I posted this in /r/opiates, so hopefully crossposting it here is ok (I see nothing against it in the rules). This is all very much market-related (just assume any time I say "source" I mean "vendor").
If this is all tldr, feel free to skip down to my questions at the bottom. But I do think the rest of the text provides some decent background for those questions...
So I've been getting BT heroin for a while now and almost always, the good quality stuff is a rock when room-temp or cold, but starts getting gooey when you warm it up a bit. Sure it varies a bit, but generally speaking, that's how I've usually identified decent BTH and it hasn't steered me wrong.
I recently got some BTH from a new source and it was very... pastey and crumbly, no rock, no goo. More like a crumbly kind of clay than the rock/goo I was used to. The taste was harsh, it did have a TINY bit of that vinegary smell to it, but not much, and the taste was unique compared to what I am used to, kind of harsh and bitter, but not so bad it wasn't smokeable.
I could NOT catch a buzz off it no matter how much I smoked. Seemed to keep me well (my tolerance is low but I still hurt when I don't get a little something), but as far as getting high, nada. Maybe it would be perfect for someone trying to quit or just wanting maintenance.
Anyway, a month later, from yet another source I got the SAME stuff. Same crumbly texture, same shitty taste. I trust this source for the most part and said he had nothing to do with the other guy I got the same stuff from before. This source also doesn't use and can't tell good from bad quality. I don't want to go into any detail but he said he watched a guy in Mexico break it off a football sized brick, told him it was good shit, and the source swears he didn't cut it with anything. To complicate matters, other people who have used this crumbly stuff say it's great (according to my source). I suspect these people are first time H users who don't know shit. For the record, I only smoke, and I have a generally low tolerance, I'm usually pretty good about keeping it in check.
So my questions...
Is there some shit "tar" going around Mexico right now that isn't like REAL tar (that is, rocky/gooey but instead crumbly/clay-like)?
If you do know of this, is there anything you can say regarding how it's made differently?
Is it truly shit, or is it actually good and theres just something weird about me, I'm a mutant so that I can't get off on it for the life of me?
Is it actually a common form of BTH that for some reason I never came across until recently?
does anyone have any experience with what I'm talking about? (Or have a friend who has experience, of course) and feel like sharing? (No, I am NOT interested in a source, just if you have had this same shit and what you thought of it).
some of my source's customers who said it was good also smoke, but is it possible that it's in some form that makes it a shitty smoke but is still great for IVers? Is that possible (with Tar, I mean, not getting into #3 or #4)
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