Know your drug: How to identify an unknown substance

[Madre]

Imagine you get some unknown powder. It doesn't matter how you got it: a friend gave it to you to try, you stole it from the pocket of an unconscious street junkie, or you accidentally found it in a taxi. It doesn't matter how you got it, what matters is that you have the drug in your hand and you probably really want to use it.
Is it stupid? Maybe. But it is not so easy to force myself not to use the obscure powder...

And then the question becomes: What is the powder in my hand?
Is it Amphetamine or DOB? Could it be Mephedrone or Fentanyl?
A greedy, foolish junkie will say «fuck it, let's try this shit and will see».

Except that this is not something you should try on yourself while waiting to get high. The result can be dramatically the opposite, and instead of getting pleasure, you will only get frustration, disappointment, and maybe even death with foam coming out of your mouth. It’s enough just to use the substance, the dosage of which is tens or even hundreds of times lower than the dosage of amphetamine and cocaine. If you habitually pour yourself a track to try (a small track, less than usual - you're not stupid), you can overdose so hard and so fast that your buddies don't even have time to think about what to do.

That's why this section discusses ways to identify different substances. It could save your life.
Share your stories about obscure substances and the consequences of using them.

 

[bad_coco_melon]

One simple answer would be pour it down the drain or give it to a homeless man to try it but we come forth with the greatest answer of all time:

1. Dont be a junkie! and observe!! What characteristics does it have? Does it look like a drug youve done before? If yes cool shit bruh its that drug (likely).
2. Another way is to ask around, maybe? Do your friends know anyone who sells said stuff you just found? Find out.
3. Lets say you find some blotters, we can assume that they are LSD blotters but we cannot be sure and so lets test them. Wait a week until your one time use test arrives. Sometimes 25I-NBOMe is sold as LSD in blotter form and this is kinda the reason you wanna test whatever blotters. (25I-NBOMe is kinda a danger hallucinogen, can cause actual death bruh).
4. The final test is simple but more or less its not a test and it goes like this: TURN IT IN BOZO.

Let us explain number 4 a bit better. OutLaw says as an argument of his something along the lines, what if you take this mystery drug and you take an amount above the lethal dose? You would be dead of course, are you willing to risk it?

(We suggest to stick you weed and not pick up any random bags with weird mystery drugs off the street but yall do whatever <3)

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

Marquis reagent is about $20 for 15 ml or make it yourself. It can tell you a lot. 300 tests in that bottle. Visual comparison via the internet can get you somewhere. A melting point test is another component, there are instructions in the analytical chemistry forum. Seeing what it dissolves in or not is a useful test sometimes

 

[T0lek511]

You can very easy make Marquis reagent. Only you must combine formaldehyde with H2SO4. And you dont have to buy it

 

[Mr Gonzo]

Drug pee test dip sticks, they are dirt cheap, and you can buy tests that discriminate almost all common drugs and last far longer than reagent kits which are also expensive as shit for use, once in the blue moon you pick up random bags of powder. Granted making your own reagents is cheaper and reduces losses on the costs of marketed reagent kits sold online, but this does require owning the chemicals to make a reagent not something everyone has access to.

But my thought on the actual question on what I would do on finding a random druggie bag full of an unknown powder, flush it down the toilet or put it in the garbage and get rid of that shit. You might not even have a bag of drugs, but some random shit not worth wasting your time over, a baggie with some persons Nan's ashes in it ?