From: (Peter McDermott)
Subject: Re: Brown Heroin: Purity and Cutting
Date: 1995/11/03
newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard

(Ian Wardle) wrote:

>Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on testing (or at least
>guesstimating) for the purity of brown powder heroin. This kind of advice
>could definitely save lives.

Take a pinch of brown. Drop it on the foil. Warm it by tickling the
bottom of the foil with a match until it melts then let it cool.

Peel it off the foil and hold it to the light. The purer the heroin,
the more translucent the heroin. The cut will show up as impurities
in the tar-like piece.

Then you can drop it in a spoon with some acid, warm it again and
shoot it up. (Or put it back on the foil.)

Waste not, want not. OK, Waste not, want more. Whatever.

>Whilst on the subject there is some debate as to the range of 'cuts' that
>are used in adulterating brown powder heroin. Mention is made of all kinds
>of brown powders from curry powder through to chocolate and cocoa. However
>there are two very different kinds of users here in Manchester (injectors
>and smokers) and one cut for smokers is said to be violin wax as this burns
>at the same temperature and consistency as the brown heroin.

As far as I'm concerned, _no_ cuts are acceptable. Thank God for
competition in the trade. It's very rare that we see badly bashed
brown here in Liverpool. Real dealers are too committed to volume
trade and repeat business to fuck with the dope, and there are too
many well organized firms to suffer cut dope more than once.


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