959 in Olympia, WA at age 5. I was carried into an operating room by a nurse and laid on a table. Without warning several adults held me down by my arms, legs and head while a doctor pressed a gas mask over my mouth and nose. The chemical smell was overpowering, like acid burning the inside of my skull. I tried to kick and scream but as I closed my eyes I saw fireworks and seemed to fall backward into an abyss of timeless panic. Later I woke up and the nurse brought me ice cream.
I don't know if it was ether that I was given, but I had the same experience in regards to being attacked by people who held a gas mask on me, without any kind of a warning beforehand and being a child who was scared of being in the dentist's waiting room (it's that smell)anyway, all I can say is that it was unforgettable and gives me shivers just to write about it now. I can't believe that my parents ever allowed that to go the way it did tbh. Weirdly, I totally forget which 1 it was who took me there that day.
Lsd, dmt and psilocybin containing mushroom are amazing. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder 18 years ago as a teenage. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Australia. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
100% agree I used to have Psychosis and paranoid thoughts like "people thinking about me talking about me etc. Very odd behavior after getting off Adderall from 7-16. Antidepressants at 18-29. 31 now. I took way to much, but took about 20g of Gold caps (Psilocybin containing mushroom) I analyzed my entire life. The emotions that came out helped me understand behavior etc more. Wont ever need to do it again because I'm happy and contempt forever, but I wish more people did this to alter their perception of reality. Would help with healing much trauma
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.
@@matthewplizga1920you 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.
A note on the chemistry of (diethyl) ether: Ethanol is CH3-CH2-OH Sulfuric Acid is H2SO4. The acid donates a proton (a positively charged hydrogen) to the ethanol to give: CH3-CH2-OH2(+) This positively charged molecule will be attacked by a neutral ethanol, and the -OH2 will leave as water (H2O). Giving: CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3 Notice that there is no sulfur in this compound. The sulfuric acid is a catalyst that is not consumed in the reaction (The attacking ethanol also loses a proton which the sulfuric acid can regenerate with). So the foul burps and farts are not explained by sulfur, since it would be separated from the ether before consumption. My guess is that the ether affects bacteria of the gut to form some other bad smelling compounds. Ether is pretty unpopular now, so I enjoyed listening to this topic!
@@RichardMcintyre-qu3kuot likely unless someone's making bathtub ether. it's not a controlled substance so I'd say it's just industrial manufacturers & they clean it. also, there's also no way sulfuric acid is anything but sparingly soluble in ether. the sulfate is charged and ether is nonpolar = immiscible = not enough to make sulfur to make stinky farts. PS ironic that ethanol is used to make ether but it was the price of booze that started the ether craze in Ireland (if I understood the vdo correctly)
As an Estonian I can confirm that there are ether users in Estonia, but this video showed me truly another side of the story as in Estonia drinking ether seems more mystical and i'd say even cool. For context, most of the ether users are from south-eastern region of Estonia called Setomaa, that historically has been inhabited by Seto people, but that region has always been really poor so that probably explains why it was popular there. But people here don't drink ether recreatinally like was seen in the video, but it is seen more as a medicine. I haven't really seen it myself, but as far as I've heard from others, people who do drink it, don't drink it that much at a time and mostly in times when they are feeling sick or worn out. It is completely legal and I've seen it sold legally in southern-Estonian fairs as a drink, but I don't think you can buy it from any regular stores except hardware stores as starter fluid. But most of the people who buy it are old people who have grown up in Setomaa. There aren't many young drinkers and of those who drink ether probably many do it only because it is thing that seems to inseparable part of Seto culture and is seen as part of Seto cultural heritage. For context Seto culture is also kind of popular in Estonia as it seems mystical and somewhat primal compared to overall Estonian culture, so you will probably find many Estonians who will say that they would want to try ether if they had the chance, but not many who have actually tried it as it isn't that accessible outside south-eastern Estonia and not that tempting of a drug as people see it more as a historical medicine and are aware of it's actual health implication. But I haven't really heard of anyone who has ether drinking problems, but I have heard of people complaining that their grandparents house stinks, because their grandpa likes to drink ether etc.
Käisin üks kord seto sootska päevadel, siis kui kunni valimistulemused avalikustatakse. Kolmes putkas vennad istusid ja müüsid eetrit pudeli kaupa, ühel laps ka kaasas. Päris kole ilm oli, kuigi suvi, vihmane ja külm ja väga porine. Üks tegelane oli nii pilves et maadles ise-endaga muda sees, mees nagu härg ka veel. Aga ise pole joonud.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
I’m Irish and I never knew about Ether Abuse. The late 19th century was a dark time for Ireland in the aftermath of the great famine and it’s understandable that people drank to suppress terrible memories.
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.
LSD, DMT and psilocybin containing mushrooms are amazing. I could remember several years ago, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month in my house. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a remedy not a vice. I even felt more refreshed the morning after. So no hangovers. No depression mood for days. No anxiety.I now have a more calm mind
I remember reading a Curious George book once where he stumbles upon a bottle of ether and huffs it. It made me laugh because I was old enough to know what substance abuse was and to have it show up unexpectedly with such an innocent character was kind of funny.
@@skinnybub5237i owned that shirt. Pretty sure it was from Hot Topic since purchasing clothing from the internet wasn’t really a thing in 2000-2001 ish
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Thankyou, Horses- every single video of yours has such a great perspective, and is full of research and knowledge!!* I look forward to seeing as much content as you can produce...🎉🎉🎉
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
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.
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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
Here in Brasil ether popularized itself in a mixture called "lança perfume" or throwing cologne in a literal translation, which is basically ether + chlorophorm lol. It is generally consumed during brazilian carnival by huffing and for years it was socially acceptable. Kids would buy it and throw it on other kids (hence its name), while adults would huff away and go to narnia for 30 seconds.
Just got back from Rio de Janeiro, and it's an extremely popular drug in the balies, the bandits there love spraying it in the air and in each other's faces.
This is the first RU-vid 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 RU-vid video on it.
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 .
@@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 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
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
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.
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
@Horses, I have enjoyed your content. I like the subject matter, narratives, narration and the art work. I have seen all of your videos from the start, up to this one and I think the art work on this one is the best so far. The art reminds me of Egon Schiele and Ralph Steadman. Great job and thanks.
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 :)
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Back in the day in high school I was the teaching assistant for the chemistry teacher. I stole several bottles of ether and sniffed the heck out of that stuff for several semesters. I suffered from insomnia and that stuff would knock me right out. Meanwhile, I was a star athlete and sniffing the ether didn't affect my performance. It actually helped me get a good night's sleep instead of laying awake all night.
Its crazy how forgotten Ether is as a drug. It is a testamate to how once something is out of sight it becomes out of mind and how we just decided to ignore the cycles of addiction seen in Ether, Weed, Alcohol, and many other more recreational drugs and the connection it has to poverty. Instead they are just banned and an moral panic ensues until we forget/stop caring and a new drug takes the place since the root cause is never truly addressed.
@@bellsando6506 Weed makes you physically dependent on it. I quit multiple times and always had withdrawal symptoms. Night sweats, sleep problems, reduced appetite etc. You could say most of them are psychosomatic but the sweating most definitely isn't. Not to mention the actual psychological addiction, which you described btw.
@@bellsando6506cannabis is a lifestyle and has nothing to do with mental illness. 25 plus year toker that time I have successfully raised two kids which are a doctor and a teacher. Earned a college degree and run successful business. So tell me again how cannabis causes mental illness?
@@bellsando6506 I get that research suggests weed does not cause a physical addiction the same way alcohol or tobacco does. However saying that psychological dependency/addiction is purely the users fault or is because of mental illness alone is wrong. Populations affected by drug dependency's change over time and heavily correlate with poverty more than with genetic predetermination. My post was just pointing out that when drug bans are introduced they are ineffective or something new will fill the hole like how ether did in the video. Personally I believe mental health is critical in solving drug addiction but I also believe that is is more of a symptom than a cause and is currently being used as a scapegoat and a way to shun/stigmatize those who need help instead of just helping them.
@@bellsando6506 and now with the advent of THC waxes and shatter being sold through dispensaries those people are able to smoke like a crackhead on coke. They trip for 30 minutes each time they get high then come down slow from the weed they chased it with and do it again until out of money. Then they scam & manipulate others to get more. It is truly awful how they deceive themselves with all the MaryJane propaganda and one plant curing the world for all issues pharmaceutically and in the construction industry as they join the cult of marijuana religion...
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. ❤
Dude your videos are so insanely high quality that even my parents who never watch youtube subscribed to you and watch all your stuff. Looking forward to seeing more from you!
It was available in the pharmacies until about the end of my grandparents generation. (The 1990s). I remember being given a few drops in a mixture with camphor on a sugar cube when I was having a flu or something, as a child. The use of industrial solvents and glue containing them, was a problem with some kids, even until the time I was a student.
@@ThorirLenvik it's word for word, I wouldn't have noticed it if it weren't..... strange.... now I can't remember if it was a dream or I just had some extreme deja vu...
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.
I was impressed with the images accompanying this video, it was disturbing to learn they were all generated by artificial intelligence. I suppose someone simply gave the program a list of characteristics to incorporate with the instruction to produce images in the style of Egon Schiel and Gustave Klimpt. So demoralizing as an artist to see fellow artist's entire creative lives reduced to an algorithm. If ether makes a comeback in the arts community I suppose we'll know why
ai can just compile things humans already made, mix it up, copy, paste, but that's not where creativity lies. creativity probably lies in human interaction with its surroundings, which ai can't achieve. it's kinda hard to lug supercomputer to mountain top and let it smell the air. because it lacks the sense of smell. and touch. and emotions.
Unfortunately if you cannot distinguish your art enough to make it a sellable product you are going to be fazed out for applications like this. Cant fight the future. Imagine how fun it feels for someone who can't draw to be able to put their ideas into the computer and see them visually, in real time 😮 oh, and keep it "real" 😁
It is only disturbing if you are paranoid. Personally I love the use of AI. If you want to do art, please do. Just don't do it for money or recognition. If anything this relegates art to a meaningful and personal hobby instead of a way of making money by drawing sentient cars having sex with dragons or something.
Agreed! So it is that I've accidentally found this video some months ago and was impressed by the amount of Schiele's works I didn't knew, just to realize seconds later the same problem you're pointing to. It's weird! Today I'm here again exactly to take the video URL to show and discuss the matter with my art students.
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!
In final fantasy games, ether is used to restore magic power. After learning more about it in this video, it also explain the hairstyles of the main characters.
Lol thats not the same ether 😂 Ether in RPGs is more of a mystical thing having to do with energy transmission or something, its more magical than the ether talked about in this video. Ether is also used to describe the heavens (atleast in the sense of the upper sky above the clouds). I think it is not really described, its just left kind of vague in video games as a mystical object.
@atropa6053 oh snap that's why it's called "final fantasy". And you even keep boosting ether thru the whole thing, convinced it is the thing keeping you alive
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
I highly doubt that humans have any idea about who was the first one to smoke weed (like he mentioned) 😆 Since it most likely happened many millennia ago.
@@multorumunum I believe, but don't know for sure, the oldest cultures to use hemp for more than it's fibers is from India. But like I said, I could be wrong
When one happens to be in college studying pre-med, it came to light that there was a store of ether that was easily accessible in our department. With the bravado of youth, we assured ourselves that we would never take a "heroic dose". Experimental trials produced many giggles. That One Guy decided he could handle said dose. He passed out and there was concern. Fortunately, being a group of pre-meds, the gigglers observed the poor passed-out idiot until he recovered. We concluded that huffing ether was terrible and, to my knowledge, never repeated.
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
Ether isn't as bad as H.S. Thompson said imho. I bought some from the pharmacy when I was a teenager. We did the pint of it over several occasions - it's a crazy, strange feeling and the breath is very nasty after doing it...but I found e.g. anxiety on weed was worse than everything that I felt on ether. Edit: it's also not true that you smell like it for weeks, it's hours or half a day at most. It's the same effect as alcohol, as it gets out through your lungs - just that ether has a way worse smell. It gets really obnoxious even to yourself, that doesn't really happen with alcohol
Bruh, solvents are a no-go. It is EXTREMELY dangerous and bad for your body. Brain damage on the first try if not careful. How did you get some from a pharmacy? What pharmacies stock ether?? There are way better solvents out there
Tried it in high school. Huffed it but never drank it. Even just huffing it you smell like chemicals for a day or 2. I was over at my girlfriend’s house and her dad was like “where’s that chemical smell coming from?” So powerful that the entire kitchen smelled of it. It’s a pretty interesting intoxication. It’s like a trippy, short-lived version of alcohol, with visual and auditory hallucinations, along the lines of nitrous.
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
This is a great video. High production value, well written on a very interesting topic and well narrated. Thank you for making this video. I'm a new subscriber now. You just blew my mind.
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.
Ether is a completely normal and socially accepted drug still in Brazil, it’s just got its name changed(nowadays it’s called Lóló) and we also do not drink it anymore, just sniff/huff hit, it do be freaking awesome, when you’re really high everything goes in slow motion
I’ve done ether, it’s pretty amazing. Thought I went back in time and solved the problems that had caused my most recent relationship to end. Only downside is your breath smells like a goddamn gas station when you come back to reality
Wow. Fantastic documentary. Fear and loathing is one of my favourite books. I love Hunter S Thompson. I am not a drug taker but always wondered why ether was so scary in fnl. Now I know. I also used to work in a watch repairers for 30 years using ether every day. It degreases the hair spring on watch balances. The smell is lovely. If only I'd known the job could have been alot more fun. We also used Ammonia (to clean in an ultra sonic tank),sulphoric acid (cleaning gold and silver) and cyanide ( playing gold). In a small room with no extraction fan.
Ether abuse in Poland decreased significantly after the WW2, but it survived a bit longer in some regions where chemical industry was developed. In my dad's hometown there was a large factory producing many sorts of chemicals - and apparently there was also a number of people who would sniff ether or glue to get high, because these were the only psychedelic substances they could afford (or rather steal from the factory, I guess). Most of the addicts lived in the poorest parts of the town, alcohol abuse was also very common, ordinary people were afraid of going there. And it was still happening in the 1970s
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!
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!
Its crazy that this was once THE "hard drug" of Europe and now it's so obscure it appears as a potion in many video games, including kid friendly ones like Pokémon.
Great channel, subscribed. I always wondered about this topic. Ive heard of people smoking cigarettes dipped in embombing fluid. Thst would be a good 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.
Great video, i consider myself fairly knowledledgable about history and the fact that i didnt really know about this drug is a great lesson on source bias when it comes past cultures
The thumbnail and artwork in this video is incredible! I love it! I had no idea about any of this, I’ve of course heard of ether being used recreationally - but not like this. And addiction rates of 90 percent!!! I think this is telling of how hard life must have been at the time for these people, when life is so hard, sometimes a little lubrication comes in handy. But school kids taking it before school broke my heart. It’s all heartbreaking - humans hurting so much that they’ll do whatever they can for any bit of relief
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!
You've got to love a bit of Hunter S Tompson. 👍 Not so fun fact, In the west it's still actually quite common for teenages and low income addicts to abuse a derivative of ether called difluoroethane. They do this by "huffing" (inhaling) the substance from a can of keyboard cleaner...
Great video. Are the visuals made with midjourney or a similar program? I know there’s a lot of judgment around this topic right now but I’m genuinely just curious. Thanks!
