GUIDES
Step-by-step guides to checking what is actually in a sample. Which reagent suits which substance, how to read a color change, and where reagents stop and purity testing begins.
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Step-by-step guides to checking what is actually in a sample. Which reagent suits which substance, how to read a color change, and where reagents stop and purity testing begins.
When a sample has more than one ingredient, a reagent mostly shows you the strongest reaction. Here is how to work around that and find the stimulant.
Synthetic cannabinoids, such as MDMB-4en-PINACA, are compounds designed to mimic the effects of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis.
Analysing mushrooms is confusing. Fungi contain hundreds of chemicals, some of which cause false positive results for psilocybin, the main active psychedelic ingredient.
How to detect cuts: if you intend to use a synthetic psychoactive substance, first you need to check it using a test kit. Most popular drug testing kits are colorimetric reagents, simple spot-tests which produce different color reactions with different compounds. It’s the same kind of tests as used by police. To detect fentanyl or it’s analogues it’s recommended to use fentanyl test strips.
How to test drugs: if you intend to use a synthetic psychoactive substance, first you need to check it using a test kit. Most popular drug testing kits are colorimetric reagents, simple spot-tests which produce different color reactions with different compounds. It’s the same kind of tests as used by police. To detect fentanyl or it’s analogues it’s recommended to use fentanyl test strips.
How to test THC / CBD (cannabinoids): reduce risk by using a cannabis test kit to check it for adulterants. Cannabis products come in all kinds of forms and can’t be reliably identified by appearence. To test THC and CBD use the reagent tests Cannabis in single-use or multiple-use test kit. Reagent tests are simple chemicals that indicate presence of a substance by reacting with different color change to different substances. To test you need just 1 drop of a reagent and a small sample, about this big -> ●. To detect all ingredients and estimate potency it’s required to use the additional Cannabinoid test kit. To detect fentanyl or test for fentanyl analogs use the fentanyl test strips.
How to test fentanyl: if you intend to use an opioid, first you need to check it using a test kit to rule out presence of dangerous adulterants such as fentanyl. Fentanyl can be even 100 times more potent than morphine and therefore is easy to accidentaly overdose on. Fentanyl can be mixed in any kind of sample and can’t be identified by appearance. To detect fentanyl or analogs it’s recommended to use fentanyl test strips.
How to test MDA: if you intend to use MDA, first you need an MDA test kit to check it for adulterants. Pure MDA or Sally can look white, brown or tan and can’t be identified by appearence. To test MDA use reagent tests Marquis, Mecke, Simon’s and Robadope in single-use or multiple-use test kits. To detect fentanyl or test for fentanyl analogs it’s recommended to use fentanyl test strips.
2C-B is brown or tan and easily imitated. Here is how to check a sample with reagents, and how to rule out the far more dangerous NBOMe series.
