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A Tour of Teenage Drugs: Crack, Angel Dust, Special K, and Shrooms
from The Long Island Way · #45
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim and his guest go through a catalog of drugs from his youth—freebase vs crack highs, PCP/Angel Dust and a murder trial where a victim was discredited over it, ecstasy vs Molly, Special K holes, and whether psychedelics offer real enlightenment or just temporary escape before returning to a bagel shop.
- 1:43Crack high is supposedly only intense until you exhale the smoke—once it leaves your mouth, you start coming down immediately.
- 2:30Tim asks what Angel Dust is and learns it's an upper with hallucinogenic properties that makes people fight cops.
- 2:57During jury duty on a murder trial, the defense tried discrediting the victim by saying she had Angel Dust in her freezer, but nobody even took it.
- 3:15In that New Castle neighborhood, everybody had Angel Dust in their freezer.
- 3:31Tim used to do ecstasy pills with Mitsubishi symbols on them that had different batches, some faster than others.
- 4:06Special K was supposed to be ketamine, a cat or horse tranquilizer, and people would enter a K-hole where they'd sit staring at a Jimi Hendrix poster for an hour.
- 4:39Doing shrooms gives you that moment where you realize everything you believe was just taught to you and could be untaught.
- 5:08Tim has never done hallucinogens or psychedelics but says he's open-minded and will try them eventually.
- 5:21Tim got the same kind of epiphany moment from watching a 9-11 documentary as people claim to get from psychedelics.
- 5:36If psychedelics made Tim lose 70 pounds and start working at a bank, that would be amazing, but he misses drugs and doesn't plan to do them anymore.