Why people test cocaine on their gum line?
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To test to see if it numbs the gums, as cocaine should. It’s not that good of a test for the user to be honest, as it could just be cut with something like lidocaine to create a similar result. But for law enforcement it at least suggests it’s some sort of illegal substance.
A better test for users in my experience, as they already know it’s cocaine and instead want to see how pure it is, is to rub it between your fingers and see how easily it dissolves. Purer stuff should be silky smooth and disappear without you even feeling it, which is hard to replicate (but I’m not exactly Pablo Escobar so it’s not an exact thing)
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Cocaine is an anesthetic and it will numb your gums. Cocaine is actually not a Schedule I controlled substance* like heroin or methamphetamine. It is a Schedule II substance which means it has acceptable medical uses, like as a dental anesthetic, though dentists normally use different anesthetics like benzocaine or lidocaine, or even procaine (novacaine) – notice how they all end in “-caine”.
*under US law
EDIT: Apparently Meth is a Schedule II. My bad.
It has numbing properties and the gums absorb droogs fast as heck. Compounds like Benzocaine and novacaine are still used in dentistry today for the same reason.
I had a nasty little coke habit in my 20s. I never once tested it on my gums. Once you get acquainted you can take a bump or do a line and see how good it is. I only rubbed it on my gums if it wasn’t enough for a bump or line. End of a bag type thing.
Ok so there are actually a couple ways to test coke without test equipment.
1. Good coke will fluff up with heat. Using either a piece of tin foil and a lighter or a microwave heat an amount of coke. It will dry out and fluff up and there should be no burnt specs just fluffy powder. The burnt specs are the cut and not the coke
2. Rubbing it between your fingers. If you take a small amount and rub it between your fingers it should dissolve completely and feel a little greasy. If there are any clumps that is the the cut and not the coke.
3. Smell. This isn’t always applicable but if your coke has a smell to it. It should smell like gasoline or just a little like chemicals. But the better the coke the less smell it has. This has to do with how it’s made, if it was a rushed job or it had the proper amount of time to cook.
You should follow the previous steps before you get to this point. The previous steps will help determine if your coke was cut with cheaper shit and if it has the essence of good coke.
4. Lastly you can rub it on your gums. If all of the previous steps check out you can rub it on your gums.
It should take 3 – 5 min before your mouth will start to go numb. If your mouth goes numb to quick it could be cut with lidocaine or benzocaine.
There are other ways but these are just a basic run down and what I know
It may be worth pointing out that any time you’re actually introducing a drug into your body (even gums) your sampling, not testing. If it’s cut with fentanyl or something you’re sampling that as well.
Just a PSA for less experienced users: don’t ever get coke from anyone you don’t know and trust well. There’s been a concerning number of cases of people dying from coke that was cut with fentanyl.
to see if it numbs your gums.
maybe that USED to be a good way to test, but nowadays they just cut it with novocaine so it’ll numb your mouth either way.
Not completely sure why people do that but I absolutely hated cocaine. I tried it just to see what the hype was about and I really don’t understand how people get addicted to that stuff. Wears off in 30 minutes to an hour and by my third or fourth redose I became robotic but still had a lot of energy and couldn’t stop talking but I couldn’t feel my emotions at all, I basically turned into a crackhead within like 3 hours flat. Wouldn’t do it again even if it was free lol
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