Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something of an outlier. Most people have a rough idea of what \u201cacid\u201d or \u201cmolly\u201d are supposed to do, even if they\u2019ve never tried them. Ketamine, meanwhile, remains\u2014outside of a committed sect\u2014an enigma. It\u2019s not a very popular recreational drug. There is no standard Hollywood version of the ketamine trip. You hear talk of k-holes, and the occasional allusion to its use as a horse tranquilizer, but little on its actual effects, and less on what it\u2019s like to take it in a clinical setting, which more and more patients with depression and mood disorders will soon be doing. To correct the record, for this week\u2019s Giz Asks we reached out to a number of people who\u2019ve conducted clinical ketamine trials.<\/p>\n