Contact high

Contact high is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs in otherwise sober people and animals who come into contact with someone who is under the influence of drugs. It involves a supposed transfer of the psychological state of height. A glossary of drug users' language from the 1970s describes the term as "a psychogenic 'trip' without taking drugs by being close to somebody while he is on drugs. It is incorrect to use it for the high obtained by inhaling the smoke of other marijuana smokers."^[1]

In Alexander Shulgin's PiHKAL book under the 2C-I entry, a notable reaction is observed in a participant who takes a placebo, existing in an environment with other people who are under the drug's influence.^[2]

Stanislav Grof, together with his wife Christina, experienced a contact high assisting a person under LSD therapy described in his book When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (2006) in Part 4 about Pecherskaya Lavra (p. 213, in German edition).

Cultural references

• Rocket Science released an album with the same name in 2001.
• The Godz' first album is entitled Contact High With The Godz.
• The Soup Dragons song Contact High, is a track on their album Hydrophonic.
• Scissor Sisters and Ike & Tina Turner had B-side songs by the same name.
• Donovan Leitch's song House of Jansch contains the line: "I gave my baby a contact high."
• The Beach Boys song Kokomo features the line, "Give me a tropical contact high."
• Nerdcore rapper mc chris released "Older Crowd" which contains the line "can't believe it, I smell reefer, we might get a contact high" specifying the other party had been using marijuana.
• The Austrian movie Contact High deals with this phenomenon.^[3]
• In an episode of Family Guy, Meg Griffin has smoked cannabis and has been lazing on a couch. Stewie comments, "It's really sad. And a tiny bit funny! Oh my god, I think I'm getting a contact high!" before falling into a similar state as Meg. "Oh, now I'm messed up too."
• Australian indie rock band Architecture in Helsinki released a single in February, 2011, named "Contact High", which according to frontman Cameron Bird is about "the notion of a contact high through the intoxication of love."^[4]

References

1. ^ Wolfram Keup (1971), "The Vocabulary of the Drug User and Alcoholic: A Glossary", Substance Use & Misuse, 6, p. 353
2. ^ "Erowid Online Books : "PIHKAL" - #33 2C-I". http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal033.shtml. 
3. ^ http://www.contacthigh.at/
4. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3141199.htm

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