I bought cocaine, heroin, crack, weed, and ecstasy and had them forensically analyzed by a chemist at MIT because I thought they would all turn out to be poison. Guess what? Drug dealers don’t cut drugs with cement and ground glass. They barely even cut drugs at all, because they don’t need to. Relax, I’ll explain later.

The samples were analyzed by a PhD chemist at MIT (we can’t say his name or he’ll get fired) using acid/base extraction, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, and thin-layer chromatography. Acid-base extraction is the method used to isolate the chemicals. Once they’re isolated, the nuclear magnetic resonance machine is what you use to analyze and identify stuff. Basically, the kind of NMR done here tells you about the hydrogen atoms in the molecules in the drugs. So it’s like, the spectrum of heroin has 20 lines in it, all at different positions and heights, and you basically look for that particular set of lines. If you see another set of lines, you go, “Oops, there’s something else besides heroin in here.” Finally, thin-layer chromatography is a quick method that tells you how many components there are in a mixture. MIT guy says it’s “like that experiment you did when you were a kid (if you were a geek) where you put ink on a paper towel and, when the water diffused up the paper towel, all the colors separated.” It tells you how many components are in a mixture but not what they are. That’s what the NMR is for. Still confused? Show this to a smart guy and have him explain it more.

COCAINE
The cocaine was the first sample to come back from the lab. It was 98 percent pure. When everyone was done high-fiving, we started to wonder what was going on. According to the movies and NYPD Blue, you can only get cocaine like that from pharmacies. Street cocaine is basically poison, right? It’s all strychnine and gasoline and nail polish remover or something.

I was not going to go buy 50 more samples of coke, because that would be a waste of money and drugs, but there’s this guy named Peter Cohen who did his thesis on just that. Actually, his work is even better than that, because he not only analyzed 50 samples of cocaine, he also interviewed the 50 cokeheads who had bought the samples. So he got the perception and the reality, see. He asked the cokeheads whether they thought their coke was pure, and 80 percent of them said no. Of those, 75 percent thought their stuff was adulterated with speed. They also commonly figured their drugs were diluted with ground glass, Drano, laxatives, and dirt. Cohen took samples from these cokeheads to the lab. The average purity was 65.1 percent. Second of all, the coke samples Cohen had were cut with speed, Daro, vitamin C, caffeine, sugar, nicotinamide, lidocaine, mannitol, and sodium bicarbonate. Daro is an anti-headache powder. Nicotinamide is vitamin B. Lidocaine is a topical anaesthetic. Mannitol is the sugar they put in diabetic candy. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda. These are all innocuous things that bulk the drug out— most evidence of dangerous cutting agents is anecdotal. There’s no glass in your coke, you fucking psycho.

I guess that doesn’t mean that drugs are never cut with poison. The Drug Prevention Network of the Americas reports on a gang in Dublin that cuts coke with Phenacetin, a carcinogen that causes cancerous tumors in urinary tracts and nasal passages. Of male rats. There are a hundred million stories like that, and they get picked up eagerly by anti-drug sites, druggies, and editors who want sensational copy because that is the world we live in.

Findings: Most coke is way over 60 percent pure, and our coke is especially good. Thank you, Rico.

HEROIN
Our sample was 60 percent heroin, 20 percent acetaminophen, 10 percent caffeine, and 10 percent unidentifiable chemicals. Even though that sounds like a lot of additives, it’s about right. New York heroin is 63.3 percent pure on average. Oh, forget the whole idea about heroin being cut with Drano. Heroin is most often cut with acetaminophen, caffeine, malitol, diazepam, methaqualone, or phenobarbital. Diazepam is a sedative hypnotic. Methaqualone is Quaaludes. Phenobarbital is a sedative used to stop seizures and treat insomnia. See, they just cut it with stuff that makes you sleepy but doesn’t cost as much or cause as much hassle to get as dope. That’s all. If you want some better shit, move to that shithole London. Ross Coomber of the University of Greenwich, London, analyzed 228 samples of heroin and found that 44 percent of them weren’t cut with anything at all. The rest were cut with the same stuff as above. Coomber did another study where he gathered information from 17 heroin dealers at varying points in the chain of distribution. He asked them if they adulterated (that is the word for adding other drugs to) or diluted (that is the word for adding inert substances to) the drugs they sold. Eleven said that they never adulterated/diluted at all, four adulterated/diluted only sometimes, and only one (dealing four to five ounces a month) said he always diluted the heroin (with glucose, by around 10 to 20 percent). Asshole.

Findings: Heroin is a little more cut than coke, but ours is average. And dealers don’t want to poison their customers. It’s bad business, and if you’re dead you can’t buy any more smack from them. The most important finding to us in this section was this great new dealer who got us a bundle of smack, delivered to our door in 20 minutes in the middle of the workday. Too bad we’re in recovery.

CRACK
Our crack, purchased from some human garbage in Bushwick, was about 95 percent pure, and the impurities were likely by-products of the synthesis, not contaminants. That means they weren’t added after the crack became crack. Rather, they were a part of how the crack came to be. Crack is actually one of the purest drugs you can buy, usually about 85 to 95 percent, because it gets washed with solvent before or after heating. Just because of the way it’s made (by “freebasing” it—or removing the active chemicals from cocaine from their base), you can get high-purity crack from only moderately pure coke.

Findings: Crack is a good bet. If you think your coke guy is stomping on your shit at all, cook it up and you’ll take out all the dirt.

WEED
So according to an article published in the New York Times in April 2004, “Law enforcement officials said they are also seeing more examples of marijuana laced with other drugs, like cocaine, a narcotic; LSD, a hallucinogen; and PCP, a hallucinogen also known as angel dust.” Our sample didn’t have coke or heroin or PCP or anything in it. It was just normal. Sucks.

Now read that New York Times quote again. “Law enforcement officials”? I like cops and I trust them to protect me from getting raped. Journalists are liars though. Why would police give quotes about drugs and not give their names? Is this a top-secret thing that the “law enforcement officials” are afraid to go on record about? Seriously, there are a million alarmist accounts of PCP-dipped weed being sold as regular weed (just google it), but not one systematic analysis to back up the claim. Just look at the slang terms for weed laced with other drugs and the whole thing starts to seem like a priest dreamed it up: “Boat, Loveboat, Chips, Donk, Lovelies, Love Leaf, Woolies, Zoom, Boat, Caviar, Champagne, Cocoa Puff, Gremmies.” What? Reporters are pussies that barely know what drugs are so if they talk about the pervasiveness of embalming-fluid-dipped pot you’re not going to ever find any evidence of them actually finding some. Hence quotes like, “Finding embalming fluid to buy on the street is not easy because most street drug dealers make more money selling individual joints soaked with embalming fluid for about $10 to $20. However, if found on the street to purchase, a two-ounce sample of embalming fluid costs about $50.” Oh really?

Findings: PCP-soaked marijuana that is sold as PCP-soaked marijuana doesn’t actually have PCP in it most of the time. There is no evidence at all I can find that marijuana sold as marijuana is soaked in PCP. However, if you want to deck your weed out, sprinkle some coke on it. It’s called a snowcap and it gets you laced.

ECSTASY
Our sample was pure MDMA. Once again, that’s because we have good dealers. We all know that E is often cut with dope, because we’ve all seen those little brown freckles in pills that we’ve taken. That’s heroin, stupid. So while E can be dirty, it is not as dirty as a 1993 Time Out magazine article, “Bitter Pills,” made it out to be. In that article, it was reported that E dealers spike tablets and capsules with heroin, LSD, rat poison, and crushed glass. That story was repeated all over. Stephen Beard of the Newham Drugs Advice Project was the source for all this, and he said he got his info from a single dealer. This single supposed dealer said he made fake ecstasy by crushing light bulbs. The word for that is “hearsay.” There was no supporting evidence such as lab tests or reports from doctors who had treated users. Oh, but again, it does happen that there is poison. In London, in 2000, there was an unmarked, half-scored, yellow-flecked tablet that was 8 mg of strychnine. The lethal dose of strychnine is 10 mg.

The verdict: It’s not hard to get good shit. Drug dealers figure, I can sit here trying to figure out how to dilute this shit or I can get it on the street and paid for as soon as possible. If my shit is too pure—great. All that means is I’ll have a reputation as Bobby PurePants and more people will want to buy from me.

ANN HIGGINS
Additional reporting by Gideon Yago

COMMENTS

Anonymous, on Jul 21, 2008 wrote: bitches =]

Anonymous, on Jul 10, 2008 wrote: okay, I just read the first comment and I don’t know if someone else has said anything and I don’t feel like reading to find out. But X is made from either Heroin or Meth...that is the e’s base. dumbshit.

Date: May 12 2008 05:57:11 AM Author: EJ "if vice tries to tell me there is heroin in ecstasy one more time ever in my life i'll throw up. "that's what the brown specks are." jesus christ." For real, ecstasy won't contain heroin because heroin is more expensive. Date: Apr 30 2008 11:32:20 PM Author: hell yeah i got some e laced with heroin one time. i bought it that way though. it was bomb! Date: Apr 30 2008 10:00:42 PM Author: DON'T THINK though that I'm saying you should do acid. It's bad for your brain and turns you into a permanent knucklehead if you do a lot of it, pure or not. Date: Apr 30 2008 09:55:09 PM Author: NO POINT in cutting acid. I'm not too into drugs but the math is simple: acid is completely a chemical thing, which is expensive on the street but not so incredibly expensive to make if you are a talented chemist with the right tools. and people usually buy it not by volume in terms of fluid ounces, but as ready-made hits. People aren't judging how much they got for what price, which would make cutting it worth the trouble. A hit is a hit, and they judge it by how it felt. That shouldn't usualy require other drugs--in fact, they probably would make the product less appealing on average just based on the experience had (coke and acid, for example, is a bad bad combo for most) On the other hand from cutting it to enhance, cutting it to economize would also probably be self-defeating, generally. Other drugs are almost certainly more expensive than the ingredients for more acid. And cutting it with other things would just weaken the hits, which will be noticed by many customers. If you're brewing acid, you're doing it in bulk, and almost certainly repeatedly--why would you want to alienate all your customers, and probably your larger buyers who deal it out in smaller quantities? I would think acid is the least likely drug to be cut with anything else intentionally. But possibly it could be brewed ineptly by an amateur who doesn't make too good a batch due simply to inexperience and lack of skill. Date: Apr 30 2008 07:10:11 PM Author: TT HB if vice tries to tell me there is heroin in ecstasy one more time ever in my life i'll throw up. "that's what the brown specks are." jesus christ. and people, stop doing coke with your E. it makes the E not work very much. i swear, i should be writing all of vice's drug articles. Date: Apr 30 2008 10:59:44 AM Author: ello yummm....E. i think i liked that a little too much. i had to stop when i started crusshing it and mixing it with coke. it burns....just a little Date: Apr 29 2008 05:24:35 PM Author: sometimes Out in hipster and scum infected New York, there might not be any dusted weed, but due to the number of drugged-out fuckos selling anything they can get their dirty paws on out here in the midwest (more specifically, Michigan/Ohio), it happens from time to time. It happened to me once when I was chilling with some shady Puerto Ricans. After the junt was finished, I turned around and looked at a carved pumpkin that was resting on the porch we were smoking on. It then turned its head, looked at me, and laughed. This was only the beginning. The trip lasted for a long-ass time, and I kind of felt like I was stuck in that dumb pigeon coop scene from the movie Friday. There are also dudes I know in Ohio who cap their ciggies with dust, so watch out when a sketchy motherfo offers you a Kool next time when you're out of cigs. Date: Apr 28 2008 05:17:17 PM Author: tony Beyond the simple typo, Amanda's comment says a lot about what's fundamentally wrong with journalism today. Re-read that last sentence--"You need to do more research to seem legit." See, it's not about actually being legit or, Christ, even accurate, it's all about keeping up the semblance of legitimacy and professionalism. That's the whole basis of the asinine set of "ethics" they teach you at j-school (don't pay for an interview subject's lunch cause it's a conflict of interest, etc. etc., always present an opposing view even if it's monumentally wrong/unfounded)--none of them help guide you to writing the most truthful account of whatever your subject may be, they're solely there to protect you and your publication's reputation from attacks by your competitors. Date: Apr 28 2008 04:54:11 PM Author: wow "and know how to not make statement that have no evidence" good writing there, Amanda, really driving home the power of "real journalism" over these pretenders. Date: Apr 15 2008 10:43:57 PM Author: Eric I'm gonna be an echo here, but there's no heroin in ecstasy. None. That's a total myth. Date: Apr 15 2008 12:46:19 AM Author: k why would you lace weed with coke?...that's just a waste of coke (unless you do it on purpose) Date: Apr 13 2008 10:42:25 PM Author: Amanda pretty generalized statement about journalists. im a journalist and i know that a lot of us know more about drugs than you think, and know how to not make statement that have no evidence. stupid study man, bad writing...you need to do more research to seem legit. Date: Apr 10 2008 03:05:17 PM Author: odBall you rule Date: Apr 09 2008 02:59:50 PM Author: dafydd In America there are many worse shitholes than London Date: Apr 02 2008 09:49:17 PM Author: DJozro You are a fucking retard there is never heroin in Rolls. Idiot. Do some research. That would be ineffective. Date: Apr 01 2008 09:30:21 PM Author: bryan what about acid?? too hard to find?? 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It was first done in the late 70's with Dangerous chemicals and very few people knew how? I use to have someone comeover and base a few Grams and then re weigh it just to see how pure the Coke Powder was then. Next the Stuff Or HAroin I don't care what the Cops say it is more like 110 of a percent. When I was using in the 60,s Subject: question Date: Jun 11 2007 11:55:25 AM Author: new to weed can you lace weed with lidocaine? Subject: yo Date: Jan 30 2007 01:44:39 AM Author: re-re it's fucking myth! Subject: hmm Date: Jan 26 2007 03:29:29 PM Author: gigi heroin in ecstasy is a mith,unless the dealer specifies it.simply because heroin is very expensive,tricky to get a hold of in pure state and dangerous to be caught with substance.secondly dealers are smart,they don t make fortunes from selling a couple of pills they make their daily bread from a steady clientele formed mainly from clubbers and teen agers.and they re not going to unleash heroin on these little shitheads and kill them,because,if one dies,no one in the club or area will buy from you. now heroin,you can only get pure heroin from afganistan.fact.drug companies buy it from them but won't admit it.most of it passes through my country before going to mainland europe so you can get pretty good stuff unless you buy from gipseys .. that s all i know .i never tried weed,or cocaine(i am already hyperactive),just smoked heroine a couple of times and it s nice but i don t like to hit the needle so i tone it down.tried ecstasy once,it felt nice,every touch was a wonderful sensation but i had a really bad fever so fuck it.good old fashioned alchohol and ciggarettes are my favourite substances .but i would like to try cocaine just to see how it feels,hey scarface did it,and he turned out ok right? :D Subject: raid Date: Jan 26 2007 12:40:13 PM Author: 420 I always heard that "spot weed"- nickels and dimes were sprayed with raid(incesticide) to make the bags swell Subject: heroin in ecstasy is a total myth. Date: Nov 27 2006 12:24:03 AM Author: dum dum boy heroin does not exist in ecstasy tablets. out of the tens of thousands of ecstasy tablets from all over the world that have been tested, only ONE had heroin in it. this is because, economically, it's stupid for dealers to put heroin in pills. it's a retarded idea and everyone who manufactures ecstasy (except for one very stupid manufacturer, apparently) knows it. also, there is no way to tell what is in a pill without testing it. "little brown specks" mean nothing. less misinformation please. Subject: Heroin Date: Oct 04 2006 12:14:32 PM Author: Blightsmite http://www.break.com/index/a_drug_addicts_christmas1.html Subject: glass in my heron Date: Aug 06 2006 05:50:09 PM Author: da /dawgg i'm just doing my part recycling. what comes around,goes around or is it what goes around,comes around or isn't it green piece piece of green yeah babie oh wait a minute i have to find a couple a more car bateries to scrap the corrosion off the terminals mmmmmm battery acid yummmm Subject: this article makes me curse Date: Jul 19 2006 06:52:43 AM Author: Ricky fuck shit fuck shit Subject: MARIJUANA IN SACRAMENTO Date: May 27 2006 04:00:30 AM Author: VICTOR COOPER THE WEED IN SAC CALIFORNIA IS SATURATED WITH SOME KIND OF CHEMICAL THAT SHOWS UP WHEN WEED IS SOAKED IN WATER THE CHEM LOOKS LIGHT ORANGE VERY PERSISTANCE WHITE SOAPY BUBBLES WHEN AGETATED WHEN SMOKED GIVES INSTANCE BODY TINGLE AND RUSH FROM HEAD TO TOE. HIGH PRESSURE IN HEAD/BRAIN SOAR AND ACHING KIDNY DISCOMBOMERATED FEELING ITS IN ALL WEED MEX AND GREEN SOMEONES ARE SABOTAGEING US HELP! Subject: boo Date: Apr 19 2006 04:58:01 AM Author: roy to the c.e stop reading! experience something, squares. out. Subject: acid Date: Apr 16 2006 12:15:20 PM Author: acidhead you should have bought some acid and tested the purity of that. Subject: Coke Date: Jan 18 2006 08:20:30 AM Author: DJ Kettle personally i think most of the coke in the uk is less than 60percent pure. people cut that stuff all the time, its a very easy way to make money, because its so easy to cut, no repressing just cut it and spray it with a little water, baby teething powder is a very common one- making your gums tingle like good coke. Subject: irresponsible shits Date: Oct 22 2005 04:24:32 PM Author: reuben suroosh, could you please speak the fuck up? Subject: irresponsible shits Date: Oct 22 2005 04:24:32 PM Author: reuben suroosh, could you please speak the fuck up? Subject: Guess what... Date: Sep 26 2005 05:18:03 PM Author: Matt Yeah well guess what...any moron who goes and buys drugs randomly without knowing even a little about the source is running the risk of getting themselves killed so if they do boo-fucking-hoo...they were probably assholes anyway. Subject: this article ruined my life Date: Sep 26 2005 03:28:55 PM Author: youruinedmylife i used this article as a source for information on a college paper, well i failed becuase of this source, now i got kicked out of college because I was already on academic probation, my job doesnt give me any hours any more because they think im a loser who got kicked out of school, my girlfriend dumped me because she thinks my life is going no where now, my parents wont pay for tuition at another school because they think i suck at life, and on top of that, i bought some E because you said it was clean, and now theres a hole in my brain. thanks a lot. Subject: pure? Date: Sep 24 2005 11:04:15 PM Author: fluffy I thought pure MDMA wouldnt even press without some kind of bonding agent? Ive tried it, just falls apart, thats why you get that shit in a flap or gelcaps. If some sketchy chemist has a sink full of mdma and a bathtub full of meth, and the market is for pills, well, let me tell you, a lot of that meth is getting pressed in with the mdma. Subject: horrible, horrible misinformation... Date: Aug 22 2005 06:36:21 PM Author: unreal nearly all of this article is incorrect--smoking cocaine HCL? you can waste your coke but you would be better off burning 20 dollar bills and chasing the dragon on the smoke. Confusing PCP with embalming fluid? Ever hear of slang? You seem to touch on the slang and inaccuracies yet still fuck it up. Your MDMA was 100% pure? I think you need to visit www.bluelight.nu and get educated, or visit dancesafe.org or pillreports.com and see that pill's result listed. And the cocaine purity? Seems like your dealer crack and backed that shit, be happy, you're lucky. Subject: what the fuck Date: Jul 30 2005 03:50:55 PM Author: dope fiend what the fuck..... they need to go buy some dope off the corner and then tell me whats in that shit. fuckin tards Subject: btq Date: Jul 27 2005 12:09:56 PM Author: yeah sweet fucking article Subject: death sentence.... Date: Jul 27 2005 11:58:08 AM Author: yeah Where's the picture of the H? Since it's from NY I'm just going to have to assume it's white, but I want to know how pure the brown shit I was doin' in Portland was...because it was kinda nasty, but fuck, it got me high. Subject: it has cement Date: Jul 13 2005 10:28:17 AM Author: colombiano i live in colombia and i been in a "kitchen", and , yes cement is a basic part of cocaine with out it .... there would be no blow Subject: PCP dipped weed Date: Jul 11 2005 12:20:39 AM Author: strizuck Yeah I remember one time in highschool I had to nab a dub sack off the street due to complications. From what happened later that night I could only conclude that our shit was laced in some way with PCP. No, I didn't see flying toasters blowing bubbles and shit but I know you dont see tracers and hear gay techno music after burning a dub sack. Point in case, though it mihgt not be common it happens and it sure does rule when it does! Subject: WTF Date: Jul 04 2005 10:52:02 AM Author: me Isn't Gideon Yago like the antitheses of everything Vice is supposed to be about? Fuck you guys for ruining my favorite magazine! Subject: d Date: Jul 02 2005 04:02:04 AM Author: d Gideon Yago is a fucking idiot. Subject: i get pimples :O( Date: Jun 29 2005 10:53:24 PM Author: born again stoner they should figure out some shit to put in marijuana so it doesnt dehyrdrate Subject: drugs are awesome Date: Jun 29 2005 03:56:07 PM Author: stoner # 69 i think fuckin drugs should be legal and shit. Subject: The dippies Date: Jun 29 2005 12:44:38 PM Author: ted nougat """""" Findings: PCP-soaked marijuana that is sold as PCP-soaked marijuana doesn’t actually have PCP in it most of the time. you’re not going to ever find any evidence of them actually finding some. Hence quotes like, “Finding embalming fluid to buy on the street is not easy because most street drug dealers make more money selling individual joints soaked with embalming fluid for about $10 to $20. However, if found on the street to purchase, a two-ounce sample of embalming fluid costs about $50.” Oh really?"""""" clearly the smell of a good dip is not one of the skills the author knows about. Too bad she and her Phd buddy can't look up "phenicyclidine" in dictionary. Maybe it doesn't come delivered even though the bragging about the quality of her hookups is everywhere. While the article dispels a myth on one point, then bolsters another right after. I enjoyed it, but I already know where the falsities are. p.s. if the dip smells like tuna, run Subject: legalize it Date: Jun 28 2005 10:08:08 PM Author: ivan b. just grow your own weed and you have nothing to worry about. all other drugs are for fags anyway. Subject: pills Date: Jun 21 2005 12:53:24 PM Author: nikolai last year i went to leeds festival. first night i went walking around the camp site with a yoff that was wearing no shoes (i'm not sure why. i never thought to ask). we weren't sure where we were walking but i noticed that we were walking towards these youthers from clayton (a town in stoke-on-trent. all the clayton-ers are shit n boring). so went there, and all the shit n boring bastards were in their tents fast asleep. diddums. so anyway, we walk round their gay tents, n this guy's like "ay mate.." (n i dont even think he was from stoke) "..do you know anyone that wants some pills?". i mean for fucks sake "YEH! ME!!!!" (coz i was stupid n forgot to bring some). right, so coz it was dark i was havin to ask him what 'brand' they were, so to speak. "are they stars, bruce?" (don't think his name was bruce, he didnt sound australian anyway). which he replies "ermm i dunno. they're blue". which i say "haha, they viagra ya dick?". "no no!! seriously!! they're mental!!.." (startin to sound like a right dodgey fucker) "..seriously, my mates just had some n he's off his tits!"... Subject: pills Date: Jun 21 2005 12:50:57 PM Author: nikolai so i'm like thinking, meh what have a got to lose, £10 for 3, i aint gonna do any better, plus it's only £10. so i take em n go party back at tent, but everyone else has decided go bed. pussies. so next morning i'm cooking my beans, n mate comes over. n i realised "shit! i bought some pills last night!". so i go to get em. i bring em into the light..."that dick said he didn't know if they were stars! they've got fuckin stars imprinted on them1!!!". anyway...i mean what a dick. i popped the third like 3 hours later in pit before thrice whilst talking to these 2 like 14 year olds...n they were like "omg! omg!". fuck off sheila's. Subject: Mjallo? Date: Jun 20 2005 08:02:10 PM Author: Stuf El Magico Bla bla bla, why dont we all just sit down and smoke a big fat blunt while we discuss world hunger and shit....FUCK NO! heres a hint: "Know, Your, Dealer"! if your so fucked up that you let people skullfuck you for drugs, then there is seriously something wrong. You can ship shrooms from amsterdam for all i care. Or even better: "make your own drugs" Like the wizkid said: (google it) Party On! Cheers from DK ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2005!!! Subject: The Bandcroft Syndrome Date: Jun 17 2005 05:29:06 AM Author: racholine Just so everyone knows....if you are about 17, and where a stripy t-shirt, your prime junior burger....and you should really watch The Graduate for further instructions. This goes out to Jonny, and may you hold onto your 17 year old innocence!! Subject: Columbian Necktie Date: Jun 16 2005 11:42:43 AM Author: Rico don't mention my name again you pussies Subject: . little full stop person Date: Jun 16 2005 10:38:47 AM Author: ummmm uh ha There is so smack in pills.....the worlds fav. The Green Mitsubishi....was super dooper smacky!!!..hmmmmmmm 2000, a great vintage!! Subject: COCCO Date: Jun 16 2005 06:37:14 AM Author: COCCO ALL FUCKING DRUGS ARE BAD PURE OR NOT!!!!!!! I ONLY LIKE GOOD SHIT!!!!!! Subject: chill Date: Jun 15 2005 02:28:57 PM Author: brandon yall are talkin about how theres NONE OF THIS IN X and theres NONE OF THAT IN YAYO! people can cut their yack or mdma with anything they want so quit acting like you know fuckin everything Subject: good job Date: Jun 15 2005 07:03:01 AM Author: strong Vice is really doing a public service here. Anyone stupid enough to do these drugs might be encourage by vice. Soon to be weeded out by their own brainless addiction. Subject: glass Date: Jun 15 2005 12:32:32 AM Author: trevalayan yeah, try a variety of dealers and then I'll re-think purity. pills with glass is not an urban myth, ive dopped them. they're designed to get the active ingredients into the blood stream quicker (im not saying it's a good idea, just saying they exist) Subject: TYPO. Date: Jun 14 2005 06:16:27 PM Author: HELL RELL YOU SAID "BOAT" TWICE. HAHA, DUMMY. DIPSET! TALIBAN! PURPLE CITY! Subject: . Date: Jun 13 2005 10:48:05 PM Author: . there's no heroin in pills man, what the fuk are u on about? Subject: ha Date: Jun 13 2005 08:44:24 PM Author: stinky a friend of mine once bought some leaves off this guy in london cause he told him it was weed. leaves. like off a tree. what a fanny. Subject: Street E aint pure. Date: Jun 12 2005 06:36:46 PM Author: wag Why the fuck did you do an article on the purity of street drugs, and then when your coke and E came back really pure chalk it up to good dealers? most people don't have "good dealers". seriously, how hard would it have been to go out and buy a few different kinds of E from less reliable sources, like your average asshole does? it should be pretty obvious to anyone that has used street E (5-10 bucks a cap around here) that its cut with a multitude of things, but most likely speed. Subject: meth,tweak,crank,speed... Date: Jun 12 2005 02:19:33 AM Author: i dont think meth is in there for the fact that it's all fucken chemicals to begin with. just a bunch of shit to fry your brain at your own pace. don't get me wrong, i love the trip, but whoever came up with that shit should go straight to hell...i hate you bastards! Subject: meth Date: Jun 11 2005 07:17:41 PM Author: marijuana in your brain I would like to see alittle bit about meth in there as my friends little sister has reasonally become a meth head....shes fucked. Subject: Date: Jun 11 2005 05:09:45 PM Author: gideon yago?! what does he know?... that fuck face. Subject: uummmmmmmm Date: Jun 11 2005 02:33:20 AM Author: Wookie the manster dork Coke is good for you! Subject: Laced potweed Date: Jun 10 2005 04:46:24 PM Author: Reggie I once found a joint in the middle of the street in broad daylight. Two friends and I smoked it that night and got higher than any of us had ever been. We all hallucinated like mad. I remember it as clearly as an acid trip (see "Shrooms Reunion"). It was laced with something super awesome. I wish I knew what. Subject: iamtexture@hotmail.com Date: Jun 10 2005 04:34:56 PM Author: texture There - is - NO - HEROIN - in - ecstasy - www.ecstasydata.org - It's too fucking expensive. Subject: john Date: Jun 09 2005 07:09:50 PM Author: gideon yago gideon yago helped with the reporting for this article, is that serious? mtv is a bunch of fucking toolbags. Subject: Crack At The 7-11 Date: Jun 09 2005 06:34:44 PM Author: Tanito It should be you walk into your corner convenience store and get chemically pure, FDA tested freebase cocaine for sale as you would a pack of cigarettes, or an energy drink. It would come in cool wrappers and be really cheap. Subject: . Date: Jun 09 2005 05:14:02 AM Author: . "A few years back I was spinning records" Schmuck. Subject: LA viceland Date: Jun 08 2005 11:11:43 PM Author: discokitty a few years back i was spinning records at the standard in LA. one of the guys from vice mag was in town to open up the clothing store in silverlake. i remember him and my friend from this clothing line stopping by with a bottle of whiskey and in the process of hooking up some coke. i was sooo not into it, i was way above them. i was stuck in a k hole in the bathroom. i was in the bathroom cause i was fixing heroin. no one knew i was strung the fuck out. tring to get well in a k hole was a real accomplishment. and i really was thinking "those fucking coke whore losers." Subject: drugs, part II Date: Jun 08 2005 09:25:05 PM Author: berries cont. the human excrement contains neat bacteria (including hep a) that then make stupid ass dope fiends like me almost die. maybe this is just black tar, i don't know, but my proof, my own body and a huge roomful of others who suffered similar problems, might make your mit chemist scratch his head. i don't think it's common because none of my friends in rehab nor most of the people in aa and na that i go to have shared about anything like this. but i saw 100+ people in the hospital who did. maybe those people just don't make it to rehab or 12 step programs. also, you can't just heat it up and detoxify it. bacteria is too strong. Subject: drugs, part I Date: Jun 08 2005 09:22:22 PM Author: berries thanks, i liked this article. it dispels some of the myths about what drugs are cut with. to add to it, i have some first-hand information that you missed that might help a dope fiend out... i live in la. i'm a recovering heroin addict. i didn't share needles or dope and generally used (or reused) clean ones from the needle exchange. i developed a bacterial infection i thought was an abcess. turns out it was a staph infection (plus many other kinds of bacteria too advanced for this audience to comprehend i'm sure). there, in la county hospital, i lay for two months dealing with this. i learned i was not alone: there was a whole ward of junkies with arms cut off, legs cut off, etc., as a result of this type of thing. it comes from this: the dope in california arrives by way of mexico or another latin american country who, ultimatly, probably get it from afghanistan, who imports upwards 90% of the world's heroin (scroll to the very bottom: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html). our latin american neighbors don't like drug addicts too much and lots of times they'll piss or throw shit in the dope for, well yeah, shits and giggles. please see part II for the rest of this fascinating story... Subject: the end of western civ Date: Jun 08 2005 08:40:50 PM Author: eric francis finally, vice has done it - published the article that will bring western civilization to a demented, drug crazed halt. if the vice editors really love the civilization that provides their ink, paper, advertisers, readers, etc., they will GET RID of this article...because that will be it. i say leave it up Subject: lsd Date: Jun 08 2005 02:00:11 PM Author: v volt lsd has virtually disappeared for several reasons. one was the bust of a huge lab five years ago. this lab was likely producing most of the acid in the US (some dispute this, but the acid's gone and that's a fact). two, unlike PCP or meth, making lsd is a complex procedure requiring the sythesis of multiple precurors, advanced chemistry skills, and expensive labratory equipment, which brings us to three; given the risk and expense, it simply isn't that profitable. the price of a hit (3-5 dollars) remained constant for thirty years (much less if buying sheets). it would take a huge operation to make millions. the acid available today is most often made in small batches by graduate chemistry students with access to the proper materials. these are the same reasons you rarely see mescaline; cost, risk, and labor aren't worth it. it's easier, less risky, and more profitable to grow shrooms. Subject: you are full of shit!!!!!!! Date: Jun 08 2005 08:00:15 AM Author: astroman AS USUAL!!!!!! I DONT KNOW WHO THE FUCK DID THAT TO YOU BUT THIS IS FACT DUE TO THE COOKING AND THE MIXING COCAINE MAXIMUM GRADE OF PURITY IS 90% NOTHING CAN GET PURER TAN THAT SO SHUT YOUR FUCKING LIAR MOUTH Subject: Gideon is a Pussy Date: Jun 08 2005 12:38:50 AM Author: JB Agreed. The Brain has something there. You couldn't find anyone else other than that bitch to report on street drugs? Fuck, you should've asked his mom, she'd at least cook you dinner and give you a blow job at the end of the day...well, Im sure GY would be happy to take care of that last part. Thanks VICE. Appreciate the info. Subject: drugs are bad Date: Jun 07 2005 07:42:09 PM Author: the brain way to go vice a triumph of science truly inspired journalism you really are just a bunch of NYU trust fund brats and Gideon Yago? please... you guys suck Subject: gideon yago Date: Jun 07 2005 07:04:10 PM Author: ?? who the fuck is gideon yago and why has he/she the ability to get to people so thoroughly? Subject: A'yeah... Date: Jun 07 2005 01:55:35 PM Author: Banister J. Fieldhouse IV Okay, who buys drugs on the street? I live in Brooklyn (not fake-tit b-burg either) and there is no f'ing way I'm gonna go up to one of these future inmates and give them some cash. Delivery, man, delivery. She comes in, is polite, says, "Have a nice weekend". Oh so civilized. Yours, BJF IV Subject: death sentence Date: Jun 07 2005 12:54:32 PM Author: huh? Why is "death sentence" written on the heroin thingies? Subject: manchester shit hole Date: Jun 06 2005 04:46:58 PM Author: burnside The drugs here have been stamped on more times than that glass thing at a Jewish wedding (?). I once bought ten quid of speed from a black guy drinking special brew outside a yeah yeah yeah's gig and it turned out to be folded paper, and a friend once bought some weed that turned out to be italian herbs from a man outside a club. We put the whole bag on a pizza and watched yellow submarine. Subject: ecstasy Date: Jun 05 2005 02:25:20 PM Author: huh chu ? Living in Belfast means all drugs are shitty. The weed belongs on a spice rack and buying coke is basically paying to have loogie stuck in your throat. Ecstasy however is spine meltingly pure and dirt cheap. It could be the reason I have the concentration span of a goldfish. Subject: smoking coke is bullshit Date: Jun 05 2005 06:09:00 AM Author: Schappelle Corby Ordinary cocaine powder (cocaine hydrochloride) can be smoked but this is ineffective due to the powder’s high melting temperature. Everybody knows cocaine belongs in cleavage and asscracks. Douchebags. Subject: I'm stupid Date: Jun 04 2005 03:04:42 PM Author: Pothead is that joke about gideon yago? Subject: yago Date: Jun 04 2005 08:53:20 AM Author: mammary isnt gideon yage some MTV vj loser? Subject: ok here we go Date: Jun 04 2005 04:31:31 AM Author: flutopia crack is a good bet? that's all i needed to hear. Subject: purity Date: Jun 04 2005 12:15:55 AM Author: joeblowww ha ha...fuck all you losers that use(and sell) biker shit. you time is over, fuckfaces Subject: drug purity Date: Jun 04 2005 12:07:52 AM Author: bennie winnie if you really want to die, take 17 hours of pbs "programming"during a pledge drive.. the first hour is all boredom, the second hour and a half is hellish introspection, and the last is cursing the creep that burned you. who says reporters dont take drugs? read the classics, pussy. but really, it helped me sort out my spiritualty, sexuality and personality-and i helped support public programming. mahalo, doc.. Subject: Pureness is relative Date: Jun 03 2005 06:31:01 PM Author: Arioch How pure your drugs are depends on where you are... In sweden (where I live) you can mostly find good shit at a decent cost. Take a boatride to Estonia and you can find the best chemicals in the world for almost no cash at all. Then again, I used to live in Australia and for fuck's sake! £12 for a pill, £150-300 for crap coke and let's not get started on the acid. But, in all honesty, the aussies know their shrooms and their weed... Subject: quits Date: Jun 03 2005 03:36:28 PM Author: hi5s I have been clean for over a year...reading this article is making me grind my teeth...... me sooo hungry...thanks vice.....assholes Subject: thank god Date: Jun 03 2005 06:13:46 AM Author: just another I thank the power that be that I dont have to worry about the pureness of my shit. Being in recovery also isnt too bad. Its just making my life a little bit less complicated. Subject: what about my tar? Date: Jun 03 2005 05:39:28 AM Author: kill whitey Anyway you could get some one to test out some mexican tar? I'd love to know what's in there (besides heroin, silly), but my spanish has faded since I moved away from NYC. By the by, drugs out here in the mid-west are a bit more cut than on the lovely east coast (check out some North Philly shit. WOW!), we like to use baby laxatives, and powdered sugar. Dissolves in water, and no (major) harmful effects. Keeps the newbies from o.d.'ing too. Subject: hmmmm Date: Jun 03 2005 03:21:28 AM Author: b.69 drugs don't kill, it's the dose that kills. i'll take em all & run a mile Subject: gideon yago is a fag Date: Jun 02 2005 08:58:08 PM Author: gideon yago is a cunt i hate gideon yago Subject: damn hippies Date: Jun 02 2005 08:22:37 PM Author: missdose yeah, to answer your question, mollies are total hippy shit. i was once stupid enough to attend a phish concert in my local town just to get a hold of some. crowds of people yelling molly? molly? so youd go up to them and buy it. i guess its better than rainbow? rainbow?.... Subject: wuts in my flavours of fun? Date: Jun 02 2005 08:18:48 PM Author: fuk me up pure MDMA is around. but who wants pure pills...wuts the fun in that Subject: nice Date: Jun 02 2005 08:09:01 PM Author: herb great experiment. how cut up are my marlboros? Subject: LSD Date: Jun 02 2005 06:39:00 PM Author: polski Where is the LSD? All you chemistry majors need to be getting on that. Pure cyrstalized LSD-25 can make you a fucking millionaire. Or would you rather work for Pfizer? Subject: what?! Date: Jun 02 2005 04:12:21 PM Author: scams gideon yago? Subject: molly Date: Jun 02 2005 03:45:21 PM Author: dionysus yeah I think molly is a totall hippie drug. I knew some people in san francisco that used to get it but we never see it down in LA... What I wanna know is, where's the goddamn mescaline? I've only gotten my hands on it once and it was clean and pleasant. Probably the only hallucinogen I would still play with... Subject: Pure MDMA Date: Jun 02 2005 03:31:56 PM Author: me Havne't y'all ever heard of Mollie? Molecular ecstasy? It's a powder and you snort it or eat it or whatever. If you know your chemist/dealer, it's clean, pure and kicks the ass of your pressies. Is mollie just a hippie drug? PS I live in Bushwick and I don't see no crack being sold all namby-pamby. Subject: nofx Date: Jun 02 2005 03:07:10 PM Author: fat mike drugs are good . and, when you do them, people think that you're cool. Subject: oh yea Date: Jun 02 2005 02:43:07 PM Author: ummm and a dose of heroin smaller than a booger is REALLY going to fuck you up if you take it orally.. sure. Subject: integrity Date: Jun 02 2005 02:14:48 PM Author: ummm ever heard of an organization called Dancesafe? they've been testing pills for years and heroin is extremely rare - and you know why? BECAUSE HEROIN IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN MDMA, IDIOTS. MDMA and opiates taken seperately do not synergize at all, in my experience. you just missed a golden opportunity to dispel more misinformation and ended the article with a total 180. Subject: Pills Date: Jun 02 2005 01:46:12 PM Author: Eights Pure MDMA pill's?. What is this 1989? I agree with what you say about the others but it's a fact that pill's are anything but MDMA. I dunno if the situation is different in Yank land, but over the pond in the U.K no-one above the age of 15 with any sense will go near e's. This because quite frankly it's a massive gamble. For fuck's sake, they cost ONE POUND over here, and if anyone thinks that when price goes down - quality goes up they need their fucking head examined.... Subject: Reading comprehension is our friend. Date: Jun 02 2005 10:37:49 AM Author: dur To agent77: The police are above the law in these situations, doing buy and busts, etc... whereas a random MIT Chemist is NOT working with law enforcement, but IS in possession of highly illegal drugs. Just thought I'd point out the obvious. Subject: My mom won't let me do drugs. Date: Jun 02 2005 09:27:36 AM Author: JellyBean Seriously. What a drag. But, she's cool. She drives me and my buddies to the movies. Subject: uh-huh. Date: Jun 02 2005 04:44:03 AM Author: agent 77 " The samples were analyzed by a PhD chemist at MIT (we can’t say his name or he’ll get fired)" and... "Is this a top-secret thing that the “law enforcement officials” are afraid to go on record about?" just thought I'd point out the obvious... Subject: white bitch Date: Jun 02 2005 01:18:32 AM Author: cuntlip "piece of human garbage in bushwick" racist. Subject: hmmm Date: Jun 01 2005 08:18:00 PM Author: yezzz This is a fairly shitty article written by someone who is obviously quite into her drugs. Yeah, cooking coke purifies it, but it makes CRACK dude. That is the exact same excuse my friends would make when they hit that pipe. "Oh, its better this way, its clean now" Then they would hit it, and tears would stream down their cheeks, and their jaw would start doing a death roll. Good times. Subject: ADAMDMA Date: Jun 01 2005 12:45:18 AM Author: Adumbarwiglet wow...pure MDMA? Haven't seen that in YEARS... Subject: i hate that Date: May 31 2005 10:54:16 PM Author: ruck i remember those ecstacy freckles. i felt like i had bitten into an apple and found half a worm. Subject: no,no Date: May 31 2005 08:51:25 PM Author: come on Noone reading this will derive anything from it but maybe a sense of dissillusionment. Not relief. No article would affect the decision made by those of whom you speak. Verdict: Calm down. Subject: re: dumbfucks Date: May 31 2005 06:43:12 PM Author: urbantrashpoet great, now every wannabe junkie on the street's gonna read this shiet and go on a street shoppin spree trying to score a fix, and prob actually find a hit of some nasty ass shiet and die, thanks to you!