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how to identify acid

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not sure if this thread is allowed on this board, or if there already is a thread about it, but I have been hearing a lot about fake acid, some Nbome shit or something that's
a) not acid
b) potentially dangerous

obviously if I buy acid I want acid. I've never tried acid before and I predict that at some point I will so I'm just wondering if there are techniques to making sure it's real, good acid. and also how to test the potency?

thanks in advance

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Since you're from Amsterdam, you could just simply hand in a blotter at one of two legal, government-funded, test-services. See http://www.drugs-test.nl/

There you go, this is the only right answer for Dutchies. Case closed. :)
 
right, but unfortunately I'm moving back to the states (I'm originally american) this summer, so that approach won't last for long :( it is a great (and really sensible tbh) service though, I haven't taken advantage of it yet
 
if it's tasteless, it's probably acid. If it's bitter, it might be nbome or (less common these days) a DOx.
 
Order a test kit if its that important to you. Otherwise it is hard to tell if it is LSD or not. With experience it becomes much easier to determine what drug you have on your blotter. I have a pretty good method myself: the taste of the blotter (again, experience is important). If it is tasteless or metallic tasting, then you have LSD. But, sometimes LSD blotter is bitter because of the ink, in fact if it has ink it will be bitter, but its up to your judgment (and again, experience) to be able to tell if its the ink or not. If it is numbing, really bitter, soapy, sour, or any other abnormal taste, then you have some sort of x-NBOMe or DOx chemical. This is not something you should really go by though, it is flawed. Just keep in mind the taste of the blotter and the duration of the experience, and afterward you will definitely be able to tell what chemical you took. But don't stress it, the psychedelics that are sold as LSD on blotter are not bad, as long as you don't take more than one. To tell potency you need experience, but you'll never be able to tell exact dosage, just relative strength.
 
If you don't test it you won't be able to know, especially as you're not experienced, as other people said.

That being said, if you buy a nbome or another substance sold as acid, it's still not dangerous if you take only a tab. The safety problems with research chemicals are:

1) In blotter form, some adventurers may want to drop 10 or 12 tabs at once, and then if it's not lsd it might be dangerous. Keep in mind that lsd has practically no lethal dose, so indeed some experienced psychonauts might have reasons to drop 10 tabs of lsd from a good source (they wouldn't be able to leave the couch but then, would they want to?)

2) In powder form, stupid teenagers at a party see a white powder, don't even ask for what it is, eyeball it and snort, putting their lives in much more danger than in situation 1)

So test it if you can, and if you can't, just keep on the safe side and you'll be fine.
 
Let it be known with NBOMe tabs even as little as one tab can be an excessively powerful dose (some vendors advertise 1500ug doses)
But also NBOMe's are not active orally, they must be taken sublingually
 
The only way to definitively identify LSD is to do laboratory testing of the material. However, there are two primary field tests available. The first is a chemical reagent test called "Ehrlich's Reagent" which is available online from a variety of sources. It can identify indoles, of which LSD is one. It does not definitively identify LSD, but can identify that LSD is not present.

The second is a UV test based on the fact that LSD fluoresces (glows) blue to blue-ish white under longwave (360 nm) UV light. Obviously other things glow under blacklight as well, so just the fact that it glows doesn't mean it's LSD, but if it doesn't glow, LSD can generally be ruled out. The glow should be apparent in both crystal form and liquid form.

Whether or not this test can be successfully used to identify whether LSD liquid is present on other materials such as blotter or sugar cubes is more complicated. In a dark room, a blacklight held close to a freshly laid, reasonably strong (~100 ug) drop of LSD will glow prominently. However, if the concentration is low/weak enough, the glow doesn't appear. Additionally, many papers and inks can themselves glow under blacklight, so a fully glowing hit of blotter (rather than a glowing spot on the hit) doesn't necessarily identify the presence of LSD. That means that it can be more difficult to identify blotter that has been dosed by dipping the paper rather than dropping individual drops on each hit.

An additional issue, for materials sold as LSD after 2010 is that a new family of chemical, including 25I-NBOMe and 25C-NBOMe are also being sold on blotter. The blotter size and form is often indistinguishable from that used with LSD (1/4 inch x 1/4 inch perforated squares). Though there are some reports of the NBOMes fluorescing under UV light (glowing a pink or orangish color), Erowid found that a 0.1ml drop containing 1000 ug of 25I-NBOMe dissolved in 0.1 ml ethyl alcohol did not glow under either 365 nm or 254 nm blacklight. A vial of 25I-NBOMe in alcohol also did not glow. Be careful not to mistake blacklight reflection/refraction off of a glass vial for a glow. Also, many papers and inks can glow under UV by themselves, so blotter can glow in blacklight without any psychoactive chemicals being present.
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Source: http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=3013

The how-to on testing LSD compared to NBOMe: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_testing3.shtml

Hope that helps
 
Efoj said:
That being said, if you buy a nbome or another substance sold as acid, it's still not dangerous if you take only a tab.
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You can fit 5 mg on a blotter at least. So yes one blotter or even a half of one can be dangerous even deadly if the person who laid it cant do math or just doesn't know or care.
 
Just make sure the dealer has jacked up teeth and dreaklocks claiming its family stuff...

Totally joking, buy a test kit play safe and be smart. If It got to a point you were consistently getting it from a good source and it always test out, then you shoudnet have to keep testing it because they are obviously legit at that point.

Stick away from young hustlers thats step number one.

Use your best judgement in the case of no test kit, just do research! There are ways to tell but its only partially accurate and you need to see a shit load of acid before you can do this..
 
my3rdeye said:
You can fit 5 mg on a blotter at least. So yes one blotter or even a half of one can be dangerous even deadly if the person who laid it cant do math or just doesn't know or care.
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Yea, but that would be one thick ass piece of blotter. You can kinda tell acid v. nbome based on the thickness and the flexibility of the tab, but that's unreliable at best, so not worth mentioning.
 
.:Holy::Toast:. said:
Let it be known with NBOMe tabs even as little as one tab can be an excessively powerful dose (some vendors advertise 1500ug doses)
But also NBOMe's are not active orally, they must be taken sublingually
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Ehrlich tests will turn pink for LSD. It won't give you any idea of strength unfortunately. If in doubt swallow it, don't keep it under your tongue. At worst you will be underwhelmed. Better to abort a trip on an unknown substance that run the risk of a difficult one. Of course if you are prepared for a NBOMe then that is different.
 
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