The last part:
Another interesting fact which happened in his life was a year when he lived in India, in Orissa, a traditional state in the Bengala bay. Very archaic part of india, with their own language, over 100 million speakers of that language.
He lived 1 year total but in 2 years period because his ex-wife was learning traditional dance there but had to ocasionally be back in europe due to his chemical business in washington. In pharmacies there, they sold 15mg phosphate codeine, pure, without paracetamol (which again he mentiones its horrible stuff, very toxic), for very cheap. He realized that in Puri, the traditional capital (not medieval like europe traditional, its neolithic), there is a pre-vedic shamanic god called jaganath mandi (sp?), black, no arms, where next to this main statue there was a government shop called “government ganja and opium store”. He was amazed with the existence of this. This was legal, you could get tolla of ganja or charas (10.5g) for 10 rupees, which is around 70 dollar cents. And 10g opium for around 2 dollars.
Traditionally opium isnt smoked. This happened because the portuguese introduced tobacco through hongkong together with the spreading of opium. It was rather taken orally, where it is twice as potent. Opium is a very good medicine against diarrhea, common to have in india. At the same time he was also chewing betel nut, which is the seed from the palm of Areca Catechu, which you wrap around the leaves of Piper betel, plus some calcium hydroxide and sometimes tobacco, which is a good anti-parasitical medicine. So Ott was using opium and betel as a medicine against the bad sanitary conditions of India and never had any problem.
So he maintained himself this year or two as he lived in india, but every time he returned to USA he had to quit use because he did not want to have problems bringing stuff with customs. So every time he had withdrawal symptoms, so he knows about it more than anybody. But there is a trick for diminishign nearly completely withdrawal symptoms which I posted in another thread in the healht and safety section.
So he went back to codeine use whenever he went back to USA. He would go to Canada again with a friend, to get the codeine, and he started making business with it. He could get it for 4 canadian dollars (nowadays its 10 canadian dollars, around 7euro) the pills with 1.6g of codeine phosphate, which is around 1.2g codeine freebase. Then he would isolate codeine, and react with BBr3, boron tribromide (which is very reactive), in acetone bath with dry ice to cool it, you can make codeine into morphine with 80% yield, which is very good because morphine is around 5x more potent ,and then would turn it into heroin. So from 1.2g codeine base, he would obtain 1g pure heroin. His friend who did it with him was using one of the highest heroin uses he ever seen, his friend at the peak was using 1g pure heroin a day, which is an absurdly high amount. This friend ended up going for methadone clinic in tacoma.
So Ott was trying pure heroin for first time, and he did it maybe 30-40 times in his whole life, he isnt fanatic about it. The same people who had ripped him off the first time with the heroin synth also came with some dirty cocaine they didnt know how to clean up, which he did, and he was injecting both together few times, something called “speedball (bomb?)”, but it wasnt really his thing. But he tried few times because he likes to experiment new things. To him, vaporizing freebase morphine is more impressive. But you cant smoke the salt because it has high boiling point and breaks down. Similar with cocaine, you could smoke cocaine hcl but will be very innefective. Inhaling cocaine is 10x more potent than injecting cocaine. With injecting morphine its not so different than inhaling the freebase in terms of potency.
But Ott saw that injecting heroin was not good, it is too “grabbing” and demanding, cant really live a working life, and feels like a pharmacological extreme sport/roller coaster, and he preffers endurance sports. For the same reason he doesnt like vaporizing DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, or Bufotenine, he preffers snorting them, as instead of 10 mins it lasts 1 hour. So he stopped using it.
Then he went to leave in southeast mexico where his second wife was from, where he has been living since 1987, in a small town in Vera Cruz state, at 1500m altitude, in a zone with very tall trees, where there are plenty of psilocybe (cearulescens) . When he went he was happy he would finally be able to get his opiates easily but then the yankee paranoia affected mexico, and then it also became much harder to find codeine or other opiates. The only formulation available was tylexCD (sp?), only with prescription, paying more than 10e for 0.9g codeine, mixed with paracetamol, which is very toxic for the liver. Paracetamol also has a horrible taste, and its very gooey so it blocks filter papers.
So everything dissapeared in Mexico after that. Except Neopercodan, which was very available, which is a synthetic opioid, Propoxyphene. There are other synthetic opioids used in pharmacy, like oxycodone, one of the very common ones used to control opiates. USA consumes 50% of world opiates, with only 5% of the world's population, so 10x more than its quota, while having a huge opiod pharmacopeia. Another one used is dihydromorphinone, a very potent simple derivate of morphine, twice the potency of morphine. There are other derivates that are as potent as LSD in terms of weight (microgram doses), with an opioid action. These are not morphine derivates, but derivates of thebaine, a secondary alkaloid which does not have opioid actions. With one extra carbon, morphine turns into codeine, and yet another carbon, it turns into thebaine. Thebaine can be turned into many things.
Bentley in england in the 50s made compounds such as etorphine, or M99, which is 5000x more potent than morphine. The blackmarket synthesized other alkaloids such as parafluorofenthanyl or alphamethylfenthanyl that the pharmaceutical industry didnt use, which are also thousands of times more potent than morphine. There are other alkaloids of this kind which chemically arent opioids. Like methadone, or dolophine, from Eli Lilly. Eli Lilly has always been the “fast cook” of poisons for CIA, involved in many shady business. George Bush father, ex-CIA boss, ex vice president and puppet of reagan, and then president and then puppet of clinton, before becoming vice president, he became head of Eli Lilly.
So Ott tried basically every one of these compounds he could get his hands on. But generally he preffers the compounds that are derivates of morphine or thebaine or cocaine.
Sometimes people say China White as heroin, but actually its Fentanyl derivates. Fentanyl is completely artificial, it has nothing to do with morphine or thebaine structurally. You can see its not heroin, it doesnt have the typical smell of heroin. It is active in microgram doses, like 100micrograms. Ott thinks, those such as alphamethylfentanyl is a better experience than heroin and is longer acting. Pharmaceutical companies use some short acting fentanyl patches for medical anaesthetic effects. There are also fentanyl patches which can last 72 hours.
One time Ott was in USA for some short time, (where he feels its like a concentration camp so he never goes there). Someone gave him these fentanyl patches for 72 hours, and he put 2 thinking he would get a decent dosage, but then it was way too strong, and after a few hours he had to take out the patches, he couldnt breathe, he had to snort cocaine all night to maintain awake and breathing.
Every once in a while pharmaceutical companies invent a new opioid and say “At last, a perfect one to get people rid of opioids, that isnt addictive”, but soon enough its seen to be addictive and have problems, and then soon enough they bring a new one. Same thing with benzodiazepines.
Oxycontin, which in USA it was sometimes called hillbilly heroin, is made and packeted in mexico but its very hard to find it being sold there. Now in mexico there is tramadol. but it doesnt give a good high like morphine, but its equally anaesthetic. Often there is a drug tourism from old people in USA that go to mexico border or to canada border because some things are much cheaper or more available.
Then ott started taking diphenoxylate (nomotyl) after propoxyphene was removed from market in mexico, but then after 8 years or so this was also taken off the market, or actually the same medicine changed the content, which he only found one day taking plenty of it and not getting the desired effects.
Now he has found a different source for codeine and is using that.
The Q&A section one dude asks about 5-MeO-DMT. He says he snorts the freebase, insted of smoking, at dosages, around 5mg. If one adds 4 or 5mg of harmine or harmaline mixed with the 5-MeO-DMT, it doubles the potency, so 5mg snorted would be like 10mg. He says 5-MeO-DMT can be taken at 30mg without harmalas, and with harmalas (around 100mg) one could take only 10mg as it triples the potency
