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That's a good point. Anecdotally, street ketamine friends have come across has appeared pretty pure under reagent testing, but that's obviously still nothing like medical quality.

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As far as I know, Ketamine is hard to produce in a home-lab (more so than other recreational drugs). At least here in the NL, the Ketamine you can get on the streets basically just comes from the same factories as Ketamine that is administered to e.g. animals. Might be cut with some things, or might contain both isomers (they don't report those results if you get your drugs tested, just purity).

Reagents generally test for presence, not purity, so all you can conclude is that there is some ketamine in there.

You can get your drugs tested for free in many places (at least here in the NL). They test for purity (87% is the maximum), and also for the presence of other things like caffeine that it may have been cut with. Getting the maximum purity is not uncommon, as they basically just source it from the veterinary circuit if I remember correctly.

[0] (in Dutch, under "De Markt"): https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/document...

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