psood0nym
Bluelighter
I have had freebase that smelled and freebase that didn't, and they both worked great. I recall reading a post of fastandbulbous' that said the smell is due to an impurity but even an extremely small amount of impurity can cause the smell.
[The following rant is not directed at you Solipsis, your post regarding the vendor's claim just reminded me of a few things...]
I also recall a post by morninggloryseed about the "pink DPT" that made the rounds before web tryp that so many were sure was impure and "not as spiritual" as white DPT or whatever. He said it tested at over 98 percent purity. It seems that extremely small amounts of impurity can drastically affect color. Unless impurities just happen to be active at extremely low doses (like may be possible in LSD synthesis), an impure product is unlikely to affect the quality of a trip so long as the dosage is adjusted. Maybe some impurities like that exist in tryptamine synthesis, I don't know, but I imagine a lot of bad mouthing about colored or smelly products in terms of the experience they give is nonsensical power of suggestion at work.
Then there was a post I came across by f&b explaining that the dreaded dark amber JWH-018 could be that way simply due to the way the end product crystallized. It can apparently be anywhere from white, to yellow, to dark amber independent of purity--a claim further born out but that early product's being just as potent as claimed in the literature. We all want to be able to know what were ingesting based on salient features because it's more comfortable to imagine we can. It's nice to think we have some predictable control over the experience based on obvious signs. But in the "RC" world where products are typically not cut, probably more often than not our imagination is getting the best of us and resulting in degraded experiences because we're sure impure substance equals impure experience and that impurities can be detected without proper analysis.
Many judge mushrooms and cacti and psychotria viridis as superior to their main active, but synthesized, constituent--4-ho-DMT, mescaline, and MAO inhibited synthed DMT. That's fine--I don't accuse them of lying--yet all of these species are rife with other chemicals which, if they showed up in a synthetic, would doubtlessly be deemed by many of these same people as dirty impurities of a botched synthesis. It's a bizarre coincidence that those chemicals that have a high yielding natural source are so often experientially preferred mixed with the other chemicals in the natural source but an impure synthetic is often thought to cause a tainted experience. It's like nature can do no wrong by us self-medicating humans. I'm not saying eat poorly synthesized psychedelics--there may be impurities with a "double-blind" psychoactive influence in some cases (though I doubt in the preponderance). I just mean to raise suspicions about what is influencing our judgment regarding what parts of the experience are intrinsic to purity when we've all had far ranging experiences with the same batch of a psychedelic at the same dose.
I apologize if I'm misquoting anyone here.
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