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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: 4hours on March 01, 2012, 07:26 pm
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I've seen this sort of gak being sold quite a lot. It's being marketed as raw for £10 a point
It looks good, clumpy & has a pearly appearance soft not gritty. Smells right and feels right between the fingers. Not overly numbing.
However...when you do it it does pretty much fuck all. And when you wash it in ammonia you get a white-ish oil that sinks to the bottom of the spoon (looks like cum for want of a better description). Smoke it and you get a hefty blood pressure rush, pulse goes through the roof but no euphoria. Burns with a slight sweet smell.
Any ideas what this is? on initial inspection its a very good fake. levamisole with a bit of benzocaine in it? But it should be avoided at all costs as it seems like theres fuck all in it and no doubt it's very bad for and dangerous to smoke.
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My gut feeling tells me it's not cut with anything, but is actually cocaine processed without potassium permanganate. Cocaine processed without it contains many other inactive alkaloids, like cinnamoylcocaine, which block the effects of cocaine. The coke will still look good, and even test high for purity, but it won't do jack shit psychoactively, because it hasn't been refined to remove the inactives.
Coke comes from South America, where the coca plant grows natively. Potassium permanganate isn't manufactured in South America, so it must be imported. Sodium permanganate can also be used, but is not as efficient.
The processing of tens of thousands of pounds of raw cocaine paste require tens of thousands of pounds of potassium permanganate... South American producers aren't likely to hold up tens of millions of dollars worth of product for lack of precursor chemicals.
Whoever controls the world supply of potassium permanganate also controls the world supply of cocaine- just do a search for "DEA cocaine potassium permanganate", and read through some of the DEA's Microgram Journals and you'll see what I mean. Here's a good link to start:
h**p://www.justice.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/journal_v6_num34/pg2.html
And here's a good link explaining how cocaine is produced and refined:
h**p://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/cocaine.illicit.production.html#4
It's discussion of the chemistry is detailed, and not easy to plow through unless you've taken a fair amount it in college, but fascinating none the less. When you piece the clues together, a pretty clear picture begins to emerge.
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I think Phenacetin is used quite a lot because of its appearance.