Trying to determine if my son was smoking meth off of foil. What would burned meth residue look like? He claims he was smoking pot from foil, but he has papers for rolling joints. He acted like he was on meth, but claims it was the X that he was ingesting and snorting. He supposedly has made all of his drug disclosures to us - he's been in 2 programs for 4+ months and has 12 months to go.
Foil w/burned residue, no pot smell. Is it meth? Son uses X (methbased), DXM, pot. Says foil for pot
Question posted by Anonymous on 10 Dec 2009
Last updated on 3 January 2022
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8 Answers
Ayla1246
28 Nov 2018
What kind of drug has a yellow trail on aluminum foil?
bombedout
3 Feb 2013
Ok the foil for smoking meth died out in the 90's your son is smoking herion hope im wrong but really if he is smoking meth on foil trust me he just started using it so fiind out now before it takes control of him
JustAShow
11 July 2013
It didn't die out in the 90's.. People still do it and in fact the last time my p
Periclesgreekcolony
1 Feb 2013
From experience I can tell you that pot would leave a black residue on the inside of a tinfoil pipe. The residue left from pot would be a sticky black residue that will stick to your fingers if you mess around with it, where as I believe crack and meth residues usually harden. Pot residues could also harden so I am not trying to tell you for sure what was in the pipe, just putting it out there that I wouldn't rule out pot and would check the consistency of the residue to have a better idea. Who knows though unless you find real proof of what is going on, so I wouldn't go jumping to conclusions. PS sometimes I don't feel like smoking a whole joint so I would make a tinfoil pipe to use myself dispite having papers or not, usually when i wanted to conserve my weed and not roll a whole joint.
briintheeye
2 Feb 2012
all those other responses to your question are probably wrong. You can smoke meth on foil but it does not leave much of a residue. If it looks like little black trails of residue that are left it is not meth, it's heroin. sorry.
lynnann2
5 July 2012
Sorry, you're wrong. Meth that is cut with bad crap DOES leave black on foil. Been there, done that.
satalite44
13 June 2011
wallgreens has a drug test , nothing like a random to make him think.
kkw4663
30 Aug 2010
I found a piece of tinfoil with a burnt brown residue in it. I found it in my husband's shorts pockets... I questioned it and he said it was k2. I know better. I am thinking more along the lines of meth or crack... Please help...
oxyaaron
27 Sep 2010
could be meth wouldnt be crack you dont smoke that on tinfoil.. could also be oxycontin or herion...
kodysnaz
19 Aug 2011
To be honest with you, it is smoking heroin.
ylie
30 Jan 2012
I found a piece of tin foil in my 22 year old sons room. he use to have a problem with pills and this piece of foil smells like an ash tray but has black residue on it and I'm concerned of what it is. please help...
JustAShow
11 July 2013
I see this is old, but I want to add to it, in regards to meth burning almost clean on foil.. False. If its cut a lot ( dealers put crap in the dope to make it look like more) than it can be black, and it happens often. In fact that best way to check to see if dope is cut too much is by doing a foil test. If it turns black, it's crap.
abreharris23
3 Aug 2013
There are a few things that can be smoked I know a few people that have even smoked pain pills so its possible but only time will tell.
thronedrago
3 Jan 2022
leave your husbands shorts alone before he leaves you alone. every man needs his space this is more than a man doing a drug this is a subconscious way of getting out of a relationship dont fall for it
chadknight2318
1 March 2010
I am sorry, but yes, he was smoking meth. You don't smoke weed on tin foil. Especially if you have papers. The only thing that you burn on tinfoil is meth (ice, dope, etc... ) because it's the only drug that turns into oil when you heat it. So it requires a different means than something like pot that just burns into ash. Thus the tin foil. If he's still smoking it then at least he hasn't graduated to injecting it yet. So he's probably hasn't went fiend yet. If he had, you would abhsolutely know he was an addict. Meth transforms 99% of the normal and good people who get started on it into absolutely and thouroughly moraless fiends who will cut their own mothers throat for a $20 shot of meth. Every single female that I know that does meth will sell their bodies to absolutely anybody for a $20 shot of it. I know you're thinking that I exagerate, but I do not.
I saw people do things for it that I'll be really glad if I never have to think about them again. Sorry, I have to cut this short but if there's anything at all that you want to know about that world, such as telltale symptoms of doing meth, you can reach me. The best of luck.
Sacosam
1 Sep 2010
Hey Chad; from saco's for what it's worth dept. Back in the late 50's and early 60's, Meth was a lot cleaner. Then, they also had something called "crossroads" [an avg. sized white pill with a cross on it] Truck drivers could run cross country on either Meth. or crossroads, or "Yellow Jackets"(Pharma. Meds.) no problems, no bad thoughts, nothing. As long as you kept a little food in you, you could run for a week. What are they making this crap they call Meth. out of today , anybody know ? ? Sacosam
oxyaaron
5 Sep 2010
it is not necessicerally meth you can smoke alot of other drugs on tinfoil
dozerqueen
23 June 2011
chadknight... sounds more like you've been asociating with crack heads instead of people who do meth...
lynnann2
5 July 2012
Hi Chad.
Been there and done that meth everyday for 30 years but this female NEVER stole money or sold my body for a line. I stopped cold turkey 4 years ago and without help from ANYONE. I don't think you should lump every meth head together. Some of us addicts thought more of ourselves, believe in people or not.
Dsstany
13 April 2018
Hello, I think my brother maybe doing this, he won’t tell us anything he asks for $20 $40 or $60 everytime he runs out of money from his pay check then he goes to the bathroom and when he comes back he’s all sweaty and yells and talks rude like then he’ll calm down and go back to the bathroom and it repeats I also noticed a burnt popcorny smell after he leaves, he has a little straw and tin foil with this black sticky stuff on the foil. I just need to know what he’s doing.
Psychmajor
10 Dec 2009
this could be almost anything, he could have smoked meth, xtc, other pills like amphetamines, (adhd meds are amphet.), pain killers, benzos, and more... i doubt its pot unless it still looks like the leaves or is just complete ash (i guess if it was hash it could look like a line). if hes in treatment and isnt showing signs of wanting to be clean it would probably be best to have him do inpatient treatment because chances are hes going to keep using throughout the treatment and have no progress
kodysnaz
19 Aug 2011
more along the lines of heroin.
painfree4life
5 Oct 2011
herion,myth ,or bathsalt .bathsalt would leave a white dusty look myth would burn almost clean and herion would burn black . ive seen it all, i come from a very disfunctional family . inpatient help is what he needs and just pray it works . good luck to you and god bless.
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