Another prime example of the fact that people will always get high or intoxicated on something, no matter what that thing is. It’s all about availability and price and always has been. This is why the war on drugs is a ridiculous waste of time and resources.

I was given ether as an anesthetic for a tonsillectomy in 1959 in Olympia, WA at age 5. I was carried into an operating room by a nurse and laid on a table. Without warning several adults held me down by my arms, legs and head while a doctor pressed a gas mask over my mouth and nose. The chemical smell was overpowering, like acid burning the inside of my skull. I tried to kick and scream but as I closed my eyes I saw fireworks and seemed to fall backward into an abyss of timeless panic. Later I woke up and the nurse brought me ice cream.

As an Estonian I can confirm that there are ether users in Estonia, but this video showed me truly another side of the story as in Estonia drinking ether seems more mystical and i'd say even cool. For context, most of the ether users are from south-eastern region of Estonia called Setomaa, that historically has been inhabited by Seto people, but that region has always been really poor so that probably explains why it was popular there. But people here don't drink ether recreatinally like was seen in the video, but it is seen more as a medicine. I haven't really seen it myself, but as far as I've heard from others, people who do drink it, don't drink it that much at a time and mostly in times when they are feeling sick or worn out. It is completely legal and I've seen it sold legally in southern-Estonian fairs as a drink, but I don't think you can buy it from any regular stores except hardware stores as starter fluid. But most of the people who buy it are old people who have grown up in Setomaa. There aren't many young drinkers and of those who drink ether probably many do it only because it is thing that seems to inseparable part of Seto culture and is seen as part of Seto cultural heritage. For context Seto culture is also kind of popular in Estonia as it seems mystical and somewhat primal compared to overall Estonian culture, so you will probably find many Estonians who will say that they would want to try ether if they had the chance, but not many who have actually tried it as it isn't that accessible outside south-eastern Estonia and not that tempting of a drug as people see it more as a historical medicine and are aware of it's actual health implication. But I haven't really heard of anyone who has ether drinking problems, but I have heard of people complaining that their grandparents house stinks, because their grandpa likes to drink ether etc.

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Very intresting and very beautifully done. I'm from Europe and I didn't know about this. You lean something new every day 😌

I went to a party in the early 1970's where a girl was huffing ether from a quart bottle that she had stolen from a hospital. She offered me a hit. I was immediately in a total blackout, senseless. After a few minutes I came back to myself standing in the same spot, I don't know how long I was out but I gave her the bottle back and quickly left her sitting there on the floor huffing away. It was a terrifying experience, one I will never repeat.

Oh man these visuals are really great and there’s so many I wonder who drew- it’s ai, damn it

A note on the chemistry of (diethyl) ether: Ethanol is CH3-CH2-OH Sulfuric Acid is H2SO4. The acid donates a proton (a positively charged hydrogen) to the ethanol to give: CH3-CH2-OH2(+) This positively charged molecule will be attacked by a neutral ethanol, and the -OH2 will leave as water (H2O). Giving: CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3 Notice that there is no sulfur in this compound. The sulfuric acid is a catalyst that is not consumed in the reaction (The attacking ethanol also loses a proton which the sulfuric acid can regenerate with). So the foul burps and farts are not explained by sulfur, since it would be separated from the ether before consumption. My guess is that the ether affects bacteria of the gut to form some other bad smelling compounds. Ether is pretty unpopular now, so I enjoyed listening to this topic!

As an antique bottle collector, I have come across many British "Bateman's Chlorodyne" bottles. There were other brands of chlorodyne, but most of them contained morphine or opium, cannabis Indica, chloroform or ether and other substances, in a solution of alcoholic spirits. The bottle dumps of the U.K. are filled with these bottles and are identifiable by the cobalt blue glass, embossed ridges and the words "NOT TO BE TAKEN" embossed sideways on the bottle. It was labeled as a poison to deter abuse, but was definitely intended for consumption by the patient or customer.

This is the first KZfaq content I’ve ever seen about the ether epidemic! I remember reading that Moneymore, a small town close to where I grew up, was an early epicentre. It was so bizarre to think that this sleepy little Ulster town was the site of one of the first modern drug epidemics. Nobody knows this, I’ve loved reading about drugs and related topics for years and that’s the inly reason I know about it. Impressive to see a KZfaq video on it.

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I have been a chemical operator at various companies in the Greater St. Louis area for over a decade. I am also a former avid drug enthusiast. I have worked with Ether and it's many other sister compounds, and I tell you what! Nothing is scarier than a group of 7 men all standing around laughing their asses off at the word mop bucket. It's dangerous, but that high is something else.

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I’m Irish and I never knew about Ether Abuse. The late 19th century was a dark time for Ireland in the aftermath of the great famine and it’s understandable that people drank to suppress terrible memories.

I remember reading a Curious George book once where he stumbles upon a bottle of ether and huffs it. It made me laugh because I was old enough to know what substance abuse was and to have it show up unexpectedly with such an innocent character was kind of funny.

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Here in Brasil ether popularized itself in a mixture called "lança perfume" or throwing cologne in a literal translation, which is basically ether + chlorophorm lol. It is generally consumed during brazilian carnival by huffing and for years it was socially acceptable. Kids would buy it and throw it on other kids (hence its name), while adults would huff away and go to narnia for 30 seconds.

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Ether and glue were a major problem in the 90s in many post-soviet countries, esp. Russia where people and kids were high on glue because there were no other (hard) drugs readily available. It's crazy to what lengths people would go to get high for a couple of minutes.

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My mum was a theatre nurse in the 1960s Australia & Ether was still being used as an anaesthetic: dripped carefully on a mask held over the patient's face during the surgery. It was being phased out & replaced with other medications, but not because it was problematically flammable. Instead, because of the way that it was administered, it was sometimes difficult to get the precise dosage for certain patients - leading to them becoming partially awake during surgery. (nb: This was less about the patient being in pain, or freaking out, but that the patient's writhing 'round was irritating the surgeons as they tried to work.l

ACE used to be the big anaesthetic trio: Alcohol, Chloroform, and Æther. People died all the time. 😬😬😬

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Ether is an EXTREMELY popular party drug in Brazil, mixed with Chloroform (or somethimes ethyl chloride) it is known as “Lança Perfume” (fragrance sprayer) or simply as “Loló”

I actually had a classmate who had claimed to enjoy sitting on the football field at night with a blanket covered in starting fluid because it made him feel good. Now that actually makes sense I guess.

@Horses, I have enjoyed your content. I like the subject matter, narratives, narration and the art work. I have seen all of your videos from the start, up to this one and I think the art work on this one is the best so far. The art reminds me of Egon Schiele and Ralph Steadman. Great job and thanks.

As a person who has huffed Ether less than a year ago, i find this video to be super interesting, but also a bit misleading. Drinking Ether is terrible for you as it boils in your stomach leading to a build up of gas, causing rupture. Huffing Ether in moderate dosages only causes you to smell terrible. Also an Ether high is far from an alchohol high. Ether is a dissociative psychedelic, and people who have never taken other dissociatives relate it to alcohol, but it is way closer to Nitrous or dxm. I am I no way condoning Ether use, as it is very dangerous to store and use, and never drink it, huff it or turn it into prince Ruperts drops.

Usually I don't comment on random videos but this is beautiful content! The pacing of your speech, the imagery, the music, they're all fantastic and despite the subject matter it was a really soothing video and super easy to listen to. Thank you, I'll definitely check out more of your content :)

Really enjoyed this storytime! Looking forward to more.

Great documentary. Keep up the good work. The music definitely added to this. Great choice.

So, after watching all that, we're still left with the question of why Hunter S. Thompson was so scared of it. Seems like even schoolchildren could drink it before class.

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Nice to see Cr’s video vaults making its way into your B roll. Shows you did your research on ireland well for this! Great vid

No idea of this, amazed this isn't better know. Really well made video, too.Thank you!

In final fantasy games, ether is used to restore magic power. After learning more about it in this video, it also explain the hairstyles of the main characters.

Utterly fascinating subject, love details of older life like this which get completely wiped out by the passage of time but completely dominated life in the past (like the bi-phasic sleep of the pre-industrial age) - a fantastic piece!

These were some of the most moving and powerful images I've seen on this channel.

A couple notes on this video from a chemistry perspective: - Ether does reek but it does not smell like sulfur at all because it doesnt actually contain any and high purity ether has always been super easy to make. I can only describe the smell as being a very strong, almost sweet chemical smell. - Ether not only used as an anesthetic, it's been widely used as a solvent (basically a substance that's used to dissolve other chemicals) for basically the entire industrial era because of its chemical properties and how cheap it is. This is probably why it was always so accessible to people. As a sidenote, anyone who's taken an organic chemistry class has probably handled ether before, and I've never met anyone who wasn't totally adverse to the smell of it. Besides that, its so volatile that you can see the fumes coming off of it at room temperature. Any time I've worked with it, I left the lab with a headache. So, the idea of drinking it is so crazy to me

It was available in the pharmacies until about the end of my grandparents generation. (The 1990s). I remember being given a few drops in a mixture with camphor on a sugar cube when I was having a flu or something, as a child. The use of industrial solvents and glue containing them, was a problem with some kids, even until the time I was a student.

Its crazy how forgotten Ether is as a drug. It is a testamate to how once something is out of sight it becomes out of mind and how we just decided to ignore the cycles of addiction seen in Ether, Weed, Alcohol, and many other more recreational drugs and the connection it has to poverty. Instead they are just banned and an moral panic ensues until we forget/stop caring and a new drug takes the place since the root cause is never truly addressed.

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Incredible Illustrations!!!! Brilliant! Really enjoyed and appreciated beautiful work!!! BRAVO to the Artist, and very good video subject & Narator

I absolutely LOVE the artwork on this video, man! And you're narration as well. I like your down to earth way of speaking, including the curse words in places where they fit perfectly and make me laugh. Thanks, man!

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This is an amazing informational companion to explain Outlander Season 6! Even the hairstyle change. Brilliant writing.

This was really interesting thanks for the content.

In Brazil, ether based drugs are quite common. Loló is the most popular one, being a cheaper and homemade alternative to lança perfume, which has to be made through a industrial process. Loló is basically ether, acetone and formaldehyde mixed together. During carnival in Olinda, you can find it being sold in every corner, and people huffing it everywhere.

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I absolutely love this art style paired with information. Excellent video!

Amazing illustrations!

Thank you for researching this and coming out with this very informative video. R.I.P. Mr. Thompson.

You managed to peak my interest in the first few seconds of the video, the drawings are stunning, hope to see a lot more of your content in the future

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This was an awesome watch, i loved it. Drug history is always so interesting to me. i hope you do more on drug history.

This is a great video. High production value, well written on a very interesting topic and well narrated. Thank you for making this video. I'm a new subscriber now. You just blew my mind.

Your visuals on this video are beautiful!

At first I thought you we're going to talk about Absynthe but I didn't expect ether. Great Doc, very informative, TY👍

Ether isn't as bad as H.S. Thompson said imho. I bought some from the pharmacy when I was a teenager. We did the pint of it over several occasions - it's a crazy, strange feeling and the breath is very nasty after doing it...but I found e.g. anxiety on weed was worse than everything that I felt on ether. Edit: it's also not true that you smell like it for weeks, it's hours or half a day at most. It's the same effect as alcohol, as it gets out through your lungs - just that ether has a way worse smell. It gets really obnoxious even to yourself, that doesn't really happen with alcohol

My former roommate and good buddy has a really friendly stoic demeanor. He doesnt really drink or smoke weed, he is more of a do acid ever two years kind of guy. He has always been like this other than for about eighteen months he very methodically did a new drug every weekend. He was so in control always even on meth. He just has aplomb i dont know how else to say it. Doesnt have any mental health problems. Did a bunch of drugs that started with 2C. Weird stuff online from Shulgin. Its weird because he just wanted to try them and he never repeated any. He also was a chemistry major and synthesized his own ether and he said it was the inly drug that scared him. I dont know if he was scared at other times and forgot. I dont know how good a chem major would be at synthesizing ether somewhere somehow. I dont know if a lot of that calm demeanor and stoicism is just an act. But ether is the one that he said was scary. And the one he doesnt recommend. Its weird to describe someone who has done every drug as sober minded. But he really is. He did opiates and meth and says he understands the addiction potential and doesnt recommend them. But ether was the scary one

Great video! Loved the art work. Good job making itcseem animared! Kudos! Informative too.

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I highly doubt that humans have any idea about who was the first one to smoke weed (like he mentioned) 😆 Since it most likely happened many millennia ago.

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Its crazy that this was once THE "hard drug" of Europe and now it's so obscure it appears as a potion in many video games, including kid friendly ones like Pokémon.

This was very informative! Thanks for the history lesson.

Wow. Fantastic documentary. Fear and loathing is one of my favourite books. I love Hunter S Thompson. I am not a drug taker but always wondered why ether was so scary in fnl. Now I know. I also used to work in a watch repairers for 30 years using ether every day. It degreases the hair spring on watch balances. The smell is lovely. If only I'd known the job could have been alot more fun. We also used Ammonia (to clean in an ultra sonic tank),sulphoric acid (cleaning gold and silver) and cyanide ( playing gold). In a small room with no extraction fan.

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Thanks. Yet again another segment of history that has been in the "move along folks, nothing to see here" category. The art work is great.

Jenkem is dirtier, but I get the point.

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Interesting...good narration and excellent illustrations

I love that you started with one of my favorite quotes from Fear and Loathing...😇🙏

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I'm from Latvia (a baltic country to the south of Estonia) and I have never heard of anyone consuming ether today or in the past, nor can I find sources in my own language. I believe it has happened but maybe not so widespread or maybe nobody wished to record something like this. We have jokes about diluting pure ethanol with water for cheap booze, but that's the closest thing to it. Very interesting video, fascinating how a trend can be so wideapread yet in the near future noone remembers it anymore.

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Excellent topic and explanation

I’ve done ether, it’s pretty amazing. Thought I went back in time and solved the problems that had caused my most recent relationship to end. Only downside is your breath smells like a goddamn gas station when you come back to reality

Great video, i consider myself fairly knowledledgable about history and the fact that i didnt really know about this drug is a great lesson on source bias when it comes past cultures

Incredible, Thankyou!

“Ether, the worlds dirtiest drug” *Tranq has entered the chat*

I was staying at a friend of a friend's place one weekend in Baltimore so that I could attend Otakon, a large anime convention. This was sometime in the early aughts. They let me stay in one of the roommate's rooms that wasn't there at the time. They told me the jar on the desk is ether that the person who lives in that room made, and that i could help myself. Upon careful consideration I opted out of trying it 😆

Beautifully done! Wonder where the visuals come from, they give me Egon Schiele vibes

Fantastic video, Would love to see one on the history and uses of nitrous oxide

Psilocybin,LSD, shroom and ketamine are absolutely life changing substance that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues

This video is amazing and your format is also incredible! wondering, are you the one that draw the pictures? in any case, amazing job on each video! thanks!

Balticum or the Baltic states consist of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia exclusively! Scandinavia consist of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. If you add Finland and Iceland you get 'The Nordic States'. Anyways, great video!

The art is outstanding, Midjorney AI is great at creating those pencil, ink and watercolor feeling

Thank you. Well done.

The thumbnail and artwork in this video is incredible! I love it! I had no idea about any of this, I’ve of course heard of ether being used recreationally - but not like this. And addiction rates of 90 percent!!! I think this is telling of how hard life must have been at the time for these people, when life is so hard, sometimes a little lubrication comes in handy. But school kids taking it before school broke my heart. It’s all heartbreaking - humans hurting so much that they’ll do whatever they can for any bit of relief

Very interesting. I grew up in Poland and lived in Ireland and the first and only time I’ve heard ether mentioned was in Fear and Loathing 😂 I’ll be showing this to my Polish and Irish friends and family, great video 👍🏻

When one happens to be in college studying pre-med, it came to light that there was a store of ether that was easily accessible in our department. With the bravado of youth, we assured ourselves that we would never take a "heroic dose". Experimental trials produced many giggles. That One Guy decided he could handle said dose. He passed out and there was concern. Fortunately, being a group of pre-meds, the gigglers observed the poor passed-out idiot until he recovered. We concluded that huffing ether was terrible and, to my knowledge, never repeated.

Great mini-doc ~

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