chicagolove
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What kinda foils you get?
Any Folks here in the Memphis Tn area copping good dope?
To people that think powder is clearly superior to black tar...
I started on tar (by tar I mean big hard chunks, not that overcut brown dust with some black chunks) and got up to about 1- 1 1/2 grams a day after 2 years. I would smoke it, and very occasionally would shoot it. After I moved to Chicago, I started getting powder, and noticed it was considerably weaker, no nod unless I did a ton, mostly just euphoria and not getting sick, and that was with slamming it (I have a great white hookup, barely cuts his bags, and also will sell me a raw rock, uncut by him)...
I realized this was against conventional wisdom, since I always read powder was more pure, but I've recently (about a year ago) read that black tar is approaching the purity of street powder (I wish I could find the source). I tried to make sense of it, since even if they are the same purity I should at least feel them the same, and after I read a few articles on wikipedia, I think I've found out why I was feeling tar much more than white.
**From 'black tar heroin' on wikipedia-
-It should also be noted that the percent of the remainder of black tar heroin is often other psychoactive opiate substances, like 6-MAM & 3-MAM *in addition to* the usual adulterants and dilutents found in other forms of illicit heroin.
**From 'heroin' on wikipedia-
- In particular, users report an intense rush that occurs while the diacetylmorphine (heroin) is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain. Diacetylmorphine produces more euphoria than other opioids upon injection. One possible explanation is the presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine, a metabolite unique to diacetylmorphine. While other opioids of recreational use, such as codeine, produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho-active metabolite.
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(numbers below are not accurate, just a representation for example's sake)
The way I read this, is lets say that your black tar is 60% pure heroin. Aside from the cut, there is a large percentage of the remaining tar that is also 6-MAM due to the process of making black tar. 6-MAM causes an intense rush, and since it is in natively in black tar and not powder (all heroin metabolizes to morphine and 6-MAM, but 6-MAM is a byproduct of the process used to make black tar, so in your typical tar you not only have just pure heroin, but also 6-MAM), that could be a reason why I percieved tar to be stronger than white.
I guess an easier way to explain it would be this: I get a gram of tar and a gram of white. They are both 60% pure heroin, but since the tar also has 6-MAM in it, I would feel it more. So not only would the tar be something like 80% opiates, the extra percentage is 6-MAM, which causes a rush (and researchers find 6-MAM is possibly what makes heroin more euphoric than other opiates), while the white would only be 60%.
I find it plausible that tar is stronger than white because: a) tar is approaching or has approached the strength of white; b) it is much harder to cut (dilute) a nice chunk of tar than it is white, so while tar can be bought at almost the same strength it was processed at, powder gets cut more down the line (anyone can add a dormin or whatever cut to white, while tar is just harder to cut); and c) 6-MAM, a psychoactive compound, makes up a percentage of tar, in addition to heroin; as opposed to just heroin in white.
So speaking from experience, if you have a good tar supplier, you shouldn't worry that you are missing out on anything by not getting white. I get much more of a nod from smoking tar than I do slamming white, which might not sound right, but through my experience is true. Even when I get a rock of uncut white, it still doesn't make me even close to as high as I do off tar.
I totally thought I'd be getting more off white powder, but after a year, I am somewhat disappointed in it. I still love it and do it, heh... I just really miss my tar at this point. So people that only get tar, you are really not missing anything except the ability to snort it easily, and the fact that your veins won't get hard from shooting white. In fact, through experience, tar gives more of a high, and I definitely prefer it!
First of all you ain't getting tar that's 60%, believe me and everyone else on this board.
A gram of tar in San Francisco or Seattle is not going to be a potent as the tar in Pheonix, Texas and the border states. Tar isn't hard to cut either my man. The Mexicans are cheap and basically throw the cultivated opium into the pots and acetylate it or whatever and BOOM you have your Black Tar Heroin.
But a kilogram of Colombian powder at an average of ~95% sells for 3-5x what the kilo of tar is worth
To people that think powder is clearly superior to black tar...
I started on tar (by tar I mean big hard chunks, not that overcut brown dust with some black chunks) and got up to about 1- 1 1/2 grams a day after 2 years. I would smoke it, and very occasionally would shoot it. After I moved to Chicago, I started getting powder, and noticed it was considerably weaker, no nod unless I did a ton, mostly just euphoria and not getting sick, and that was with slamming it (I have a great white hookup, barely cuts his bags, and also will sell me a raw rock, uncut by him)...
I realized this was against conventional wisdom, since I always read powder was more pure, but I've recently (about a year ago) read that black tar is approaching the purity of street powder (I wish I could find the source). I tried to make sense of it, since even if they are the same purity I should at least feel them the same, and after I read a few articles on wikipedia, I think I've found out why I was feeling tar much more than white.
**From 'black tar heroin' on wikipedia-
-It should also be noted that the percent of the remainder of black tar heroin is often other psychoactive opiate substances, like 6-MAM & 3-MAM *in addition to* the usual adulterants and dilutents found in other forms of illicit heroin.
**From 'heroin' on wikipedia-
- In particular, users report an intense rush that occurs while the diacetylmorphine (heroin) is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain. Diacetylmorphine produces more euphoria than other opioids upon injection. One possible explanation is the presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine, a metabolite unique to diacetylmorphine. While other opioids of recreational use, such as codeine, produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho-active metabolite.
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(numbers below are not accurate, just a representation for example's sake)
The way I read this, is lets say that your black tar is 60% pure heroin. Aside from the cut, there is a large percentage of the remaining tar that is also 6-MAM due to the process of making black tar. 6-MAM causes an intense rush, and since it is in natively in black tar and not powder (all heroin metabolizes to morphine and 6-MAM, but 6-MAM is a byproduct of the process used to make black tar, so in your typical tar you not only have just pure heroin, but also 6-MAM), that could be a reason why I percieved tar to be stronger than white.
I guess an easier way to explain it would be this: I get a gram of tar and a gram of white. They are both 60% pure heroin, but since the tar also has 6-MAM in it, I would feel it more. So not only would the tar be something like 80% opiates, the extra percentage is 6-MAM, which causes a rush (and researchers find 6-MAM is possibly what makes heroin more euphoric than other opiates), while the white would only be 60%.
I find it plausible that tar is stronger than white because: a) tar is approaching or has approached the strength of white; b) it is much harder to cut (dilute) a nice chunk of tar than it is white, so while tar can be bought at almost the same strength it was processed at, powder gets cut more down the line (anyone can add a dormin or whatever cut to white, while tar is just harder to cut); and c) 6-MAM, a psychoactive compound, makes up a percentage of tar, in addition to heroin; as opposed to just heroin in white.
So speaking from experience, if you have a good tar supplier, you shouldn't worry that you are missing out on anything by not getting white. I get much more of a nod from smoking tar than I do slamming white, which might not sound right, but through my experience is true. Even when I get a rock of uncut white, it still doesn't make me even close to as high as I do off tar.
I totally thought I'd be getting more off white powder, but after a year, I am somewhat disappointed in it. I still love it and do it, heh... I just really miss my tar at this point. So people that only get tar, you are really not missing anything except the ability to snort it easily, and the fact that your veins won't get hard from shooting white. In fact, through experience, tar gives more of a high, and I definitely prefer it!
First of all you ain't getting tar that's 60%, believe me and everyone else on this board. Good powdered dope at 60% isn't bad, but getting into the 70%-80% range it doesn't compare in purity. Although this really depends on what part of the country you are getting it. A gram of tar in San Francisco or Seattle is not going to be a potent as the tar in Pheonix, Texas and the border states. Tar isn't hard to cut either my man. The Mexicans are cheap and basically throw the cultivated opium into the pots and acetylate it or whatever and BOOM you have your Black Tar Heroin. They don't refine it any further. They make more money and you West Coasters buy it up. Not saying you can't get HIGH purity Black Tar, you just need to refine it more and certain cartels get lazy. Go deep in the heart of Mexico and I am sure you can fine some banging Mexican Tar that's been refined a bit more. Mexicans go with quantity over quality as opposed to the Colombians for trafficking into the US. It's pretty fucking stupid, but it's the way it's been done for what 30-40 years now? They even had Colombian chemist come in and help the Mexican cartels refine their Mexican heroin into "Mexican White" which is pretty much like the off-white Colombian dope. But that didn't last. You gotta refine the dope till you can get it up to like ~97% purity, which the Mexicans making Black Tar don't do. They are satisfied with their shit at 50% purity. IMO, it's bad business practice for the Mexicans, if they took the little time and effort and money to refine their dope to Mexican white, the profits would be greater after the initial investment.
But it this way, a kilogram of Mexican Tar at an average of 40-55% which is GOOD tar is $XX,XXX. I don't know the exact prices. But a kilogram of Colombian powder at an average of ~95% sells for 3-5x what the kilo of tar is worth. The Colombians put in a little extra money, effort and time and get back the bigger bucks. Who's winning? Anyone who says the Mexicans got the drug trade on lock is right, but with all the violence and gang bull shit they are drawing heat and losing profits with this shit. Colombians are quietly sitting back making 3-5x as much on a kilo of dope than tar heroin, PLUS they got the cocaine trade on lock. Mexicans depend on the Colombians for the coke. Only good thing the Mexicans are good for is the Meth they make, which they probably make a shit load off of, but they practice bad drug business. Too much fighting. Didn't they learn from the Colombians and Miami in the 80's and what happened there with the drug war? It's going to happen again. It is happening again. Mexican tar sucks. End of story.
I'm pretty sure I am bud. First, it says right there in my last post that my numbers weren't accurate, and I'm not talking about all the tar or all the powder out there being the same, I just needed numbers, any numbers, for comparisons...
Here's something from the DEA though..."[from] October 1999 [to March 2000], agents have seized 41 pounds of heroin, with a street value of millions of dollars. The heroin ranged in purity from 60 to 84 percent" and "Albuquerque law enforcement personnel report that retail-level purity for both Mexican black tar and Mexican brown powdered heroin generally exceeds 70 percent."
And that was 10 years ago, I've actually read it's more around the 80% now, wish I could find that. Plus an added percentage of what isn't heroin in tar is 6-MAM, read my last post as to why that's important.
eh its hard to say that when it feels like 90% identical to powder dope once its in your veins. I have heard many people who have lived on both coasts say that they feel good tar is stronger than good powder and I think this is mostly because of all the other by products the mexicans leave in the tar. I have heard that its these extra by products which give tar that extra strong nod-iness which powder doesn't have. Like I said the general observation I have gotten from people who have done both fire powder and fire tar is that powder has a much stronger rush with a much cleaner high but doesn't last as long, while tar has a weaker rush but a heavier nod and lasts a bit longer.
eh its hard to say that when it feels like 90% identical to powder dope once its in your veins. I have heard many people who have lived on both coasts say that they feel good tar is stronger than good powder and I think this is mostly because of all the other by products the mexicans leave in the tar. I have heard that its these extra by products which give tar that extra strong nod-iness which powder doesn't have. Like I said the general observation I have gotten from people who have done both fire powder and fire tar is that powder has a much stronger rush with a much cleaner high but doesn't last as long, while tar has a weaker rush but a heavier nod and lasts a bit longer.