How do you figure that S+ would be the prevalent one out of interest? From my understanding, S+ is very rare on the black market, except where it's been diverted in small quantities. It's an extra (and apparently quite tricky) step to separate the enantiomers and the wastage (of the R-) would be monumental. I can't figure out why a distributor (even a manufacturer using a semi-legit lab) would waste time & LOTS of money doing that. Please, if you know something I don't, I'd happily be corrected.
Hmm, it is a situation which is highly contested, confused and misunderstood, and I'll be happy to admit that like most, I'm not 100% certain about which way around the isomer stiation is. I can only offer the way in which I arrived at my best attempt at a logical conclusion.
1. The pre-drought/india ketamine was noticeably different to the stuff which cropped up from China and has been about ever since. The best way I can describe it is that one type of ketamine causes me to have CEV's, and the other type doesn't. You still hole, it's just the hole is too heavy and anaesthetising and causes a lot of amnesia. I had never experienced this kind of ketamine at street level before the chinese stuff appeared some months after the ban, following a drought.
2. To my knowledge, most branded ketamine is racemic, and the india ketamine which was widely available before the ban, was racemic. This would indicate that the chinese lab ketamine which came after, which I think most people agreed is/was noticeably different, is S+ ketamine. The only easy explanation to the contrary would be the reverse, which would mean that the India ketamine was generally S+.
3. Chinese 'lab' ketamine did exist before the ketamine ban, via the internet, and I personally experienced it back in summer 2007. Quite a few of us had this stuff at the glade bluelight camp of that year and it was known and bought as stereo isomer ketamine. This was the first that I had heard of it, and it was considered an (expensive), novel rarity. I can remember that a prominent bluelighter with exquisite knowledge of chemistry was very into this stuff, and used to proclaim it as superior to the widely available racemic variety.
4. Most of the DW vendors are specifically listing their ketamine as S+ ketamine... and this is just the same ketamine that is commonly turning up on the street. I've only noticed a single instance of racemic being sold, which indicates that this stuff is less common. I have sampled both kinds, and they quite distinctly supported the idea that pre ban/pharm sourced/indian = racemic, and post ban/chinese/clandestine = stereo isomer.
I can only imagine that the chinese labs may find the S+ a preferable product to sell; after all, it is very strong, and a lot of people do actually prefer it. I'd imagine that making S+ might not be so problematic for these established labs which are moving a lot of product. There are certainly indications that the chinese labs do make different isomers of various products; take for example the different batchs of RC's with widely reported/accepted, noticeably different effects (Tan MDPV etc etc), and further more, there was certainly chinese S+ ketamine being sold as S+ ketamine as recently as 2007.
Please, if you know something I don't, I'd happily be corrected.
Same goes, I've been looking for a solid answer to this for years. Any evidence/speculation to the contrary is certainly welcomed.
