Drinking Ether?

I've read back in the day people used to drink ether, any one heard of this? From my idea of ether i would think this would be toxic or at least very harmful to the body imo. has any one tried this im just curious, as every thin i know says this would be bad. Any just looken for other opinions. I also think this would be like drinking rubbing alcohol but idk.

 

Kids used to play with Mercury, they used lead pipes for their water systems and countless other things which we now know to be really, really bad ideas.

I think the ether stuff was what they cut moonshine with, and why allot of folks went blind. Could be wrong there, but I'm fairly sure.

 

I think you're supposed to huff it and i gets you high. I don't think you're supposed to drink it.

Don't really quote me though, i'm not an ether expert.

 

Breathing ether will make you pass out fairly quickly.

I've used it quite a few times in my life... usually to start a cold desiel engine... and once (to be repeated in the future I'm sure) to reset the bead on a tire.... spray around the rim between the tire and the metal, stand back and toss a match at it, not only will it pop the bead back on, but will also put 20lbs or so of pressure into the tire at the same time, really useful when stuck in the middle of nowhere with a tire that came off the bead...

Of course to me... something that will do those things, is usually not something I would consider to get high on...

 

language changes overtime, maybe the word ether meant something else?

 

Oh no i had no intention of huffing it or by and means drinking the stuff! I was just curious if any one else had any information on this. IMO thought I've never been to kin on the idea of killing brain cells just to obtain a worthless 10 to what 45 minute buzz, no thanks I'll stick to ethyl alcohol, and the other worth while Substances :ssmokeit:

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It can be either drank or used as an inhalant, and it actually used to be used as an surgical anesthetic (it actually still is used today in some parts of the world).
It probably kills less brain cells than glue sniffing anyway

 

Haven't you watched Fear and Loathing in LV?!? LOLZ

 

hahaha hell yeah.
that movie makes me wanna do ether and go into Circus-Circus so bad :d

 

depends on what kinda glue... but Inhalants are more damaging to other organs first..

 

Oh yeah i love the move Fear and Loathing! (one of my favs) but I'm quite positive they depicted the use of high quality antistatic grade (devil?) ether, and to my understanding I don't think the common psychonaut would would be able to obtain this. Though i don't believe Devil Ether is the same as the readily available Diethyl Ether aka starting fluid. Also i agree it would seem to be less damaging than most other inhalants minus of course nitrous oxide.

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I know that in fear and loathing, thompson mentions buying ether without a script at a pharmacy before the clerk started protesting about different item, so in 1971 anyone could buy it in a drug store.

 

Ether caused many deaths thats why it was replaced with less harmful inhalants..
Its flammability made it dangerous in the operating room..
Tetrafluoroethanes and nitrouse oxide replaces all..


The misconception in the movie FAL is the drug store scene. They buy common POPPER "Amyl nitrate" which is a prescription medicine... im pretty sure Ether never was available in pharmacy's .. Its a movie and its not real.. :coffee:

 

no I'm pretty sure his "devil ether" would have been the anesthetic Diethyl Ether
that's by far the most common ether, and since it is an anesthetic it probably has psychoactive properties

 

I'm not talking about that piece of flaming shit... it IS based on a book by Hunter S Thompson, which is in turn based on a journalistic trip he took, you are aware?

I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to buy it, though it is sometimes abused, i'm pretty sure it's not scheduled... I know the chemistry studensts at my dads old place of work got in trouble for running between labs with open ether beakers in the hallway (fire hazard) a few years back... It can't be that hard to get.

 

yeah, I read the book when I was 12.. oh nvm, that was the bible, same difference... FAKE STORY!!

 

I also just gave you a real life example of normal civilian students handling ether with the blessing of department heads and the like. Ether isn't scheduled, as far as I know, and abuse is NOT what comes to mind for most people, they would instead think of surgical anesthetic, fire hazard, and chemistry.

 

I really dont know what youre trying to say. Is it that you can buy Ether's. Sure you can buy ether, I just dont see ether at a pharmacy any where in ether's time line. If you was to buy it, it would be from a chemical dealer. Specially since it had no medical use at time HST wrote this drug crazed book..
Furthermore I believe this book came out in 1972. While it glamorized Ether.. I couldnt say what kinda influence it had on young Americans who came across the novel.. Were they as intrigued by this as people today, or did they search high and low without knowledge for anything with ether in it to get high?.. idk.. :coffee:

 

Hardware stores will have it... it is used as to help start diesel engines...

 

you can synthesize it pretty easily from ethyl alcohol, too.