SUBSTANCE
Harm reduction reading on psychoactive substances: what they are, how they act, and how to check a sample before using it.
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Harm reduction reading on psychoactive substances: what they are, how they act, and how to check a sample before using it.
Which cannabis test kit is the best? The best cannabis test kit is two tests. One tells you which cannabinoid the material is built on. The other tells…
Identify first, then measure. How cocaine test ampoules, screw-cap vials and TLC testing cards compare, and which false positives each one hides.
7-OH: the kratom that comes in a tablet The leaf people brew and the tablets sold as 7-OH all are often referred to as kratom, but there is…
What is in your vape? A vape sold as THC often contains a synthetic cannabinoid instead, which is a different drug with a much narrower margin between a…
What is in fake Xanax? Designer benzodiazepines are benzodiazepines that were never licensed as medicines. They are pressed into tablets that copy pharmaceutical ones, sold under the pharmaceutical…
Semi-synthetic cannabinoids made from hemp CBD. A reagent confirms a cannabinoid and cannot say which one, so separating them needs a testing card.
Amphetamine runs 14% to 89% through the middle half of lab samples; methamphetamine 90% to 98%. That makes identity testing more important, not less.
187 lab-tested samples. Most fakes are CBD flower or extract with a synthetic sprayed on, and the 4-AP reagent tells you whether a real cannabinoid is there at all.
571 lab-tested samples. Zimmermann tells you a benzo is present and never which one, and that is the whole problem.
Rare in lab samples and lethal at doses that would be harmless as LSD. Two reagents settle it in fifteen minutes.
