You like reading fantasy? I have a feeling you’d enjoy Powder Mage by Brian McClellan.
Main Character gets his magical powers by snorting gunpowder.
Pretty good series, pretty sure the author’s an “acolyte” of Brandon Sanderson, so if anyone reading this likes the Cosmere you might like this series as well.
Been on my “reread” list for a while but the list keeps growing…
The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. None of these chemicals are psychoactive in humans.
Things don’t need to be psychoactive to be addictive. 🤦♂️
Hooked on phonics?
The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.
Wat inthe FUCK is that?
Donald Trump last week.
Gorn.
Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.
🤣
Blackpowder. But there is also modern smokeless powders that is also called gunpowder. It’s nitrocellulose, sometime nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine and a few stabilizers and fillers.
Still not psychoactive.
apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf
And in the early days they obtained the potassium nitrate by boiling shit. Might be the opposite of addictive.
smokeless powder is, sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin#Industrial_exposure
Only The Power + Just The Tip
No. But who needs chemical addiction when you can be addicted to the feeling of power over life and death it provides?
