what do phenethylamines field test positive for?

Hey all I'm kinda new here but not 2 the scene. Swim was arrested with 4-aco-dmt and mephedrone. Upon finding these treasures the police pulled out their "field test kit" I'm sure many of you know what I'm talking about. It is a little vial in which they add the substance and depending on what color it turns they can tell what it is and if its llegal. Now the preliminary test showed 4-AcO-Dmt as heroin; and the mephedrone as methamphetamine. My question then becomes, does anyone know if phenethylamines (specifically 2C-P) Give a preliminary positive for any controlled substances? Also, an explanation of why the 4-aco and meph tested positive for what they did wouldn't hurt. Thanks

 

Man, I hope you arn't getting charged with heroin, that's a raw deal there.

This is a good question I have never thought of, because I don't travel with drugs... But I would like to know if the event ever came up... You should be carrying MSDS sheets of the substances that you are carrying and have a very good reason to have them. Be prepared for the worse.

 

all field tests can do definitively is rule out the presence of a drug...

2c-p MAY test positive on a field test for amphetamines, but lab analysis will show otherwise.

 

so are you saying you can't get charged (or at least convicted) based on a field test alone? if it tests positive for heroin, they have to lab test it to make sure?

 

I don't see them sndig everyhing to the lab for testing, that's expensive. If it tested positive for H I would totally see ass hole cops and judicial system charging you. My .02 cents. If you went to court to fight it and requested testing, that might save you.

 

I heard about some people my friend knows that got pulled over on Halloween with some JWH and a meth pipe. The cop took them to jail but once they tested the JWH and found that it wasn't meth they were let go.

 

That's good to know!

 

That really sucks dude but how on earth did you get arrested and why on earth did you have those 2 substances on you?

 

Just driving on the way to an amusement park. Illegal search so wrkd in court but yea they arrested and booked stayed in jail for 2 months on H and crystal only for lab results to come back negative (they always send 2 lab btw field is just preliminary). Why do you expect 2C to show up as amph? Any basis?

 

2 months, that's raw.

 

it's pretty surprising that 4acodmt would show up as heroin. they aren't very similar, structurally. 2cxs are somewhat similar to amphetamine, so that's probably his basis.

 

they're most similar in structure to amphetamine than anything else...both compounds are members of the phenehylamine family:

2c-p: 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylphenethylamine
amphetamine: alpha-methylphenethylamine

a lab analysis will show that 2c-p is in fact NOT an amphetamine...but a field test might mix the 2 up...that's just my own speculation based upon my basic conceptual grasp of the chemestry here.

 

and if 4acodmt showed up as heroin,
who knows wtf it could show up as?

 

That's a pretty shitty field test if a tryptamine shows up as an opiate . . .

 

Lmao yeah seriously.. Getting slammed on a hard schedule 1 substance with something that isn't even scheduled at all.. jeez

 

there's a report on erowid of somebody who got caught up selling 4-aco-dmt as "shroom powder" at his highschool [...sigh...] and got charged for sales of mushrooms...

but idk why it tested for heroin...fucken pigs