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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: skunk69 on April 19, 2012, 07:15 pm

Title: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: skunk69 on April 19, 2012, 07:15 pm
Hello Guys,

I'm new on this website and so glad to find it :-)

My question is very easy for you because your are in this business for a long time. What is the difference between the differents colour of mdma.

Does that mean something special or it's random?

For me there is : White mdma, brown mdm, orange  mdma and transparent mdma

Maybe one is stronger than another one??

Thank you

Skunk69
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: wowzers on April 19, 2012, 07:42 pm
Pure MDMA is transparent but appears snow white when the crystals are ground up.

Any colour at all is due to the presence of impurities which were not removed by the chemist at the end of the synthesis. There are often rumours that orange or 'tan' MDMA is stronger or trippier or whatever- this is not true.

However, these impurities are very highly coloured so even if the MDMA is 99.8% pure, the 0.2% impurity could be sufficient to make it appear dark orange, purple or brown.

So to summarise, colour is no indication of purity.
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: tordemon on April 20, 2012, 12:05 am
I'm glad you're always able to give us accurate chemical advice, wowzers. It really is greatly appreciated. I've never seen a post where you're wrong in any sense, and in many instances I learn something new because of your post. =]

Basically, what it comes down to with the different colors of MDMA, your dealer is just going to try to sell it to you however they can, so saying good things about the particular color will help them move product, even though they really may not know anything about it. =P
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: wowzers on April 20, 2012, 12:33 am
This question comes up periodically, along with a few others & whilst I don't mind answering at all, I do sometimes find myself being repetitive.
It would be good to have a proper FAQ for MDXX. I might start writing one which if the mods think is good enough, could be stickied in the Drug Safety section. I know most of the info can be found on Bluelight and the like but often the solid, informed advice gets swamped by bullshit & off-topic copypasta from pihkal, strike, rhodium etc.

Just a suggestion and I'm not committing to doing it right now as it would be a large undertaking but I'll give it some consideration if there's any interest in it.  :D
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: Jimmy245 on April 20, 2012, 02:07 am
Pure MDMA is transparent but appears snow white when the crystals are ground up.

Any colour at all is due to the presence of impurities which were not removed by the chemist at the end of the synthesis. There are often rumours that orange or 'tan' MDMA is stronger or trippier or whatever- this is not true.

However, these impurities are very highly coloured so even if the MDMA is 99.8% pure, the 0.2% impurity could be sufficient to make it appear dark orange, purple or brown.

So to summarise, colour is no indication of purity.

wowzers, I agree with most of what you are saying about color, but here's where I differ a little: Highly colored MDMA indicates to me either lack of skill or lack of care on the part of the chemist.  It's not that hard to remove most of the colored impurities in MDMA, so when I see bright orange MDMA for sale, I know the chemist was too lazy or unskilled to do anything about it.  Or worse, the bright orange MDMA is what's left over after evaporation of the mother liquor in a recrystalization.

So my advice to the OP is to avoid highly colored MDMA whenever you have other options, which right now on SR, you've got lot's of options for MDMA.
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: Mrambulancedriver on April 20, 2012, 02:16 am
I've had MDMA crystals ranging from purplish hue, to tan-orange, and translucent crystals.

All of been about the same quality.

Although last time i ate about 225mg of these really translucent crystals. Now that i think about it, it sounds like i ate some really good MDA, cus i was fucking rolling so hard it felt like i was tripping. I was floored, and the air around me was electric, as The Flaming Lips started playing Time everything felt almost dream like.

Shit was amazing.

Either way, in my experience color has never been an indication of quality.
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: mdmamail on April 20, 2012, 02:29 am
Color is no indication of skill on the makers part or quality. Just beware of yellow MDMA powder and all pills whatever their stamp or color is. Get a PMMA test kit from EZ test in the UK or dancesafe in Washington to make sure whatever it is you are taking is actual MDMA and not who knows what. Break the pill in half, test the outside and layers inside.

http://www.eztest.com/2/druginfo/pma-pmma

Highly doubt somebody would sell PMA/PMMA here as MDMA but on the streets you never know
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: Jimmy245 on April 20, 2012, 03:53 am
Color is no indication of skill on the makers part or quality.

I'm sorry, but that's wrong.  It's just plain misinformation. 

But you people keep buying the orange stuff and leave the crystal clear stuff for me.  That'll be just fine with me.   No problemo, hombre.  ;)
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: mdmamail on April 20, 2012, 11:52 am
Color is no indication of skill on the makers part or quality.

I'm sorry, but that's wrong.  It's just plain misinformation. 

But you people keep buying the orange stuff and leave the crystal clear stuff for me.  That'll be just fine with me.   No problemo, hombre.  ;)

Ok the bright orange MDMA is a little suspicious, but there are some labs here I know of that purposely dye their powder so it sells higher on the street, as people know the purple powder is good. If it reagent tests black and works as advertised good to go. I've bought light Tan MDMA before that was just as good as the pure white powder. Plenty of threads on bluelight.ru about this
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: randomOVDB#2 on April 20, 2012, 01:47 pm
It would be good to have a proper FAQ for MDXX. I might start writing one
Just a suggestion and I'm not committing to doing it right now as it would be a large undertaking but I'll give it some consideration if there's any interest in it.  :D

Interested !
Title: Re: Question about colour of MDMA
Post by: Jimmy245 on April 20, 2012, 06:18 pm
Color is no indication of skill on the makers part or quality.

I'm sorry, but that's wrong.  It's just plain misinformation. 

But you people keep buying the orange stuff and leave the crystal clear stuff for me.  That'll be just fine with me.   No problemo, hombre.  ;)

Ok the bright orange MDMA is a little suspicious, but there are some labs here I know of that purposely dye their powder so it sells higher on the street, as people know the purple powder is good. If it reagent tests black and works as advertised good to go. I've bought light Tan MDMA before that was just as good as the pure white powder. Plenty of threads on bluelight.ru about this

You can't have it both ways.  You can't say that color isn't an indication of quality and then say that the bright orange MDMA is suspicious because of its color.  I'm sorry, color fucking matters.  Period.  So stop with the BS and the 'appeal to authority' fallacy by citing bluelight.

And smell matters too, by the way.  Perfect MDMA will be odorless.  High quality MDMA should be odorless or nearly odorless.

If it smells strongly (of anything) and it's highly colored, it's crap.  I don't give a shit how hard you rolled on it.  It's shit.