People don't realized how much they are being ripped off when buying these things. Listings claim 99% pure alprazolam and 84% pure MDMA, but I will explain how this cannot be. First and foremost, I only use brand name benzos because they are way cheaper than the fake ones, simply because they are made using pure chemicals. So there is actually 1mg of alprazolam in my football rather than the 2.5mg of alprazolam in the fake bars you see. The biochemistry lab at the university I attend has a GC-MS chromatograph which I know how to use. I purchased 250mg of alprazolam powder from two seperate sources. I also took trenbolone acetate from one source and oxandrolone from two separate sources. I chose these three drugs to test because I only use benzos and steroids. One would not even need a machine to tell you that the alprazolam is not pure, because it's an off-white brownish powder and pure alprazolam is white.
So I dissolved the alprazolam in methanol and placed the capillary tube in the machine. I added up the different molecule groups until I had the maximum amount of alprazolam in the solution. Came out to be a whopping 17% alprazolam. I didn't even bother testing the other one because it looked the same anyway. So, the vendors claim they use 2.5 mg in each bar. I don't doubt they do. But this just means that in reality, you are getting .425 mg per bar give or take depending on their source, but I can promise you the difference is negligible. So you are paying $2 a bar which contains less alprazolam than a peach football from the pharmacy. So the only use for these bars is to resell them to kids that don't know any better to make money. But buying them to use, you are being swindled.
Now onto the steroids. The trenbolone was a bitch to get inside a capillary tube because it's an oily ester. Nevertheless, 46% were trenbolone and acetyl groups. This explains why you can use a gram and a half of the stuff a week and not have terrible sides. Because if you took that much of pharmaceutical grade tren, the sides would be terrible. But you'd have to actually use over 400mg daily of darknet tren to reach that dose. Oxandrolone is the most faked steroid in the market these days. Even when oxandrolone was legal, it was so expensive. More expensive than the anavar you can buy illegally. So the first sample I tested actually did show oxandrolone, but it was only 24%. This makes sense because people use 100mg of this stuff a day, but you only need 20mg of anavar from the pharmacy to see good results. The other anavar I wanted to test because I knew it wasn't anavar in the first place once I began bloating when I started it, which is a dead giveaway that it's not legit, but I did definitely gain strength. So I predicted it would actually be anadrol, since I have used it and the bloating and strength gains were consistent to this. Came out at 57% oxymetholone, just what I thought.
So drugs manufactured by the black market are highly impure. It's no different than crystal meth, which methamphetamine hcl is a white crystaline powder, nor is it different than heroin which is usually brown, but should be white if pure. The reason meth synthesis is so easy is because you are only removing a hydroxyl group from ephedrine or pseudoephedrine which yields methamphetamine aka desoxyephedrine. Heroin is extremely easy to synthesize because it is a one step process of mixing morphine with acetyl anhydride which removes the two hydroxyl groups and adds two acetyl groups creating a freebase diacetylmorphine aka heroin. Half life of heroin is only 10 minutes because it is rapidly metabolized into morphine. Those 10 minutes allow the drug to cross the BBB and bind to the receptors more efficiently, which is why it is a bit more potent than morphine. In order to create a pure drug, you need equipment that can only be found in pharmaceutical labs. They use precise amounts of ingredients to yield a pure substance. So if you are wondering why those xanax bars you bought felt weak, now you know.
You are making a huge assumption that most vendors are sourcing their alpra from the same place you are. I think it stands to reason that XK and others like him are/were sourcing far purer product than 24%.