Vendor: PabloSantiago Classic Bait & Switch (Jan. 2 and Jan 17, 2018 batches) Vendors Markets: Dream Vendor Country: USA
Substance: Cocaine & Vendor Bait and Switch
Suspicious Effects: Yes, second order totally of lesser quality and cost more money than first order
Abnormal Color/Texture (Yes/No): Ys. Order #1 returned 100% base from baking soda method. Order #2 had a base yield of only 48% base showing inferior quality.
Suspected Adulterant: Dreggs from brick and classi bait and switch
Home Testing Done? No
Price: Order #1 7 grams $600 or $86 gram Order #2 7 grams $624 or $89 gram
Advertised purity: A+++ Colombian Fishscale for both orders
Picture: Only have order #1 picture of the good stuff, https://pli.io/Oj9ot.jpg
Comment: Order #1 was beautiful looking, and euphoric! There was powder with rocks and it did have a slight burn.
Order #2 looked like the dreggs remaining from the shake. It sucked! Plugged nose, upsets stomach w cramps, no petro smell, very little numbing, medicinal taste, all powder.
I contacted him several times demanding replacement but no response. $650 wasted by this scammer. Stay away from this vendor.
Disclaimer: Cocaine is the most difficult drug to assess when comparing its high to other batches of cocaine. What I call Fire, you may call Garbage, yet we are both right for it is a subjective opinion as to how it makes us feel. The only test result you can use to quantitatively compare batches is a GC/MS analysis of purity and detection of active cuts.
Stage one of production affects the quality of the raw cocaine paste made by farmers in the jungle mountain "pasta" labs where it varies from farmer to farmer based on the recipe that they use, and whether they make it in pozo pits with acidic solutions or metal drums using gasoline and ammonia. Or whether they piss and shit in the paste which many do as a joke on Americans.
With the 90's murder of Escobar, the cartel's power and the manufacturing process declined. The farmer's raw pasta of 30% to 80% cocaine undergoes the second stage in processing being refined in "base" labs run by thousands of clandestine mom and pop labs rather than Escobar's large centralized labs. The third stage occurs in the larger and "crystal" labs for crystallization into cocaine hydrochloride. These labs are more sophisticated and tend to be somewhat centralized. All use recipes with minor variations and no organized national overseeing of quality control exists. The shoddy processes they use guarantees that the contaminating cocaine alkaloid impurities remain. The alkaloids are too similar to the cocaine alkaloid and can only be extracted with very expensive scientific equipment. For this reason, base received by these labs needs to have a high percentage of cocaine or it is rejected.
Six key chemicals are involved in the processing of cocaine: sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate, sodium carbonate, kerosene, acetone and hydrochloric acid. The DEA imposed choke chemical importation limits on two key chemicals for purification: acetone and magnesium permanganate or it's substitute sodium permanganate. The kerosene or gas used to dissolve the leaves would normally be washed out with these two chemicals. The best non pharma process today is lucky to achieve 92% purity. DNM that advertise 96% pure are lying.
Besides the declining quality of cocaine, there are a slew of other factors affecting the high. I may like this batch from Vendor X but two days later, I like Vendor Z's better. WTF? Cocaine's effect is dependent on your internal psych state, your external psych state, with or without alcohol, % active cuts, homogenization quality, batch variation, time of day, position of the sun, moon and stars and then the subjectivity aspect, i.e. personal preference for speedy vs mellow, introvert vs extrovert high, gas smell vs no smell, powder vs rock etc..
Coke should be dry, not moist or rock hard and crunchy. It should feel slightly oily, flaky, and a little squishy. Color is off white to pure white. Pure cocaine is a salt crystal not a talcum powder.
Having a gasoline/petrol smell does not equal potency or quality. It means the coke wasn't washed. Yellow color does not equal quality. It means they used muriatic acid instead of hydrochloric acid for crystallization step. Rocks do not equal quality. Most rocks are artificially made, i.e., rerock created with pill presses, lidocaine, phenacetin, caffeine, glucose etc. and a fake cartel stamp. Rocks often contain more cut. Naturally occurring rocks happen by moisture bonding. Throat Drip does not equal quality. Drip is caused by cuts.
Levamisole is added by processors in Colombia, not Mexico. It looks just like coke, shinier and much heavier, adding potentially illness producing weight to the brick to increase profit at the expense of our health. And yet, we continue to pay good money for bad cocaine even though we know they stepped all over it and added harmful chemicals to it.
Such is the siren's call. "She's alright, she's alright, Cocaine."
I dont know if asking this is sourcing but are you really paying that much for shit coke in NA?