Ketamine is also known as Ket, Special K, Vitamin K or just K and its chemical name is Ketamine Hydrochloride. It is an anaesthetic which is commonly used for veterinary purposes. Normally comes in white powder, sometimes in capsules or even a clear liquid.
The powder is taken orally or snorted and the liquid, orally or by intramuscular or intravenous injection. If snorted, effects start after 5-10 minutes (almost immediate if injected), or about 20 minutes if swallowed: first a powerful hallucinatory trip which usually lasts between twenty minutes to an hour when taken orally, thereafter a soft trip which will linger for approx. 2-3 hours after that.
Physical effects are loss of motor control (difficulty in walking, standing and talking), temporary memory loss, numbness, drowsiness, nausea. Ketamine is a strong drug which produces an "out-of-body" experience: your mind dissociates itself from your body.
It blocks normal thinking, memory recall and most sensory input. In the absence of external input, the brain tends to fill the void with a "new reality" - extreme hallucinations known as "emergence phenomena". It's like you enter another world and can't even see the people next to you. Ketamine causes physical incapacition as well as very hard trips, and is unlikely to make you want to dance.
Be careful how much you take - ketamine is much more powerful than equivalent amounts of speed or ecstasy, and is highly dose dependent. An overdose of ketamine will result in unconsciousness, since overdoses can depress circulatory and respiratory systems to dangerous levels, sometimes causing death.
Because ketamine produces loss of motor control, it is dangerous to use it in uncontrolled environments. There have been reports of confused ketamine users wandering obliviously into traffic.
Since Ketamine is an anaesthetic, you may not notice if you fall and hurt yourself. It is extremely dangerous to mix ketamine with respiratory depressants such as alcohol, barbiturates and Valium. It's important to have friends around to look after you.
Because tolerance to the drug takes a long time to develop, ketamine has a high abuse potential.
Read here about a letter about Ket from a vet
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