Dear Vice,
Sweden is notoriously behind with its drug laws. Shrooms and ketamine were only taken off the market last year. So when we heard that Dragonfly, an LSD-type designer drug - was being criminalised, we decided to celebrate it by buying the last legal batch left in the country and trying it for ourselves…Dragonfly is extremely potent and a trip is said to last about 12 hours. It is usually sold in blots but the place we bought it from doled it out by the jar. The selling of such large quantities lead to the death of one young man. He bought a jar, dipped in the tip of his pinky and licked it, unaware that Dragonfly has to be diluted down to the milligram. The guy overdosed and died.With this in mind, we opted for the regular blots. They were about one Euro a pop or something ridiculous like that, so we bought like 20. We decided to try it out the adult way and started out with a minimal dose -- a quarter of a trip on a Sunday afternoon. The only noticeable effect was a stuffy nose and a longing to watch movies. A couple of days later we did half a blot but, again, it had absolutely no result whatsoever.We were getting sick of this and decided to give some to our friends, partly because we'd promised to, and partly because we wanted to get rid of it. So we all did one whole blot each, ate a herring dinner and drank several St. John's Worth snaps shots (it's Swedish tradition), and then went swimming. Yet again, there was absolutely no effect, so around 1 AM we gobbled the remaining six blots. My buddy did one, I did one and my husband scooped up the rest.Not long after that, my husband's beard started to sparkle. It was really, really pretty so I cried a little, which seemed weird but whatever. Then the sun came up and the world exploded in colour. Every flower, every little straw of grass and every bird was fluorescent. Everything that moved looked like the video that Michel Gondry did for the White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button." Everything was great, apart from the fact that we felt like hippies for looking at flowers.Around 5 AM, with me sitting on the porch, shivering in the morning rain with no shoes on, it finally seemed like the Dragonfly started to ease off a bit. I noticed that my hubby was hiding inside the house, making hand gestures to persuade me to come in. I was out of breath and aching to go to sleep. It was around this time that the Dragonfly REALLY kicked in.You know that dream that Sarah has in Terminator 2 with the nuclear bomb? That's what the world looked like. Everything went white hot. The sky turned into an inferno of colour. The grass caught fire and melted towards the sky. Absolutely everything vibrated and I couldn't walk without clinging to the wall. This kind of mayhem went on until about 7 AM, when I wobbled into the house.I then entered what I like to call "Hellraiser" mode. Big hooks were piercing in and out of my brain and my body. Sometimes I would regain lucidity but then I'd suddenly lose all sense of reality and self. I thought a lot about the guy who died, wondering if this was what he had felt like right before his heart stopped. I thought about drug psychosis and what it would be like to be stuck in this state for the rest of my life. At 9 AM I finally passed out and started dreaming about deep forests crawling with mice and fireflies and girls with bells in their hair. It was almost scarier than being stuck in "Hellraiser."We woke up at 1 PM and I was still high and I started to think that I'd be on Dragonfly for the rest of my life. I was obviously not going to be able to keep my job and I'd probably start wearing a lot of tie-dye clothes with mirrors on them. But at least I wouldn't need a TV anymore. At 4 PM I had to get up because my friend, who took one blot at 1 AM, started freaking out too. He was walking around, falling into cacti and laughing at the wallpaper. At midnight I passed out again. The next morning, more than 24 hours after I started, I finally stopped hallucinating.Thankfully, I didn't have to quit my job, and two days later, I felt normal again (although I still feel funny when I look at the sunset). However, I'm fucking glad they banned Dragonfly.
Sweden is notoriously behind with its drug laws. Shrooms and ketamine were only taken off the market last year. So when we heard that Dragonfly, an LSD-type designer drug - was being criminalised, we decided to celebrate it by buying the last legal batch left in the country and trying it for ourselves…Dragonfly is extremely potent and a trip is said to last about 12 hours. It is usually sold in blots but the place we bought it from doled it out by the jar. The selling of such large quantities lead to the death of one young man. He bought a jar, dipped in the tip of his pinky and licked it, unaware that Dragonfly has to be diluted down to the milligram. The guy overdosed and died.
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