K, cool thanks guys, I was sure that it was normal for heroin shots to mix up brown but I had started a thread about reusing cottons/surfaces from earlier the same day or the night before, and that I figured there was dope in them because there was some brown colour to them. Since my shots were always brown from the start, I figured this was a good sign that there was dope in these cottons/surfaces. Someone then posted that, "Diacetylmorphine (heroin) is bleach-white in it's crystalline (hydrochloride salt) state; dissolved in water it results in a clear solution. Just FYI. If your shot is brown, it has something other than diacetylmorphine hydrochloride in it." I guess I took it the wrong way.... I know that nobody gets pure heroin from anybody. However, this leads me to wonder, what makes it brown? If pure "heroin" is supposed to dissolve into clear solution then why does all heroin disslove into a brown solution? Is it just natural chemicals that grow in the poppy pod that don't contribute to the high? Forgive me if I sound like a moron here, but I'm just curious at this point.