A question about heroin

[posone]

Does it matter what color the heroin is, to decipher weather or not its synthetic?

 

[Diesel]

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[Gazman]

as far as I know no heroin is synthetic, it all comes from the opium poppy.

 

[Diesel]

Umm, There is a synthetic heroin! You obvisously don't know to much about it. So I would apperciate it if you would not post on topic's you don't know about.

 

[Deus121]

All heroin is semi-synthetic. Heroin itself does not come from opium poppies, morphine does. Morphine is then synthesised into heroin. The color is only going to indicate cut and quality.
[This message has been edited by Deus121 (edited 05 November 2001).]

 

[SovietContin]

I've had heroin come white, brown, tan, grey and almost a blackish color.
All heroin is synthetic. It's derived by chemically modifying opium. Some people might call it semi-synthetic. Either way, it's not a chemical found in nature.
And the color really shouldn't determine much about it at all, other than how it was processed or possibly cut with.

 

[Deus121]

Soviet is right. While really potent heroin is going to be most likly white, that doesn't mean white heroin will always be potent. There are so many things that can affect color.

 

[Homeboy]

White powder, sometimes called China White, is likely to be fentanyl. Stupid drug slang gets confusing, because technically that's what China White is, but some people refer to heroin with that term as well.
White powder = possibly fentanyl, black tar is gonna be heroin.
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[el saint]

most of time if it tastes like heroin it is----the color should'nt vary that much if you get it from the same person!!!!......I find that the closer your dealer is to the end of his batch the heroin will change color and taste less potent----just snort some and you will know with in 5min or so if it is liegit----'round here it goes from light brown to white--- and back to light brown(tan) and so foreth.........

 

[PhreeX]

Heroin is usually brown or tan, white is often synthetic (fentanyl or some analog) .. I agree, go by TASTE and not apperance! Good heroin has a very distinct taste..
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[Gazman]

Well its derived from something natural so obviously it can't be made if opium poppies didn't exist therefore in my opinion it is not synthetic.

 

[Deus121]

Everything is derived from something in nature. Do you think aliens landed and gave us all these synthetic chemicals?
Also, think organic chemistry.
[This message has been edited by Deus121 (edited 06 November 2001).]

 

[not_eatadick]

hey gazman....sure its synthetic....just realize that the only basis for dividing synthetic and natural things is inherient in the very divisions/definitions themselves...while it may seem ridiculous or absurd to call things "all natural" (where else are you going to get something), understand that somethings natural or synthetical being comes only from calling something natural or synthetic....
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[SovietContin]

Perhaps pure heroin should be white, but by far, the strongest heroin I've ever gotten has always been a very dark brown molted with grey and has turned the water straight black.
Batches I've gotten like this only require a TINY amount, even with a high tolerance.

 

[HTK]

Synthetic Heroin is exactly that, Synthetic, it has basically no parts from plants and most of the time it is fentanyl which is fucking potent stuff, like 1mg could potentially kill. The reason it is white is because it has to be cut to shit usually with lactose so its able to be used by Joe regular on the streets, If you shot Pure Fentanyl you would die, Especially if you thought it was regular stuff. Heroin on the other hand is a product of treating 1 part Morphine with 2 of acetic anhydryde so i guess the precurser is organic and it is brown.

 

[Diesel]

The question was not asking how to decipher weather or not the heroin was real or not. The question was asking how to decipher weather or not the heroin is synthetic.
[This message has been edited by Diesel (edited 07 November 2001).]

 

[el saint]

that is really a tough question to pose --as most street drugs are cut which makes it very difficult to go by taste or color----you might need a chem. kit to figue that out-- I have to say the synthetic is sometimes stronger although I really could'nt tell you which times I've were sytheic -my best guess would be the whiter dope I have had leads me to believ it was china white---- going by color look for a whiter--going by taste it should be strong as shit(syntheic)! anyway all these variables can change so it is really up in the air.....

 

[HTK]

Since it would take a lot of chem knowledge to be able to decipher which was which, your best bet is to go on colour. The only problem with this is that most of the time the cut that is used is white. If it is pure white then assume fentanyl (synthetic), if it is brown, or white with brown, or even white with a light tinge of brown then you can be pretty sure it is going to be normal smack.
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[zorn]

HTK --
I disagree; pure white shit isn't that uncommon. A FOAF gets it regularly in the Midwest. Of course, that could be fentanyl or something related; I have no way of knowing for sure. Judging from the DEA's seizure info (it's on their website) there is virtually no fentanyl going around... it's mostly regular H from Mexico, South America, and a little from SE Asia. IIRC, there was a period sometime in 80s where fentanyl was seen on the street; however regular H is now much cheaper/easier to distribute, so there'e very little fen.

 

[Trees717]

Never got fentanyl in any of my bundles, but the dope was always pure white that turns brown when you get it wet.