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You can (and should) test with home test kits for a lot less than $100.

• pmoriarty 7y ago
  The reagent tests that are in those DIY kits aren't as reliable as the Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry tests that ecstacydata runs. It's easy to misread a reagent test[1], and they won't tell you all the substances that are in a sample, just the particular sample(s) they test for. GC/MS is much more definitive, in that it'll tell you every known substance that's in your sample (though, unfortunately, ecstasydata is forbidden by the DEA from telling you the amount of each substance they find[2] -- another stupid and harmful result of the War on Drugs). Still, reagent testing (when done carefully, knowledgeably, and properly) is definitely a whole lot better than no testing at all. [1] - For example, was that color you saw black or dark brown or dark violet? Did you wait long enough for the color to change? Did you look at the reagent color under the same lighting as the light you looked at the reference under, and was that lighting adequate enough to differentiate between all the different colors properly? It matters! [2] - https://www.ecstasydata.org/about_data.php#quant https://www.ecstasydata.org/about_data.php#quant