DOSE:
repeated
insufflated
4-Methylmethcathinone
(powder / crystals)
oral
4-Methylmethcathinone
(powder / crystals)
repeated
smoked
Tobacco - Cigarettes
oral
Alcohol - Beer/Wine
repeated
smoked
Cannabis
BODY WEIGHT:
11 st
Firstly, all of my Mephedrone experience occurred over the space of five months a few years back. As you will learn from the third-and-final Act, One Last Dance With The Devil, I will never take Meph again. Never have.
Secondly, because Meph caused such a sensation in its short life as a legal amphetamine, and due to how it ends, this story is certainly what the newspapers would call the most �news-worthy� of my many drug tales.
Act I : Meeting Mephedrone
It was the beginning of my second year at university in Nottingham. During the summer, Mephedrone had exploded onto the mainstream market as one of a new breed of �Research Chemicals�.
I started to settle myself into the new house we seven lads would live in for Year Two. I had lived with all of them up the road in Year One except Jer who we all knew through Malcolm. The mob was comprised of Londoner Stan, Northerner Norm, Brummy-boy Jon, East-of-England Ethan and Malcolm from down in the South West.
Barely had I sat down on the sofa in Stan�s room (jealous! � as the last newcomer to the ramshackle house on B Street, I got left with the short-straw shoebox room with a bad bed and a drafty sash window and certainly no two-man sofa) when Jon asked:
�Y�hearda Mephedrone then mate?�
I had. Well at least I thought I had.
�Yeah yeah that�s the stuff they give to heroin addicts isn�t it?�
�Nah nah, that�s me-th-a-done � we�re talking Mephedrone, it�s like a mix of Coke and MD. But! It�s legal. You can buy it online bare cheap and it is strooooong. Everyone is doing it, everywhere!�
�Yeh and we�re gonna buy a shit-load and sell it,� added Ethan with an eager expression, �people are willing to pay twenty for a gram when it only costs six quid online!�
By this point in my life, I hadn�t yet tried MDMA. My only experience of Cocaine was at a friend�s 18th birthday party where the dull white line of powder was so diluted in my skin-full of whiskey that its only discernable effect was to make the next morning�s hangover just that bit more excruciating. Safe to say I wasn�t too excited straight away.
After some vague reiterations from the group � over a big communal zoot � about how this mad Mephedrone was so strong and so cheap that it was apparently going to take over the world, I sensed that mix of anxiety and intrigue that I normally feel when I know there�s a novel drug soon to inhabit my system.
A few weeks passed and occasionally Meph would come up in conversation. Ethan was one of the drugs main proponents, sometimes joining me in the kitchen in the morning while I made a pot of tea.
�Been up all night man. Had a couple of grams. Me and Jon. Once you start you can�t stop. Meph. So morish.� he would say skittishly through tired-wired eyes.
The first month of Term One passed in a cloud of Cannabis smoke and Mario Kart on the Wii. My 20th birthday approached as I enjoyed my last days of being a teenager. As a household of habitual Weed-smokers we made the same sort of plans that most stoners make for someones birthday � get high and not go out.
A few days before my birthday, a friend of the group nicknamed Chew came through the front door with a cheeky smile on his face and a hand surreptitiously hidden in his tracksuit jacket pocket. We knew Chew from living in the same halls as him in Year One. We all gathered round. I didn�t quite know what for, but some of the others seemed inexplicably excited.
�Laaaaaaads. I�ve got it� from his pocket Chew pulled out huge baggy of white powder with a white sticker on the front �One hundred grams of Mephedrone � straight from the supplier!�
Air was excitedly exhaled from nearby mouths. I just stared. The sack of powder in front of me instantly broke the record for the most powdered drug that I had ever seen at one time with my own eyes. I scanned the label as I squeezed the bag, it read:
�Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) 99.99% purity. Research Chemical NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION� That last line seemed wrong.
�Not for human consumption? Why does it say that?� I asked, trying to look as non-plussed as possible. �Not for human consumption? Why does it say that?� I asked, trying to look as non-plussed as possible.