BEg2 chapter 15 methcathinone

[Michael Bailey]

“Well, for Igor it’s methcathinone, also known as bathtub speed, “The
bathtub in this case being, my guess is it’s over in Jersey.”
     “Sid always has good product,” Igor nods, “not this cheap
kitchen-stove Latvian shnyaga which is pink from permanganate they don’t
get rid of, before long you are deeply fucked up, like you don’t walk
right, you shake? Latvian dzhef, do me a favor, Maxine! don’t go near it,
it ain’t dzhef! it’s govno!””

1) permanganate - the “purpurstoff” from GR

2) this stuff wasn’t scheduled till the mid-90s, I’m pretty sure I got
something like it in the mail, back in the 80s, it wasn’t all that great
though (but I’ve never reacted well to speed or coke.) Got drawn in by
descriptions of traditional khat chewing.

(There was this company called Inner Center in Hermosa Beach, if you sent
them a letter saying you used these things as sacraments, they sent you a
catalog with a bunch of products including cathine and/or cathinone, and a
variety of pseudo ephedrine analogues under brand names like Toot-Uncommon
and the like, all of which came in little plastic envelopes and created a
certain localized numbness and perhaps increased concentration with a
smidgen of euphoria. They even had parsley flakes saturated with 5-MeO-DMT
which I just read is the main ingredient of toad venom. That did do
something but honestly it wasn’t very pleasant.)

3) Parkinsonism (“you are deeply fucked up, you don’t walk right, you
shake”) is a known side effect of the permanganate leftover from sloppy
synthesis of methcathinone

4) Maxine isn’t drawn to it, but respects Igor enough to go through the
motions of accepting his advice against Latvian “dzhef” (seems to be
Russian for methcathinone) because it’s really “govno” (“bad shit”)

5) “shnyaga” online definitions are vague.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shnyaga&=true

1) noun - most frequently used to describe some object or body part
2) verb - used to describe an action mostly between two people such as
fighting, having intercourse, etc.

That is one catchall term!