How Is It Taken
PCP is produced in liquid, powder, and tablet form. There are numerous methods of taking it. It is smoked, snorted, injected, or swallowed.
Smoking: The Most Popular Method
The most common way users take PCP is by smoking it, either in a pipe or in cigarette form. Liquid PCP is sprayed or sprinkled onto some kind of leafy material. Marijuana is used, but so are common herbs such as mint, oregano, and parsley. Commercially sold tobacco cigarettes are sometimes dipped in a solution of PCP. Menthol cigarettes are often preferred for this purpose because PCP smoke is extremely hot. Users believe that using mentholated cigarettes or mint leaves will help to cool the smoke and keep the mouth and tongue from becoming irritated.
PCP is sometimes used to disguise poor-quality marijuana, or even to make common herbs such as parsley seem like powerful marijuana. Users may not be told that PCP is the real active ingredient in the plant matter. When applied to marijuana or other leafy matter in this way, PCP is referred to as killer joints, killer weed, lovelies, supergrass, superweed, and wets, among other names. PCP is also frequently sold as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the active ingredient in marijuana. Genuine THC is almost impossible to buy on the street, so almost anything called THC is likely to be PCP instead.
When PCP is sprayed or sprinkled onto any leafy material, it is most likely spread around unevenly. Therefore, two cigarettes from the same batch of PCP-treated leaf material may contain vastly different amounts of PCP, with one having as little as 1 milligram of PCP and another as much as 20 or more milligrams. Tablets, powders, and liquid forms of PCP may also vary widely in strength and purity, adding to the difficulty of knowing how much is really being taken.
Snorting and Swallowing PCP
The powdered form of PCP is snorted, or inhaled, often through a straw or tube. Snorting PCP is far less common than smoking it. If PCP is taken by swallowing, it is usually in the form of tablets. The PCP and the tablets are made by illegal drug manufacturers. Therefore, there is no standard colour, size, or shape by which to identify them. While PCP itself is usually white, yellow, or brownish, tablets can easily be dyed any colour. Knowing that PCP has a bad reputation, drug dealers frequently try to make PCP tablets look like other, more popular drugs.
Injecting Liquid PCP
Far less common than smoking, snorting, or swallowing PCP is the practice of injecting it into the bloodstream with a syringe. While taking PCP in any manner is very dangerous, injecting it exposes the user to even more hazards than other methods of taking it. If users who are smoking the drug begin to overdose, they will frequently pass out before they reach critical toxic levels. Those who snort or eat the drug will often vomit if they take an overdose, which quickly removes some of the poison from their bodies.
But if the drug is injected, there is no easy way to get the excess out of the person's system. Death is more likely than it would be if a person overdosed using another method of ingestion. In addition, the use of dirty needles by PCP users increases their risk of contracting HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus), which can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), and other viruses.
PCP is frequently added to other drugs such as amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), heroin, ketamine, and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in order to produce more intense or strange effects.
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