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Title: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: x0rx0f on March 18, 2012, 04:27 pm

Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.

Hello all here's a little piece i just wrote on adulterants and mainly the Levamisol issue.
I hope it might contribute to awareness and risk avoidance, and perhaps provide some insight.
Levamisole is becoming more and more of a hot topic. To not hijack or clog up any other threats Ive created this one.

I would like to classify adulterants in 3 categories, the classic harmless cuts, the prescription med cuts,
and the really dangerous shit.

Examples of all 3 categories;

1) Mannitol, Inositol, Chalk, Flower, Sugar, Lidocaine, Caffeine, Lactose, Quinine,
2) Hydroxyzine, Phenacetin, Aspirine, Diltiazem
3) Atropine, Levamisol

Some figures on averages from The Netherlands;

In 2010 95% of all powder samples did in fact contain cocaine.The cocaine concentration averaged 52% (in terms of
weight) About 25% of the samples contained phenacetin, However, the concentrations of phenacetin that are used as a mixing
agent are far lower than the therapeutic doses which were feared to induce harmful side-effects.

There has been an upsurge in the use of the mixing agent Levamisol. This drug was
used to treat cancer, but was removed from circulation for human use in 2004.
It is still used in veterinary medicine to treat worms. In 2010, 64% of
cocaine powders contained this substance, compared to 12% in 2007.

Our main focus will be on levamisol as it poses most risk to health and its rise as a cutting agent.
Cocaine mixed with Levisamol has been linked to a dangerous
deficiency of white blood cells, which reduces resistance to illness

The DEA has seen levamisol in large shipments of cocaine. Which as some know leads us to believe that
the levamisol is mixed in on the coca farm or at least in the country of origin.
The Levamisol contents was around 6% of the total weight. So a 1KG block would contain around 60 grams of Levamisol.
This would translate down to a 60 miligram levamisol contents per gram of cocaine.

Semiquantitive tests in the Netherlands have shown that around 60% of dutch cocaine is contaminated with Levamisol.
So there is a good chance your cola has some Levamisol in it. These tests have also shown that the Levamisol level is
around 3-4% on average. This would mean a 30-40mg Levamisol level in your gram of cola.
The tests show mainly heavy users of heavy contaminated cocaine are at risk. The chance of developing a blood decease might be minor yet its there.

Now what do all these numbers tell you? not much really. we need some points of reference.
First of all we'll assume you're a moderate user, and you dont go on heavy binges a lot.
Also we'll take into account that SR has some pretty decent cola. so you don't need to stuff a full gram up your nose for a nice evening.

Lets say you'll do .25 to .40 gram in an evening. taking above numbers into account this would mean there could be around to 10 to 20mg Levamisol in there.
Assuming you'd do around 10 lines from a .40 you would take in 1 to 2mg Levamisol.

Now for another point of reference. Patients with colon cancer where treated with Levamisol in the past but this is not the case anymore
due to the bad side effects and the questionable efficacy of Levamisol in patients. A patient would be on either a twice a week or three days every 2 weeks
schedule. A little more math and guessing would say that these patients had a Levamisole intake ranging anywhere from 100 to 450mg a week.

Personally i hate adulterants. I want my product to be as pure as possible. If the product, HAS to contain adulterant, i prefer it to be from
the classic cuts class. I'd take some Mannitol over Levamisol any day.
Since so much of todays coke has Levamisol, i would even go as far that Levamisol free, will be of more importance to me over strength/purity.
I'd rather have 70% Levamisol free cola then 80% pure but with a little leva cut.

This is a call for everyone able to, to test the cola offers and post the results. Many shoutouts to the people who are already providing us with data.
Often vendors are not aware of levamisol in their product, so have some decency and contact the vendor first before posting any slander.

In the not so far future, i see levamisol levels, or lack there of if you will, become a major selling point.
Especially if the rise of levamisole continues on to even higher levels.
A vendor able to provide data proving his cola is Levamisol free will certainly catch my attention, and my business.

A perfect score for no leva would ofcourse have preference. a 10 to 20mg levamisol per gram level i would concider worth ignoring.
a 30-40mg levamisol level per gram i would concider acceptable. Anything higher then 60mg levamisol i would consider to actually throw in the trash bin.
Anything that contains over a 100mg of levamisol, i would concider a free chemo.

Only by not buying Levamisol contaminated coke we might stand a chance on bringing levamisole levels down.
Most of this text is comprised of various information i gathered reading up on this subject.
I hope it may serve some purpose. Any suggestions, propositions, comments, etc are more then welcome.

Kind Regards,

x0rx0f
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: AbraCadaver on March 18, 2012, 06:29 pm
Interesting stuff. The dates in your background story may tell a separate story of their own; Levamisole banned for human use in 2004, starts to creep into cocaine shortly after. What I'd like to know is this: is it that Levamisol is still available in large quantities for cheaper than other cutting agents BECAUSE of left over inventory from when it was banned, or is it just inherently cheaper to produce anyway?
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: x0rx0f on March 18, 2012, 07:20 pm
Good point!
It is an awkward coincidence, that the sudden uprise of levamisole started almost right after prohibition as a human medicine.
This could be explained by the fact there where probably more then a few parties willing to get rid of the stuff, so prices might have been cheap.
A little research shows that there isn't a very large scale levamisole production going on. In fact i even see some cattle and fish tank owners (yes its used as a fish/coral med too) almost begging for some.

There is rarely a case where large shipments of levamisole are being seized. There is 1 case where a 50kg shipment of leva was seized.
Fishtank owners are complaining about the leva prices going up. It seems to be a rare substance. which is strange.
As far as i know Agrilabs is one of the producers of levamisole. it is mainly used in their Prohibit productline.
Each packet contains: 46.8g of levamisole hydrochloride activity.  Nothing really amazing, would probably be expensive.

AgriLabs Levamisole Hydrochloride Soluble Pig Wormer is also one of their products. It lists for around $15 for about 20 grams.
While one could easily get 1000 grams of mannitol for under 50 dollars. Which leaves us with a price ratio of 0,75 for a gram if leva and 5 cents for a gram of mannitol. So a rough estimate about the levamisol business tells us it is 15 times more expensive then mannitol cuts.

Why the fuck use levamisol then?! well one theory is, and it is supported by some research, that levamisole influenes dopamine release
in the brain and boosts the cocaine rush, seemingly providing a proper cola experience with lower quality coke.
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: element12 on March 18, 2012, 09:55 pm
2 reasons people cut with levamisole:
1- It increased dopamine levels, making cut cocaine seem stronger than if it were cut with mannitol
2- It has the same solubility properties as cocaine, which means an acetone washed batch will still contain the levamisole and thus it will appear the unwashed cocaine was pure to begin with.

That said, it is a terrible adulterant and I think the negative side effects far outweigh the profit.  There have been several reports of it causing a flesh eating rash and red or black scars from insufflating (keep in mind as a worm drug or cancer drug it is not insufflated, so while it's risky for that it's even riskier to snort)

The tricky thing is that it's so hard to remove.  There was some speculation on bluelight that it decomposes to the thiol 3-(2-Mercaptoethyl)-5-phenylimidazolidine-2-one at pH 4 if left for 5 days, whereas Cocaine HCl is fairly stable.  This can then be mixed with aqueous sodium hydroxide where the thiol is soluble and Cocaine will fall out of the solution.  Don't know anyone who's tried this yet.

EDIT: link- hxxp://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/525731-Seperating-Levamisole-from-Cocaine/
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: AbraCadaver on March 18, 2012, 10:15 pm
Well, put it altogether and it sounds more like coincidence then. It sounds as if Levamisole output for cocaine producers is threatening supplies for legitimate use, so hopefully the Lev to Coke ratio is self-limiting right now (god forbid production starts ramping up to meet demand, cocaine could become truly horrendous judging by Levamisole's qualities as a cutting agent + the difficulty of removing it)

I'm going to say the same thing I said in another thread: South America, Silk Road needs vendors! We have bitcoins!
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: technofarm on March 19, 2012, 01:42 am
thanks for this info guys!   I want to try and stay as safe as possible
Title: Re: Cocaine, Adulterants, and the rise and rise of Levamisole.
Post by: x0rx0f on March 19, 2012, 12:32 pm
Thanks for the input and comments people.

Main priorities are indeed :

- properly detecting leva. (dancesafe.org has been working on a kit) for ages..
- how to wash/remove it properly
- removing leva from the supply chain altogether.