(77) The freebase cocaine survival mystery

(77) The freebase cocaine survival mystery.

Up in these northern latitudes, all provisions and supplies arrive by air in winter. During the tiny summer, barges are able to ride the high tides up the mouths of mighty rivers to unload the big goods, not transportable by air.

Such as household appliances, vehicles, materials, and larger-than-usual quantities of anything one can order from retailers down south.

There are no roads leading the way to any of the communities. Nor do any train tracks, since the last ones stopped existing, more than 500,000 KM ago.

To get up north, visitors and residents travel The only way to reach these northern communities is by mini jet.

Smaller aircraft , such as the twin otter, are then used to go from community to community.

Residents of these heights rely on air and water transportation exclusively to receive whatever is needed to survive.

The communities are also well distanced from one another, on average at least 100 km or more. Only two of these communities can boast a population of 500 souls or more.

The rest are tiny outposts of less than 100 souls. Only four or five have less than 50 individuals.They are made up of families, seasonal workers, and local natives.

There came a time when a major disruption in supply transportation occurred. No flight could reach the northern communities.

No transportation was possible between the villages either. Attempts to set out and reach a neighboring village would have to be on foot with sleds. There were no more dogs anywhere and no fuel for the Ski-Doos.

These attempts on foot were destined to end in tragedy, given the absolutely unforgiving nature of the landscape and weather.The season was the deepest part of winter, when even the sun would not present itself at the horizon for sunrise for at least another month.

At noon each day, only a coloured blur shone briefly on the horizon before sinking back into darkness. Aurora borealis dominated visually in the vast space above our heads.The feeling of solitude and the utter vulnerability of life is reinforced in these harsh climes.

In one of the smallest of these northern communities was one with a population of only 25 people made up of families, seasonal workers, and natives. Their situation was particularly bad.

Supplies were already exhausted, and starvation was imminent. The elders decided not to let the situation get out of hand and degenerate into paranoia and cannibalism

Such outcomes were known to have occurred in these latitudes many times before, leaving a sense of dread and terror for later generations to feed on.

The only way to avert that fate, they decided, was by shooting every single woman, man, and child before panic set in, panic , desperation and wild inhumanity.

There was no pretending, desaster was going to strike. This time, it was going to be different,.

Definitely more humane and organized than at any other time in the history of these happenings.

The elders had a plan which they laid forth one day exactly before complete shortage kf all food rations left.

A discovery was made in the warehouse. One of the crates contained 10 pounds of freebase cocaine with the instruments to consume it.

For those who didn't know, from information gleaned on reliable online sources, freebase cocaine is the chemical result of cooking cocaine with baking soda.

The hard white chunks produced are broken into smaller pieces called "rocks" and smoked in a glass tube about the width and length of a small marker or crayon.

A piece of steel wool is rolled in a ball and pushed into the tip of one end of the tube using a long, thin wooden stick. (usually provided with the glass tube).

The elders called on each responsible from a group of people to take a hunting rifle and shoot his people to death unless they wanted, for themselves and the people in their group, to prolong life as much as possible by smoking non stop freebase cocaine, believing that whatever endurance and other virtues the coca plant had given the people of the Ande, they could survive longer in lucid calm., spered from hunger and the cold.

Street workers provided insight and descriptions of the process of consumption, to provide an image and an closer understanding of what they were willing to do and impose on their group, even the young children and infants. This will help in tge visualization of the events that u nfolded.

In these latitudes, the means of survival obscure any knowledge of recreational use.

All anyone knew, was that this was a sacred ritual, a gkft from existence good for what its worth.

A piece of steel wool is meant as a filter but also as a nest for each piece of rock that is dropped in the circle opening of the tube to rest against the filter.

When a mouth at the other end of the tube draws in the flame held at the circle opening by sucking in air and inhaling deeply, the piece of rock nesting on the steel wool filter at the tip will melt in a crackling, hissing sound.

A sweetish and burnt taste is produced during this combustion, as is a distinctly sweet and rubbery-smelling odor from the smoke that must be held in the lungs for as long as possible before exhaling clouds. The effects are immediate and profound.

A bitter taste comes in the mouth. A numbness in the back of the mouth. A perceptible whistling tone in the ears is heard and felt in the head.

The person is effortlessly overcome and helpless to resist an overwhelming rush of a weightless yet bearing profound calm in the closed eyes of inner peace.

The neurophysical stimulant euphoria makes you want to lean back, close your eyes, and surrender to a sense of well-being that goes far beyond the physical self.

It fuses with the mind to dissipate reality and become aware for only a few short ecstatic moments of a state of oneness within yourself as you get subdued by the intake through the glass pipe.

Although the length of the initial hit varies in relation to purity, being able to last up to up to an hour between smokes in optimum conditions, the avverage duration is rather short-lived.

The after-effects of the stimulant drug are present for a long while after, even though you feel like you came out of the strongesy phase of that peaceful unity that subdued you and that you were plunged into earlier.

This initial reaction is considered the best moment and the reason why people smoke and become addicted to freebase or crack cocaine in the first place : to get that ecstatic rush of peaceful unity.

Most users agree they will hurriedly put another chunk of rock in the steel wool nest at the tip of the tubes as soon as they feel able and ready for another rush.

They will inhale the smoke as the flame again and again melts each rock in a sizzling hiss and crackle that blasts the mind

More anonymous disclosures describe The air gets filled with a sweetish, burnt rubbery smell and taste.

The clouds of exhaled smoke are a part of this ritual. The longer the smoke is held in the lungs, and the more intense will the hit be upon ehsling. The bigger the clouds of exhaled are show to power of the wave to hit the body and mind.

and produces the overwhelming high and addictive neurochemical fusions that are created after inhaling.

The glass tube gets filled rather quickly with coatings of an off-white-coloured resin and streaks of brownish drops of more resin leaking a thin trickle well visible against the lighter off-white stuff.

An integral part of these sessions, called "puffing," is to use an object to scratch at different moments the inside of the hollow glass tube to remove the excess resin. It dries up rapidly, going from sticky to a crust of hardened layers.

8f you don't, a time will come when the tube will be throughly clogged and unusable. The taste changes also immensely.

This dried crust comes falling out as a brownish powder with flake particles. Beige to dark brown. It looks so much like heroin. This prized substance is then collected and placed at the tip of the tube once again and smoked in the same manner, with an inhaling motion drawing the flame in the tip of the tube.

The effects are just as powerful.Another necessary thing crack and freebase smokers need is a long wooden stick (usually provided with a glass tube) to push the steel wool filter through one end of the tube to the other end and back and forth a few times to scrape and collect as much of the soft resin against the steel wool filter as possible, particularly while the tube is hot.

The steel wool becomes so completely imbibed with resin that even without putting a rock in the tube, the user gets the same powerful effects of an intense, peaceful rush just by inhaling the accumulated resin from the steel wool filter.

Cocaine is an expensive drug.The sought-after effects are given in short moments. The puffing sessions tend to become more frequent and longer. It becomes common to spend entire days or weekends taking puff after puff non-stop. Not even to sleep or eat.

People will usually stay away from friends and family during their puffing sessions.It becomes an obsession. Users feel more at ease in the presence of fellow smokers and, on the contrary, feel very out of place and incapable of remaining in their family doing what they usually would.

The effects are visible to the outside observer and particularly to family and friends who know them best. It is too difficult to hide. Under these circumstances.Perhaps the worst part is succumbing to an uncontrolled state of neurochemical dysfunction. We are not dealing with a person's will of character or morality.

We are dealing with deep neurochemical imbalances that are beyond a person's will to reason and capability to come out of profound states of guilt, depression, or paranoia. Some puffing sessions can last for days.The more that is consumed in one sitting, the greater the chances of a difficult neurochemical comedown.

If not planned and decided in advance on how much money will be spent, the chances are exceedingly high that the user will impulsively spend previously unforeseen amounts of money, usually by forfeiting payments or depriving themselves of essential needs and services.

The brain becoming overstimulated by demands of high and continuous doses of neurochemical rushes, along with prolonged sleep deprivation, can trigger those susceptible to paranoia or psychosis to succumb to accusatory behaviour or lose contact with reality

Some confessions revealed that feelings of dread, guilt, panic, or anxiety can overtake someone as a post letdown reaction of the psyche readajusting to its usual levels of neurochemicals.

This intensity process is unbearable for some. They will avoid it desperately for as long as they can financially or otherwise, as it can cause feelings of depression and irritability.

Huge amounts of money get spent.Addicts to this drug , which I spend daily or weekly a minimum of $100. The amounts climb as more freebase is needed during each session, becoming a multi-hundred-dollar affair that gets closer to the $1,000 mark all the time.

A person is usually not fit to work in such a state.The short-lived effects cause employees to use bathrooms incessantly or find ways to inhale frequently. Users often get fired or quit working as a result of ineffectiveness on the job and as an employee. Unacceptable behavior and poor performance are the main reasons.

Loss of financial security and regular paychecks does not facilitate the way for their high financial expenses and increasing needs.What holds above is exactly the same as with all those below. What we see and what

we learn from visible stereotypes, however, never include the other side of the spectrum entirely. People can consume any drug for any recreational or other reason and not follow the steps of those mostly associated with drug consumption in general.

We are shown the awful consequences of individuals who succumbed to their neurochemical states.The desperate choices and the difficult situations they wind up in lead to mental illness, crime, homelessness, or prostitution.

They will never show happy and content people who shared a tube of freebase after a family barbecue, in all dignity and proper manner, staying home, present.Children are playing around with others while everybody is appropriate or out of place, spending more than intended. They will not show friends during a concert, outdoor excu

rsion, or playing games at home , haring crystal meth in a pipe , ll while getting things done and having fun.On top of that, the prevalent social view on street drugs is negative.

Also, for those who do not consume, the very methods of consumption of many drugs do not look safe, healthy, or appealing to them. Just look at someone inhaling a rock from a glass tube. It doesn't look casual. It looks unrefined and dangerous to many.

Anyhow, this small bit of context on freebase effects and outcomes on the neurochemical health of frequent and huge-amount smokers is intended to help visualize and piece together how it went down with this community.How did people react to their first rush?

Who enjoyed it and why? Since everyone , without exception , moked it daily, did some dislike the effects? More is wanted about the fate and experience of the children and infants.

How did they react? Now , he only reason this unexpected cargo became of interest is freebase cocaine's ability to suppress hunger and distract from physical discomfort.Therefore, anyone smoking the stuff will survive longer than any other.

Although probably not necessary, given the inescapable fate awaiting them all, this would simply prolong their lives until the drug supply or death overtook them without realizing they were a mere wink away from collapsing from starvation or hypothermia.Those not willing to try it were to be shot immediately.

All others willing to try it were handed a glass tube, plenty of rocks, and instructions on how to proceed. No one was excluded from attempting to prolong their lives in this manner. Any woman, man, and child were included.

Of all the people there at the time, only one had smoked freebase cocaine before.All the others had never even seen any nor knew anything about it. The desire to survive pushed every person to join in the smoking of the survival rocks. The specifics of how it played out for each person are unknown. None of the individual experiences are known either.

It is not recorded how a first experience felt, nor how the children reacted to the effects. The absence of any survivor is the most well-known fact.By the time help reached the little outpost, only the deceased bodies of every woman, man, and child were discovered in the most puzzling of circumstances. There were glass tubes and white rocks everywhere.They had all smoked the freebase cocaine until death overtook them. The news spread like wildfire. Never had such a drama with this added drug twist being seen or heard of before.

The most gruesome part for many was the evidence of even young children and infants having been intoxicated before their deaths. In the warehouse, still much of the drug remained untouched.Even without restraint, there was so much of the stuff that no matter how generously and frequently each individual took his or her doses, large quantities remained

I wonder what happens to the leftover freebase cocaine. Can't help but feel that surely, it was seized and distributed among colleagues and cronies.The leftover freebase cocaine was undoubtedly smoked and shared.

Even with every person in the community smoking at full capacity every day for a short period, there was too much for them to finish. It is also unknown how or up to what point they lived longer smoking the drug than if they hadn't.

There are currently no data on such matters, and no clues or information were left behind.What is certain is that no one died through violence or murder.All deaths could be separated into three categories: overdose, malnutrition, or hypothermia.

No one knows either how the crate of freebase cocaine accidentally made its way up north. It seems to be a freak accident that may or may not have made a difference in these people's lives at a critical moment