My speed turned orange!

Hi,

I bought some amphetamine (sulfate) powder a month ago on Evo. Quality is average, but does the trick when I have to stay up late working. Insufflated, the initial effects wear out fairly fast (lasting no longer than an hour or so), so I'm guessing it might be cut with caffeine or similar. More subtle effects tail on for several more hours, plus it does have that wonderful phetty smell to it, so I'm guessing it does have some speed in it.

Powder was initially white when I bought it. I keep it in the fridge in a small airtight container with a couple of silica gel baggies to avoid moisture. I recently took it with me on a camping trip, as my friends tend to drink too much, too fast, and wind up crashing out way too early. I figured it would help prolong our evenings around the campfire & fight back Captain Morgan's tendency to knock everybody out too soon in the night.

And thus it did! "It" spent 4 days in my backpack, mostly in the shade (with me), with a few morning in the roasting hot tent. Max. temperatures were probably around 70º F (20º C), and up to around 90º F (30º C) in the tent a couple of mornings.

Upon returning home, I stuck it back in the fridge. I took it out yesterday evening (it's been about a week), and it appears to have gone partly orange. Any idea what that might be a sign of? (It hasn't been mixed with anything, nothing has been spilled on it, and it lives in an airtight container)

I don't happen to have anywhere nearby where I can have it analyzed, and was hoping maybe someone who's a bit more knowledgeable than myself, with some notions of chemistry, might be able to help me figure out why such a reaction might have taken place, if it's an indicator that I shouldn't be touching the stuff, of anything in particular it may have been cut with, etc.

Thanks a ton!


Comments


[19 Points] Amph_Paste_is_Shite:

Paste or powder? Please don't buy paste. Educate yourself. DNM's are a wonderful opportunity for drug users to DEMAND quality from their dealers, and let unscrupulous ones fall out of business. Therefore, you should never support the human scum who will try to sell you paste.

The fact that paste vendors will claim 73-80% purity at the same time as admitting that "drying" (i.e., letting the carcinogenic and neurotoxic solvents that have been added to bulk up weight evaporate) will cause a loss in the 30-40% area should tell you just how fucking retarded paste vendors are. This isn't as much directed towards you as it is a general public announcement.

The reason your amphetamine turned orange is most likely that ephedrine sulphate (a common precursor) was used during synthesis. As perfect synthesis in clandestine settings is damn near impossible, so it's likely that there is a somewhat considerable amount of leftover ephedrine in it - that would also account for the effects you experience, and are ascribing to caffeine. Some of the sulphate has been reduced to sulphur - this causes the orange colour.

This is a plausible scenario, but not necessarily the correct one. Could be other things. Given the fact that people sometimes get a batch of speed with a considerable amount of amphetamine in it that happens to be orange, they equate and attribute the potency to the colour, which is fallacious. This, in turn, has probably caused some idiotic dealers who do not know what they are doing to add food coloring to their product. Not an uncommon occurence.


[1 Points] Alex4921:

I have heard from a few sources that there's something....different and good about orange speed to the point where one guy posted on here trying to find it desperately once


[1 Points] Forkokland:

Who did you order your speed from?


[1 Points] DuCruu:

Personally I've found that snorting speed paste (dried) gives great immediate effects but wears off quickly. Taking it orally has been much better.


[1 Points] _GordonBombay:

You should consider doing an acetone wash. You'll lose some grams but the impurities and cutting agents you're running into will be drastically reduced. I buy bulk speed paste, dry it, run it through a wash and end up with quality amphetamine powder that's easier to dose. Most of the amphetamine powder I've found on the darknet varies in quality so much that each batch doesn't dose the same way. Paste is cheap and easy to purify.