[Vendor Review] [Agora] Addyshack Amphetamine paste

The product purchased was 5 grams amphetamine paste from vendor Addyshack on Agora. Addyshack was the only domestic (USA) vendor of amp. paste at the time. Price was somewhere around $100 including shipping.

Order was placed on a Monday evening, late. Order showed shipped on Tuesday. Order arrived the following Tuesday.

Stealth was good. Label printed, not hand-written. Pre-paid priority mail envelope. Addressed correctly. Stealth on the envelope was good. The product was double-wrapped in zip-lock, then in an MBB, then in the decoy product.

I didn't bother to weigh the paste when I first received it. Part of the reason is that it was so wet and sticky that it would have been hard to get it all out of the bag. The second reason is that I put a gram or so on my milligram scale to try to see how much it would dry down, and I could literally watch the solvent evaporate off as the scale got lighter and lighter, a few milligrams at a time. I have no idea if I got five grams of this stuff, and if I had left the bag open for more than a few minutes before weighing it, five grams would quickly have become less than five grams as the stuff evaporated.

I put the product under a lamp until it seemed dry, about two hours. It had a smell of sulfur. Not gross, like a rotten egg or a paper plant, but lightly sulphrous. It almost reminded me of an undertone of something coming out of the oven, like butterscotch. I'm not a chemist, but given that it's amphetamine sulfate, I'm guessing there was something extra in the mix when the base was converted to a salt, that formed a sulfur compound, and then didn't get washed out thoroughly.

I washed the powder with anhydrous acetone after drying the powder. After filtering and drying in the oven, the product was about 90% pure (about 10% weight reduction after filtering). It was probably a little better than that, because I took the product out of the oven and put it on a scale to see how much it had lost, and I could see the scale going up slowly--I assume this was the amphetamine salt absorbing moisture from the air. If it had been allowed to return to ambient moisture level, the weight reduction would have been less, but > 90% was plenty good enough for me and I didn't wait.

The sulphrous smell left with the acetone. I evaporated the acetone over night, and what was left was a yellow/brown oil/gel that had the sulphur smell. Before washing with acetone, the product burned the sinuses something fierce, even though I was 100% sure all solvent had evaporated (I left a sample on the milligram scale for 15 minutes and its weight didn't change at all). After washing, the powder was 100% clean, with no burn at all. If you get some of this stuff, I highly recommend that acetone wash. It is dead simple and the results are well worth it.

In all, I got about 1.7 grams of clean, washed powder out of the 5 grams of paste that I ordered. I estimate that I could have recovered maybe another 50 mg or so if I had rinsed the bag it came in and done other more extreme stuff to minimize losses, but it just wasn't worth it.

Quality of the product was excellent. Whether a person likes a given drug is very subjective, so I won't go into too many details, but I was looking for a cheaper Adderall replacement that allowed me to insufflate without having to snort a bunch of binder. This fit the bill amazingly. It was great for both "functional" and "recreational" doses. Highly recommended.

EDIT: If you get some of this stuff, here is how I would recommend doing an acetone wash.

  1. Get a paper filter. It can be a couple of coffee filters if you want, but proper micropore filters are better. You will lose some product through the pores of a coffee filter even though the product is not soluble in acetone. Use the flat-bottom coffee filter, not the cone style, if you can.

  2. Get some anhydrous acetone. Order it from an online chemical supply store or make your own from hardware store acetone. But seriously, just order it from an online chemical supply store.

  3. When you get the paste, spread it onto your filter. The flat-bottom filter is good because you can flatten it out and spread the paste on it. The cone filter, you can't really flatten out easily. If you have a lot of paste, spread it onto multiple filters.

  4. Set your oven on its lowest setting, like "keep warm". This should be less than 200 degrees. If your oven doesn't go that low, let the oven pre-heat for like ten or fifteen minutes, then shut it off. (This is an old bread-maker's trick for proofing dough without over-heating it.)

  5. Put the paste-covered filters onto a cookie sheet and put it into the warm oven. In about fifteen minutes, tops, the powder should be dry. You might need to chop it up a little bit depending on how thin you spread it. Don't use a razor to chop it up, because you'll cut up the filter. Use a credit card or something.

  6. Once the paste is well dry, put the filter in a bowl that is about the same size as the flat bottom of the filter. This will mean that the bowl's sides support the sides of the filter. Pour some acetone into the bowl, over the filter, making sure to wash down the sides to get any paste off the sides. Pour in enough acetone to get a good slurry going. Use a utensil to swirl the acetone around and break up any clumps of powder. Let this sit for a while (covered, so the acetone doesn't absorb moisture from the air) if you want, but I got good results after only a few minutes of swirling and stirring. Another way to do this is to put the filter into a funnel and pour the acetone over the powder. I don't like this as much because it doesn't give the acetone as much time to interact with the powder and absorb impurities.

  7. Lift up the filter carefully without spilling out any of the amphetamine powder. Let the acetone drain out as much as it will. If you are feeling bold, squeeze the filter to get more of the acetone out, but be sure not to tear open the filter. You can repeat the washing process as many times as you like to remove more impurities, but I had good results after only one wash. Remember that you will probably lose a little bit of product in each wash, so don't go crazy.

  8. After washing, dry the paste again as in step 4-5.

Once this is done, you are good to go!


Comments


[4 Points] iLoveDNM:

1.7g of dried product from 5g of paste?? That's too little, you shouldn't lose that much to drying.


[3 Points] gerundive:

I didn't bother to weigh the paste when I first received it.

Thanks for the informative posting. One tip which seems obvious, but... Weigh the paste in the bag. After removing the paste, leave the bag to dry. Scrape off any dried paste still stuck to the bag (or wash it off and dry the bag). Weigh the bag. Now you have the weight of the paste. :)


[1 Points] Solutia:

Out of curiosity , how much do you snort to get a good functional buzz ?