Ketamine powder

About ketamine

Ketamine is also known as:

• blind
• kit kat
• vitamin K
• special K
• cat tranquilizers

It is a dissociative drug, producing a sense of mind from body separation (dissociation). It works by stopping the brain from getting nerve messages about pain. It also alters how you experience sight and sound.

Ketamine is odourless and colourless. Its effects can make it difficult for you to resist sexual assault. For these reasons, ketamine is sometimes used as a date rape drug.

When health care providers use ketamine for medical purposes they inject it in a liquid form.

When sold illegally it is generally in a powder. You can take this powder:

• smoked in a cigarette
• sniffed up the nose (snorted)
• mixed with a liquid and drunk
• dissolved in a liquid and injected into a muscle or vein

Ketamine is controlled under Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Activities such as sale, possession or production of ketamine are illegal unless authorized for medical, scientific or industrial purposes.

In Canada, ketamine has legitimate uses in medicine.