@barq thanks for the kind words man. I do like to keep my ear to the streets when it comes to this type of stuff. It is often very strange and interesting what goes on with these pressed pills.
You are absolutely right, these people do just gobble up blues especially the Scots, if they contained fent the death count would be huge and police would very quickly work out the common denominator.
Same goes for the kids popping bars to be all cool, they wanna show off how much they can handle (stupid but it is what it is) so again there'd be deaths all over if they were pressed with fent.
I've seen a lot of scare stories about fent bars from the UK media. Fent bars have been found in the US and occasionally in Europe, but nowhere have I seen evidence of them being found in the UK. Pressers have a huge incentive - both in terms of pure business and LE risk - to be sure their bars do not contain fent. If they contain etiz or whatever they don't care. But they don't want to end up selling fent.
And yes what you say about customs is exactly right. Actually most of the packages do get through fine. The Chinese are masters of stealth. However the occasional pack will get seized. So as you rightly point out, this is further incentive to make sure they can make the most out of the product they get.
It's sensible to test new batches to be on the safe side for sure. Any time I get bars (which I only ever do as a last resort, I prefer blister packs even if they're only 0.5mg, still would rather have proper pharma) I will send one into WEDINOS so I know exactly what I'm taking. I do the same if I get a new brand of diazepam, but there I only ever get blisters because they're far easier to come across, and recently my guy has been selling Martin Dow blisters which are legit. But even some blistered diaz is fake these days, Neliz being a perfect example, so it is always smart to send one off to WEDINOS if it's a new brand. Fake Ranbaxy blisters containing etizolam and melatonin have also been doing the rounds.
Finally as for Neliz, it seriously is a mystery! I have a theory (and this is just pure speculation on my part, so take it for what it is) that the actual company itself was set up to divert benzos across Europe to make easy money in a country with corruption and loose regulation. They came out of nowhere, no one had heard of them before they suddenly flooded the DNM's and the streets, the packaging was proper professional and looked as if it came out a proper pharma factory. You can usually easily tell fake blisters, like I have seen fake Actavis blisters which were extremely obvious, not only were the details all wrong but the foil itself just peeled right off the plastic! Yet the Neliz blisters were of a professional grade despite the dubious contents of the pills themselves.
And now for the strangest twist of all, suddenly they have real diazepam in them. So if that fake batch (or batches) had never existed, and the new ones with real diazepam were all we'd ever known, we'd have no reason to be suspicious of them at all.
My speculative theory is that someone set up a pharma company as a front to distribute benzos to the European black market. The company is Spanish and it's possible in its poor economic state someone with the right contacts could have paid off the right people to look the other way and not check anything. Initially they tried to get their supply from China but got sold a bunch of RC's instead. They didn't bother testing before hand because they were sloppy, but they had pharma grade equipment for pressing and packaging.
After realising they'd been making fakes, either they started buying the API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) elsewhere - e.g. from an Indian lab instead of a Chinese one, India is a huge producer of API's and is again pretty lax on regulations while also being more reliable than the clandestine Chinese labs - or they started synthesising their own diazepam, which isn't hard to do as a pharma company at all.
Maybe they knew the initial batch would be dodgy, but the Chinese labs are cheap so they used it to make big initial profits which they invested back into the business to begin producing real diazepam tablets, knowing that once lab tests were done and word spread that the new batches were legit, benzo heads would happily buy them. Or maybe they simply gambled on the fact that their customers wouldn't care as long as the pills contained some type of benzo, same as the home pressed blues all over Scotland.
I would be very interested to see an EC lab test for the new Neliz batches, as that would show the dosage. I'd be curious to know if they're bang on 10mg or if they're more like the MSJ's where the dose varies.
One thing is for sure. The fact they now contain diazepam shows that whoever is now making them has access to legit pharma API's. China does not produce diazepam. So they're getting it from a real pharma supplier. My guess is India assuming the pills are still being banged out by a dodgy operation (seems more likely than everyone suddenly getting legit ones). But the curious question is where are they coming from? My theory really is just a guess... but it is possible.
Oh and one more very interesting development which frankly I'm surprised did not happen sooner:
Pressed bars now containing flualprazolam. There's been multiple results like this popping up on WEDINOS recently. This actually makes a lot of sense, as flualprazolam is from everything I have read practically identical to alprazolam in effects but about twice as potent. It even has the same bitter taste as regular alprazolam! So again, less needed per bar, but the effects are almost identical to genuine alprazolam. I am just surprised it took this long for someone to come up with the idea. Flualprazolam has been around in the US and available from China for over a year at this point. It makes perfect sense to press it into bars.
You can press a bar with 1mg flualprazolam and it would feel virtually identical to ~2mg alprazolam. Drug feels the same, tastes the same, and requires less active ingredient. Flualprazolam itself is also an RC being pumped out of China in large quantities, so would be cheap, and I believe it's non-controlled in the UK too (it would obviously fall under the PSA, but the substance isn't specifically controlled under the MoDA). The fact it's legal in China also makes it cheaper to buy from the labs and you are much less likely to get sent the wrong benzo if you buy a legal RC, not alprazolam. It's also really easy to get flualprazolam powder from European RC sites, which is easier and safer compared to dealing directly with China labs.
I'm not sure if it's just me but those two presses look different as well. Slightly different font and detailing. If so, it looks as if multiple pressers are using flualprazolam in their bars now. I hope this trend continues. Considering its similarity to alprazolam, it is much better than mystery bars containing fuck knows what like doxepin. And I'd actually be curious to try flualprazolam, it's meant to hit harder than regular alprazolam with that extra potency etc.
