[PSA/Article] If You Are Going to Wash/Purify Your Purchase

Please have some idea what it is you are doing and convey it clearly in your post. This was inspired by two fairly recent posts which call into question two well-known vendors.

http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2y2kko/psaarticle_recrystalized_stealthbombers_mdma/

http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2zbfe2/canadianforger_brown_sugar_acetone_wash/

"Washed 1g with cold anhydrous acetone, got .65, bummer man" is not helpful to anyone and leaves out all sorts of information about the experience of the OP, specific technique, properties of the original versus resultant product (melting point, appearance, reagant test, etc), and why the procedure was even done to begin with. How was the acetone rendered anhydrous? What was the filtering process like?

Performing a purification tek you found online does not mean that all your lost yield was cut, nor does it mean that all the remaining product is pure. Unless you have a compelling reason to perform such steps, you're just wasting time and money and risking losing product.


Comments


[6 Points] entactoBob:

Let me toss a little knowledge into the bin here:

That said, I believe there is plenty of reason to learn to do a basic anhydrous acetone rinse at the very least, if not learning to recrystallize MDMA from IPA and/or acetone.

Some more shots of MDMA from The Erowid's Rhodium archive:

See what I'm saying?


[2 Points] None:

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[1 Points] EDibst:

Amateurs like to feel like they're chemists and wasting their product in the process apparently. It's not like customers are going to complain "oh this isn't very acetone-washed sneer" lol, since we all know people buying SB's stuff are distributors/drug dealers. Majority of people don't know where to get pure MDMA to begin with, so they're generally pretty grateful to get anything close to the purity/quality of directly Netherlands-synthesized product that gets them blasted and are happy to pay $80-100/g


[1 Points] Sl4ph4ppy:

If you're going to (mis)quote me hows about a head's up next time? Thanks friend! I did not spell it out but the reason I did an acetone wash is obvious to anyone that has seen pure mdma and CanadianForger's "brown sugar" - the appearance, smell and oily texture are indicative of safrole, not "dankness" or maple cookies or whatever you were thinking.

My post was meant as simple observation and not an attempted slight to a favored vendor. Recommend sending CanadianForger a screenshot of this thread though. Now that you successfully defended a vendor's honor the only thing left to do is sit back and profit, maybe wolf down a few more dank maple cookies while you're waiting (takes the edge off). So dank.