worried about laced drugs?

[mochafrap]

I'm from a city wherein drugs are a pretty big problem, and I'm sure many have heard about the dangers of even tiny, tiny amounts of fentanyl, so cross-contamination is often in the back of my mind when it comes to psychadelic exploration. I bet there are some people on the forum who don't think about this, so hopefully they will see this post. Is there a pretty doable / feasible-for-average-person way to tell whether something (e.g. 5meo or even mushrooms) is laced or cut with something else undesired?

[ZZZZ]

I am not the expert here, but I will give you some limited information to start:

You can purchase a drug testing kit that is used by police officers in the field to verify a type of drug or determine whether it is contaminated with another. I believe they are fairly inexpensive and accessible (~$30 on Amazon? Idk, I'm working on memory). People use them at music festivals and such. Maybe someone else can elaborate.

 

And generally speaking, salts and crystals tend to be more pure and harder to fake/contaminate than crushed powers, pressed pills, blotters, etc. Your safest bets would probably be natural products such as mushrooms, which would then be highly dependent on identification. 

[outlandish]

I've never heard of 5-MeO-DMT being contaminated with fentanyl. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen though, so it's a good idea to get your drugs tested, if only for your own peace of mind. 

The first thing I'd do though is *not* buy 5-MeO-DMT off a dealer in person. I've actually never heard of a dealer selling 5-MeO-DMT, so if someone said they had it, I'd be immediately suspicious. It's better to buy it off the web if possible because there is more accountability with web vendors. You have the advantage of researching if a vendor is reliable, and you'd be more likely to hear about it if a contaminated batch was discovered.

You could buy a fentanyl test kit, and do the test yourself. You'll find resources on the web for this, I don't have any specific kits to recommend, but a quick google search reveals some options.

There are also services that allow you to mail in samples like Energy Control in the EU.

[Girzo]

Contamination happens sometimes, but it's very rare.

I know a story of a Polish vendor who was selling 5-MeO-MALT contaminated with an NBOMe. Both are psychedelics, but one is dosed in 10-40mg range and the other up to 1.2mg. The first has a duration of a few hours and the other can last for days. So you can imagine how scary combinatiom it was or even deadly in some cases. Some people got hospitialized.

How could they have protected themselves? By choosing the safest ROA for this compound, that is oral. The only victims were those who choose snorting. Why? NBOMes are inactive orally, but work very well by snorting.

How to avoid falling a victim to such mistakes in the future? Look at vendor's reputation, the one that made this mistake had it mixed, ranging from terrible to OK. So don't buy from questionable sellers. Also look at other items in their inventory, if they sell both fentanyl and psychedelics, I would question their integrity and doubt that they have the best intentions for the buyer in mind. Also be cautious around psychedelics vendors who sell exotic substances like 25C-NBOMe or 5-MeO-pyr-T, as you don't want to get those compounds by a mistake, so use your test kit.