Fuck all that shit HowieNot looking for something interesting, just a sleep substitute. Someday perhaps I can return to the 300mg or so a day ephedrine habit that had me weighing in somewhere in the 150's when i graduated from college.
I always had a problem rocking out with robo, becuase there was this long period after coming down from the generally pleasant hallucinogen type effects where I just kind of felt like poo and couldn't go to sleep. I generally prefer options that let me crash when they cease to amuse.
As far as that other shit is concerned...I don't really trust the natural ephedra...I've never gotten the same lil' charge out of Metabolife as I have out of a few mini-thins, but I guess that's primarily due to quantity ingested. It's probably all those other diet herbs and shit they put in there.
As far as most ironic treatment of a substance, my pick would have to be alcohol, my spirit drug. Like many other drugs, if you take too much it will kill you, if you do it too often you'll become addicted, you do really stupid shit when you're on it (potentially putting others at risk), it does permanent damage to your body, and it can fuck your unborn baby up. Yet,
I would have said tobacco, but such a good job has been done of creating bad PR for cigarettes that I almost hesistate to say smoking is a socially acceptable practice nowadays.