methamphetamine - What else is in it?

[Mr Blonde]

I highly doubt it is MDAT. For a start, MDAT is nothing like methamphetamine. Secondly, all sorts of things could lead to the methamphetamine being colored yellow, which is a lot more likely then it being a new and relatively obscure compound.

 

[slortaone]

^ agreed 100%. ive seen meth in a few different colours, ive always put it down to being impurities. ive heard of cooks adding food colouring or something similiar to fool buyers into thinking they're buying some special kind of next level meth, lol. it wouldnt surprise me.

 

[xbLeAcHx]

my dope cook sometimes has blue shards but its just dye...i've watched him do it, the shards start off clear. very good shit but the color don't mean shit.

i don't think color is any way of telling if its gonna be good or not...it could go either way

i've had yellowish dope that was very good, made my hair stand on end good. i've also had crystal clear shards that were absolute crap.

 

[JoshE]

Well guess it has the same principle as flips. Color means sweet fuck all.

 

[Ignatius J.]

I think some of the more "unnatural" colourings e.g. blue, red are done by the cooks to make their meth easily identifiable. For example, if a bikie gang selling a batch of red meth and one of their dealers gets done over, the colouring of the product is going to make it easy to track down (and punish) the culprit.

Yellow meth i think is a different story tho...to me it seems like its something to do with the synth process because all the yellow meth ive seen has that really strong chemical smell and seems a little more "dirty" than the lovely clear crystal shards that are back out there again (albeit 5x more expensive than the period circa 2001-02)

 

[drug_mentor]

The overwhelming odds are in favour of JoshE's yellow shards being meth that has been turned yellow by impurity than being some fancy RC I doubt many had heard of.

I have smoked yellow coloured ice on numerous occassions and am damn sure it was meth. Without getting into synthesis specifics I thought most domesticly manufactured meth was produced with either RP/HI method or the hypophosphorus acid method, both of which involve the use of iodine, which can be responsible for yellow discolouration IIRC.

 

[becam]

@GurnEr JoshE @ pisspotnrock sounds like you have MDAT

6,7-Methylenedioxy-2-aminotetralin (MDAT) is a drug developed in the 1990s by a team at Purdue University led by David E. Nichols. It appears to act as a serotonin releasing agent based on rodent drug discrimination assays comparing it to MDMA, in which it fully substitutes for, and additionally lacks any kind of serotonergic neurotoxicity. Hence, MDAT is a non-neurotoxic, putative entactogen in humans.

and has a very distinctive appearance - yellow translucent crystals between 1/16th and 1/4th of an inch along their largest dimension.

I was only guessing this as I had just read about it prior to being on BL and never said that it definitely was......just was putting it out there as the invasion of RC's in the last 4 years has been huge. I would guess that it would be fairly hard to find but it can't be completely out ruled.