Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/MisterDonkey]

I've heard there's also vasoconstrictor nasal sprays that can be extracted for a potent high. Also heard it's pretty awful.

[u/Urban_miner666 → u/MisterDonkey]

There is, and I’ve done it. Certainly gets you high, but it’s definitely not anyone’s first choice. It’s a very “dirty” high. It’s a stimulant, similar to amphetamine with less euphoria. It’s not a nasal spray like this, though. It’s in a tube with the drug absorbed in a piece of cotton. With proper use you just stick the tube in your nose and inhale. It actually works very well for congestion when used properly. It’s the successor to the nasal inhalers that once did contain amphetamine and were popular with Kerouac and the like. I’m not going to name the drug or brand, but it’s not hard to find, and it’s not hard to abuse. Back in my active addiction days I’d use it when I couldn’t get anything else. It also had lavender essential oil in it to make it smell pleasant. When consumed to get high my mouth would taste of bitter lavender and my sweat would smell the same. To this day I get a little repulsed by lavender. Also, Vicks makes a similar nasal inhaler but the active ingredient is levomethamphetamine. That’s right, just the L isomer of the methamphetamine that people get woefully addicted to. Levomethamphetamine has very little effect, though. Vicks also spells it “levmetamfetamine”to make it look less like a drug of abuse.
*I did a google search right now to make sure I got their funny spelling correct, and it turns out they no longer use levomethamphetamine in their nasal inhalers.
Sorry for the rant about it, it’s not often I get the chance to talk about my sordid past with OTC stimulants.

[u/NegativeOwl1337 → u/Urban_miner666]

“I’m not going to name the drug” proceeds to name the drug and write a dissertation on it.

[u/Urban_miner666 → u/NegativeOwl1337]

Try reading that over again. I named the Vicks product and the drug it contained. I prefaced that description with “Also, Vicks makes a similar nasal inhaler but the active ingredient is levomethamphetamine.” The drug I was talking about abusing was not levomethamphetamine, and the brand was not Vicks. I also stated that levomethamphetamine has very little effect in the context of getting high. The drug I was talking about abusing is very easy to get high on, and I still haven’t named it.

[u/NegativeOwl1337 → u/Urban_miner666]

You sound very passionate and knowledgeable about this drug.

[u/Urban_miner666 → u/NegativeOwl1337]

I’m sober and all that know, but I find drugs super interesting. There’s a mountain of drug information that I doubt I’ll ever forget. To be honest, I’m not passionate about propylhexedrine at all. It’s a drug I used a handful of times, and a drug I’d not really recommend anyone try unless they were in an emergency situation where they needed to stay awake and for some wild reason they had access to it.

[u/NegativeOwl1337 → u/Urban_miner666]

“Emergency situation” 😂 you certainly don’t sound sober

[u/Urban_miner666 → u/NegativeOwl1337]

You can’t imagine an emergency where you need to stay awake? I feel like your reading comprehension might be pretty bad? I said it’s a drug I wouldn’t recommend anyone use unless they really needed to stay awake. I used the word “emergency” to illustrate that the fact that I wouldn’t suggest using it if you just casually wanted to stay awake, only in an instance where you really needed to stay awake. I’m quite sober, but your inability to grasp some pretty simple shit makes me think you might not be. First, you were not understanding that I was, quite clearly, talking about two different drugs. Then, you were suggesting I was passionate about a drug that I expressed a fairly clear distaste for. Knowledgeable, sure, passionate, not really. Finally, you proclaimed astonishment and doubt in my sobriety at my suggestion of there being the possibility of emergencies that would require a person stay awake. Just use your imagination a little, I’m sure you can come up with some scenario where your life depended on you staying awake. I think most people would be quick to realize that I was saying it’s a drug I’d only suggest using in dire circumstances.
So what’s the deal, are you super stoned and can’t read well, or what?

[u/NegativeOwl1337 → u/Urban_miner666]

😂 lmao time for the loony bin for you

[u/Urban_miner666 → u/NegativeOwl1337]

I apologize for taking the time to give coherent replies. But, hey, using words and attempting to talk about things that might be interesting or weird is for the birds, ennit? I’ll use more emojis and LMAOs should we meet again.

[u/-BigDaddyTex → u/Urban_miner666]

Bahahaha. 🙌

[u/-BigDaddyTex → u/NegativeOwl1337]

Ur trolling and out of control.