Seeing ads in High Times magazine for “legal, marijuana like smoking herbs”, remind me of way back in the very early 1980’s, when I was in college, there was a cocaine substitute one could buy, usually at head shops, but it was also sold through the mail and advertised in magazines. It went by names like “Toot” “Sub-tit-TOOT” and “Super Caine”. I believe one of the main ingredients was procaine. It alegedly had similar effects of blow. Eventually, of course, the government banned it. I never tried it because my youth was clean, pure, and drug free( :rolleyes: ) Did any of you? What were it’s effects? Was it like cocaine? Does anyone else even remember this stuff being around?
Yes, back in college I remember a friend had something called “Super-Toot”, I believe. I have never tried cocaine or this product, but my friend had tried both, and said they were not comparable. The “fake” cocaine duplicated the physical effects: numbness, watery nose, but without any of the high you supposedly get from cocaine. As I am extremely stimulant sensitive (a cup of coffee makes me jittery for hours), I passed on this supposed fun, but the bottom line is, that the stuff was a complete rip-off. Not to hijack this thread, but I am an avid beer drinker, and have noticed something similar with “fake” imported beer in the supermarket lately, beer with a german-sounding name and foreign-looking label, made in USA.
Never heard of the fake stuff, though I did enough of the real deal to kill a herd of elephants. California in the 80’s, there was enough good blow around that I probably wouldn’t have bothered with it!
Never tried the real thing or the fake thing. Knowing how I am about chocolate, I knew it would just be a matter of time before I was robbing granny to get my fix. So I wisely avoided it altogether.
I tried some stuff that apparently was ephedrine and bat guano, they called it ‘Natural Coke’ (like the real stuff isn’t natural). I didn’t know it had guano in it until afterwards.
Burned my nose MUCH worse than the real stuff, then made me feel very hot and a bit hyped up. I don’t particularly like the real stuff, and this was worse.
If by “tried fake cocaine”, you of course mean “snorted a Pixie Stix”, then yes, yes I have.
This true story (and hundreds of others) I share in celebration of 6 years clean, as a reminder that I had a great time and if it were any greater I probably wouldn’t be here …
About 15 years ago, I was visiting Boston, and tried to find some coke. I wandered into the downtown “war zone”, and soon enough found an intersection with lots of the right (wrong) kinds of people hanging around. Within minutes, a police car screeched to a halt and out jump two edgy cops. A guy next to me thrusts a sandwich-sized bag of coke into my hands - I just reacted and took hold of it, then quickly tried to cover it up. The cops eye everyone up and down, talk on their radios, and wield their clubs. Time stood still for me. Then, they just moved on, and the guy grabs his coke back and runs.
Not peturbed (there’s an addict), I move on and meet another guy who knows what I want (6th sense?). He guides me into the mouth of an alley. He lets me try the merchandise, and a quick wet-finger dab reveals very good quality stuff. I ask to see a packet before buying, at which point he pulls a knife, sticks it to my throat, and pushes me further down the alley. I remember feeling a sort of resignation; oh, I guess my life is over. Strangely, what he wanted was to force me to buy as much coke as I had money for. Which I did, about $200. Eventually back at my hotel room, upon inspecting the goods, it was crushed tylenol tablets; a couple of pieces were still big enough to read it! Feeling ripped off, I went ahead and tried snorting some (there’s an addict), thinking maybe it was a mix. It wasn’t. I just ended up with rather raw nasal passages, but no headache.
I’m not proud of this shit; I lost 20 years of my life to drugs. But remembering helps me stay sane.
Toon, you go! I’m coming up on 10.
Back in the day, we used to cut coke with Tylenol, or manitol. I suppose you could have snorted manitol, but it wouldn’t have done much for ya.
Fake coke? We used to call that “crank”, or really bad speed!
As if I EVER needed someone to hold a knife to my throat to spend all of my money (and all of yours) on coke!