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Ketamine Research Paper

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Ketamine is a clear liquid or an off-white powder. Ketamine is a hallucinogenic drug. Ketamine can cause 30-60 minute hallucinations. It can cause a few different types of hallucinations. The hallucinations could be mellow and colorful, a near death experience, or a blissful infantile inertia. Hallucinations usually occur within a few minutes of taking a drug.

Ketamine was created for use during medical procedures and operations. It can keep people from being able to feel pain. Sometimes when ketamine is taken the person can still move, and when it isn’t used for medical purposes this can make it deadly. When this happens the person could be a victim of a car accident, or a sexual assault. Other times the person can’t move, and the person feels dead. …show more content…

Liquid ketamine is injected or mixed into drinks. Powdered ketamine could be snorted, or smoked with a cigarette. It could also be found with a combination of other drugs. Ketamine is a synthetic drug.

The first step to create powdered ketamine is evaporating liquid ketamine. When the liquid ketamine evaporates it forms crystals. Once the crystals have formed they are grounded into powder. Some side effects of ketamine are an increased heart rate and blood pressure, and nausea. Ketamine is also known as cat valium, jet, K, Special K, Super Acid, Super K. Some harmful effects of ketamine are amnesia, respiratory problems, and mental problems. Ketamine causes about forty-six deaths per year. The first offence for being caught in possession, or under the influence of ketamine is no more than ten years in jail. Fines for the first offence is $500,000 if individual, or 2.5 million if it isn’t individual. The second offence for ketamine is no more than twenty years in jail. The fine for the second offence is 1 million if individual, and 5 million if it isn’t

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