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cgod  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [48 Hours] War Nerd: Of Speed and ISIS

In my experience the counterfeit stuff is never as good but maybe the ISIS guys have all the luck. Anyway I'd love to see your sourcing for ISIS getting top notch amphetamines while the stuff the rest of the world gets is shit. I don't think you could pay me enough to zoot an ISIS oxy.

No reason to get all hysterically defensive about the Adderall, no one here thinks your going to burn anyone alive. I don't mind a little something something from time to time myself and I've never burnt anyone alive.





user-inactivated  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't actually take Adderall, I was prescribed it once and it was actually a near burn people alive experience :). I still am not anti-Adderall, though, just anti-me-on-Adderall.

The phrase "superpowered" was invented by me because I was (am) on a superpowered dose of this street drug kids are calling "coffee" nowadays.

But my facts weren't completely off despite being jacked up on magical bean juice.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Hezbollah-and-the-traffic-in-counterfeit-Captagon-407513

That article explains that most of the Captagon is counterfeit, and this research article from ~2004 (which goes to show, this isn't a new thing in the middle east... it's apparently been around awhile out there and was cracked down in 1988).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073804004591

    The Drug Control Department of the Public Security Directorate of Jordan has put captagon under control in the year 1988.

    Samples from 124 batches seized were analyzed by means of gas chromatograph–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The analysis demonstrates the presence of amphetamine, caffeine and several other substances, besides, the absence of fenethylline.

So it has amphetamine, magical bean juice, and several other things. If this table is to be trusted (source: a really crappy blog that sources the article above that I can't find a PDF of):

It supposedly has amphetamine, methamphetamine, ephedrine, metronidazole, magical bean juice, theophylline, chlorphenamine, procaine, trimethoprim, chloroquine, and quinine.

The magical bean juice alone is too much for me to handle, clearly.

EDIT: That image works if you click it, not sure why it's not displaying correctly...

cgod  ·  3093 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The power of an amphetamine, or almost anything else, is generally a function of quanity consumed. The fact that it's not FDA regulated just means it's not all that different from domesfic US trailer brewed meth, a local varietal if you will but nothing special.