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Frumious Bandersnatch
I just read an interesting paper using data from all Queensland police seizures of all drugs. In Queensland all drug cases being prosecuted require gas chromatography of the sample. Looking specifically at the results for Methamphetamine it is interesting to note the impurities detected by this legal process:
In 97 % of 6,608 seizures of methamphetamine there were no impurities detected (looking only at other drugs as impurities, not manufacturing residues). Who the Fuck would put seroquel in meth? More worrying are the psychoactive cuts in MDMA and other drugs. Stick to meth. It's the purest drug on the street.
The paper is here:
Yoshimi Peck, Alan R. Clough, Peter N. Culshaw, Michael J. Liddell,
Multi-drug cocktails: Impurities in commonly used illicit drugs seized by police in Queensland, Australia,
Drug and Alcohol Dependence,
Volume 201,
2019,
Pages 49-57,
ISSN 0376-8716,
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871619301577)
In 97 % of 6,608 seizures of methamphetamine there were no impurities detected (looking only at other drugs as impurities, not manufacturing residues). Who the Fuck would put seroquel in meth? More worrying are the psychoactive cuts in MDMA and other drugs. Stick to meth. It's the purest drug on the street.
3.2.1. Methamphetamine
Almost all (97%) of methamphetamine samples were free of impurities (Table 1). The most frequently found impurity in methamphetamine was N-isopropylbenzylamine (37 cases). N-isopropylbenzylamine is known to be used to mimic or adulterate crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) because of its ready availability and similar physical properties (U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration, 2008; Weston, 2010). Our methamphetamine samples were also adulterated with common recreational drugs including MDMA, cocaine and heroin as found elsewhere (Amini et al., 2015; Baldwin et al., 2018; Dayrit and Dumlao, 2004; Giné et al., 2014; Qi et al., 2007, 2006; Shekari et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2008). Several different NPS were found including: 25C-NBOMe (4-chloro-2,5-dimethoxy-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)phenethylamine) and α-PHP (alpha-pyrrolidinohexiophenone). N,N-dimethylamphetamine (DMA) appears to be a bulking agent or a by-product of methamphetamine synthesis. One methamphetamine sample contained praziquantel, an antihelminthic drug for parasitic worm infection. Five of the Queensland samples contained quetiapine, an antipsychotic drug. This is a novel finding, as quetiapine has not been reported as an impurity in methamphetamine elsewhere.3.3.1. MDMA
Although 19 different substances were detected as impurities in MDMA, 91% of the samples tested showed no impurities (Table 1). Psychostimulants (e.g., methamphetamine), psychedelics (e.g., MDA) and several NPS (e.g., ethylone) were major impurities found in our MDMA samples, and were also found in studies elsewhere, while the common impurities such as ketamine or PMA were not detected (Brunt et al., 2012, 2017; Camilleri and Caldicott, 2005; Cheng et al., 2006; Giné et al., 2014; Neeltje et al., 2009; Palhol et al., 2002; Tanner-Smith, 2006; Togni et al., 2015). Two samples of sildenafil (a drug prescribed for erectile dysfunction in Australia) were found in MDMA samples; sildenafil has not been reported as an impurity elsewhere.The paper is here:
Yoshimi Peck, Alan R. Clough, Peter N. Culshaw, Michael J. Liddell,
Multi-drug cocktails: Impurities in commonly used illicit drugs seized by police in Queensland, Australia,
Drug and Alcohol Dependence,
Volume 201,
2019,
Pages 49-57,
ISSN 0376-8716,
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871619301577)