Vendor: EZRider Jan. 17, 2018 batch
Vendors Markets: Dream Vendor Country: USA
Substance: Cocaine
Suspicious Effects: strong numbing of gums
Abnormal Color/Texture (Yes/No): cocaine base yield was 93% via baking soda method
Suspected Adulterant: lidocaine
Home Testing Done? no
Price: 3.5 grams for $317 or $91 gram
Advertised purity: Cocaine Butter
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Comment: again, early purchase where i wasn't doing detailed analysis only looking on quest for euphoria. And I just had to try cocaine butter as it sounded so intriguing. Alcohol smell, strong numbing of gums, medicinal taste, plugs nose, burned, no euphoria, standard DNM mediocre gear
A Little Knowledge and a 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 in production affects the quality of the raw cocaine paste made by farmers in the jungle mountain "pasta" labs. Paste purity content 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. These labs take the paste and turn it into cocaine base. The final and most important stage occurs in the larger "crystal" labs where the base undergoes 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 cocaine 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 points with 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's 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. 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 human 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."
Real talk..if you are a consumer and you want the best coke for your own consumption..the smartest thing to do is form a dialog/relationship with the right dnm vendor, sample the product by buying small amounts and then if you find something you really like then buy as much as you can from the same batch of product.
Just remember, If your sitting on a couple OZ's of some super premium coke and then take time to reflect on that when you are at the bar at 2am trying to move the little urinal deoderizer over with your piss stream like a boss then that is pretty much the closest you are ever going to come to feeling like a rock star.