Cocaine How do you actually judge COKE quality?

[Northwesternparacelsus]

A young pharmaceutical wuunderkin in Massachusetts also set out to present with similar almost utopian ideals, she was not entertained.

I remember her very professional standing. I never met her personally, seemed delighting. Atlanta is home to netflix, a video provider of streaming services, their recent documentary did not have to go so far to dispell the inner workings and its abrupt ending. How did they obtain all the footage from her office?


No Fear Act passed shortly after.

And the bluelight guidelines facilitate a much safer environment we had.hoped. have hope.

 

[simplefilter]

Not a good way to determine anything I'm afraid, given the large amounts of substances used as cut which also rock up alongside your hcl

Reality is that you cannot determine cocaine quality by smell, taste, or appearance. I've had excellent (labtested) coke that is powder, rock, fluffy, had that smell, had zero smell, various tastes etc, and also poor coke that has all the previous. Reagent tests are also notoriously unreliable

Hell, most people can't tell if it's high quality or not even after consuming. I've seen people who've used for years swear that a batch is poor quality when it's known for a fact it's been 85-90%. Also seems pretty clear that the means of production / leaf growing environment etc etc has a big effect.

Some suggestions above are helpful though. If coke is gritty while doing the finger test it's cut, so that helps - but if it's oily it doesn't mean that it's not cut either. Also the numbing teat helps - super-numb super-quickly ("I can't feel my face maaaan") then it's likely cut with another 'caine - it should lightly numb after a couple of minutes (but then that doesn't prove it's high quality either - just means it isn't cut with a numbing substance

Such a solid post. Even with some good washing, that conversion will just tell you what amount converts to a free base. Without washing, less than that.

Which makes sense. I wouldn’t want to piss off a crack head, so I’d definitely figure out a cut that would fly under that test if at all possible unless I was totally insulated from that particular type of blowback.

People have been playing cat and mouse with cuts for so long that I think they’ve contributed to it being pretty much sidelined on most scenes these days. Most people I know just won’t mess with it, especially with the proliferation of ADHD diagnosis mills.

You can tell if it’s bad if you’re really experienced in your area, and that thing isn’t new, and you’ve been around a bit, and studied a bit, and got lucky and got unlucky. Then the supply changes and you’re looking at a whole new mystery.

By bad I mean obviously bad, like you never should have been in the situation to get it bad. I really doubt most people could tell 30 from 40 and might think both were quite nice.

But testing? Ugh don’t get me started. Yes you can figure out if the reagent turns blue, but even the reagent tests are getting targeted. Dancesafe had to revise a lot of their recommendations on reagent conclusions to “doesn’t work this way anymore and we have no idea why.”

The only thing I know that is really reliable these days is HPLC with NMR and FTIR.

 

[GaumarolBostich]

I found EZ-test very reliable in determining the purity. This company provides a test for popular cuts as well.
I do an Acetone wash to get rid of fillers. The remaining stuff is a fluffy fine non sticky powder with the characteristic smell. I do hot plate Cocaine, too, because it attracts humidity a lot and dry blow is better on your sinuses.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

I found EZ-test very reliable in determining the purity. This company provides a test for popular cuts as well.
I do an Acetone wash to get rid of fillers. The remaining stuff is a fluffy fine non sticky powder with the characteristic smell. I do hot plate Cocaine, too, because it attracts humidity a lot and dry blow is better on your sinuses.

How do you know it's reliable and accurate though? Genuine question. I had unsatisfactory results from them 3 out of the 4 time I bothered (proven by subsequent labtesting). Gave up on them after that

Acetone wash definitely advisable (done properly ofc) but also many cuts are left unaffected

 

[GaumarolBostich]

How do you know it's reliable and accurate though

Good point. Reverse check of indicated quality by using it which is of course not scientifically accurate. I did compare like 20+ different batches with the purity test and the personal feeling, then having empiric stats. Found them accurate, meaning showing that purity which I felt later on.

If you had double checked with lab tests and found the results not accurate I reconsider.

I am in no way a EZ fan boy but I think any test is better than none.