Ketamine

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Ketamine
Molecule	C13H16CINO
Compound	Ketamine
Era	Modern
Origin	USA
Archetype	Milady
Ancestor	Nepal, Turkey
Swag Score	3
Date Added	2025-01-12

[view source]Effects & Properties

Effects: Dissociation, mild hallucination, dream-like states.

Natural Occurrence: Ketamine doesn’t occur in nature, it was first synthesized in 1962 by Parke-Davis.

[view source]History

Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by Calvin Stevens at Parke-Davis Laboratories in Michigan as a safer alternative to the anesthetic PCP, and it was approved for medical use in 1970. It was widely used as a battlefield anesthetic during the Vietnam War due to its safety profile and ease of administration. Ketamine entered recreational and club culture in the 1980s-90s, becoming a staple of the UK rave scene and global dance music culture, valued for its dissociative "k-hole" experiences, and has recently undergone a remarkable clinical renaissance as a rapid-acting treatment for treatment-resistant depression.

[view source]Connections

Archetype: Milady

Ancestor: Nepal, Turkey

Tarot Card: Death

PubChem: Ketamine

Paired With: Grayanotoxin

[view source]Sources

• https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine.shtml
• https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ketamine
• Ketamine - Wikipedia
• Happy 50th Anniversary Ketamine (PMC)
• Ketamine: 50 Years of Modulating the Mind (PMC)
• The Drug of War: a historical review of the use of Ketamine in military conflicts (PubMed)