Cocaine Crack/base: how long do they keep?

[Chaurus]

Dear Bluelit interfriends,


Hope you are well, I am safe and sober and solvent, but...

-this is in theory, because I'm sure I'll normally finish anything I get in a few hours-

...how long do crack or base keep if left alone in a dry room temperature bedroom cupboard?


Answers on a postcard,

Chaurus

 

[Docta]

...how long do crack or base keep if left alone in a dry room temperature bedroom cupboard?

Decomp over 12 months period wouldn't be significant enough to be of concern.
Assuming a low humidity environment crack (cocaine freebase + sodium/ammonium chloride) will actually increase in potency over time as it loses water entrapped during manufacture.

However, Cocaine freebase derived using the diethyl ether method can show surface discoloration due to the formation of benzoic acid, but not enough decomp be more than -1 to 3% total purity.

Here are the storage/lose over time lab tables-

REF: -
Casale, John & Jones, L.M. & Boudreau, D.K.. (2008). Crack Cocaine: A Study of Stability over Time and Temperature. Microgram Journal. 6. 114-127.

 

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

haha noones crack has ever 'went bad' (out of liquid or fire) in the history of crack I don't think. If anyone's has I want the story

 

[paranoid android]

I could never sleep with coke in the house years ago. But crack wont go bad lots of guys make crack from coke and sell rocks and it may take awile to sell it all

 

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

Man the second time I bought coke I was so paranoid about it being found I hid it in a gum wrapper down the side of the couch ---- apparently for the first time ever they decided to clean down the sides of that cuz I found it in the trash after many hours.

Haha that's what it did to me before I picked it up. (Nah never really was my thing but losing 100 dollars as a poor teenager certainly wasn't either)

 

[Chaurus]

Decomp over 12 months period wouldn't be significant enough to be of concern.
Assuming a low humidity environment crack (cocaine freebase + sodium/ammonium chloride) will actually increase in potency over time as it loses water entrapped during manufacture.

However, Cocaine freebase derived using the diethyl ether method can show surface discoloration due to the formation of benzoic acid, but not enough decomp be more than -1 to 3% total purity.

Here are the storage/lose over time lab tables-

REF: -
Casale, John & Jones, L.M. & Boudreau, D.K.. (2008). Crack Cocaine: A Study of Stability over Time and Temperature. Microgram Journal. 6. 114-127.

Wow!

Thank you!

Tubular tables!