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Test your drugs folks! This service seemed to be missing the rating system that is default behavior on darknet drug bazaars. Operating instead under the lure o

Test your drugs folks! This service seemed to be missing the rating system that is default behavior on darknet drug bazaars. Operating instead under the lure of exclusivity. The ratings systems tend to call out impure or mis-advertised substances. Consumers have to keep testing kits in this unregulated environment, and especially decriminalized environments where the state is totally hands off. Consumers can mistake this as tacit consent where peddlers can distribute their snake oil with no regard for their supply chain or their customers.

undefined3840 7y ago
Testing only tells you whether a certain drug is in something. It doesn’t tell you if it contains something else as well.
- Nursie 7y ago
  Some testing services exist in some countries that can do better than just a reagent test.
- abacadaba 7y ago
  Also testing a powder / pill shaving doesn't necessarily mean that a speck sized grain of fent didn't make it into the bag somewhere. But hey at least there's mushies still. Stay safe kids.
- jes5199 7y ago
  yes, but fentanyl is usually unwanted and is much more dangerous than the others (due to wildly varying potencies). Some shelters have been handing out fentanyl test strips - fentanyl contamination has dramatically increased the number of fatalities among opioid users
- rozab 7y ago
  Whatever drug you are taking, you would test for fentanyl (usually 5 or so reagents are used). This would have saved this guys life.
thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
According to the article he died from a lethal combination of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. Did you read something in the article that lead you to believe that he would be alive if he was testing?
- 0x00000000 7y ago
  Probably. “In early February, the New York City medical examiner’s office found Mr. Kroll’s cause of death was an accidental overdose by fentanyl-laced heroin” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-hq-trivia-made-millions-in-his-20s-he-was-dead-by-34-11550283078 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-h...
  - md224 7y ago
    Yep. The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what they intended to take. I hope people don't think that the epidemic of fentanyl deaths is due to fentanyl increasing in popularity among drug users... what increased in popularity was the tendency of immoral drug dealers to lace their heroin with fentanyl in order to increase the strength of it. When you see heroin and fentanyl in a toxicology report, there's a very good chance that the drug user didn't realize they were consuming the latter.
    - o-__-o 7y ago
      Problem is testing won’t always catch hot shots. You gonna test all 25 of them Molly pills to make sure they all good? No.
      - dbuder 7y ago
        Never got into pills of any sort but that's why people grind it all up and put it in caps.
    - thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
jklein11 7y ago
Not sure why you are getting all of the downvotes. I think you have a pretty interesting point. If drug users were educated on how to test the purity and had better information on dosing maybe it would prevent overdoses. Then again, maybe it would give them a false sense of security and be more reckless. I wonder if this has been studied.
- rolltiide 7y ago
  Because admitting the normalization of drug use across all socioeconomic classes is a taboo topic. Also because apparently consumer level tests have limitations.
golergka 7y ago
It also helps when the marketplace takes this seriously as well. A regular user can be expected to, at most, use a ready made test from the internet. A marketplace quality control can use a spectrometer and identify the exact purity, as well as the exact contents.
- goatsi 7y ago
  If a group of regular users band together it's pretty easy to crowdfund detailed testing. Take a look at sites like DNStars. https://dnstars.vip/results/ https://dnstars.vip/results/

undefined3840 7y ago

Testing only tells you whether a certain drug is in something. It doesn’t tell you if it contains something else as well.

Nursie 7y ago
Some testing services exist in some countries that can do better than just a reagent test.
abacadaba 7y ago
Also testing a powder / pill shaving doesn't necessarily mean that a speck sized grain of fent didn't make it into the bag somewhere. But hey at least there's mushies still. Stay safe kids.
jes5199 7y ago
yes, but fentanyl is usually unwanted and is much more dangerous than the others (due to wildly varying potencies). Some shelters have been handing out fentanyl test strips - fentanyl contamination has dramatically increased the number of fatalities among opioid users
rozab 7y ago
Whatever drug you are taking, you would test for fentanyl (usually 5 or so reagents are used). This would have saved this guys life.

thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago

According to the article he died from a lethal combination of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. Did you read something in the article that lead you to believe that he would be alive if he was testing?

0x00000000 7y ago
Probably. “In early February, the New York City medical examiner’s office found Mr. Kroll’s cause of death was an accidental overdose by fentanyl-laced heroin” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-hq-trivia-made-millions-in-his-20s-he-was-dead-by-34-11550283078 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-h...
- md224 7y ago
  Yep. The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what they intended to take. I hope people don't think that the epidemic of fentanyl deaths is due to fentanyl increasing in popularity among drug users... what increased in popularity was the tendency of immoral drug dealers to lace their heroin with fentanyl in order to increase the strength of it. When you see heroin and fentanyl in a toxicology report, there's a very good chance that the drug user didn't realize they were consuming the latter.
  - o-__-o 7y ago
    Problem is testing won’t always catch hot shots. You gonna test all 25 of them Molly pills to make sure they all good? No.
    - dbuder 7y ago
      Never got into pills of any sort but that's why people grind it all up and put it in caps.
  - thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago

jklein11 7y ago

Not sure why you are getting all of the downvotes. I think you have a pretty interesting point. If drug users were educated on how to test the purity and had better information on dosing maybe it would prevent overdoses. Then again, maybe it would give them a false sense of security and be more reckless. I wonder if this has been studied.

rolltiide 7y ago
Because admitting the normalization of drug use across all socioeconomic classes is a taboo topic. Also because apparently consumer level tests have limitations.

golergka 7y ago

It also helps when the marketplace takes this seriously as well. A regular user can be expected to, at most, use a ready made test from the internet. A marketplace quality control can use a spectrometer and identify the exact purity, as well as the exact contents.

goatsi 7y ago
If a group of regular users band together it's pretty easy to crowdfund detailed testing. Take a look at sites like DNStars. https://dnstars.vip/results/ https://dnstars.vip/results/