Deinonychus
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No offense, but there's one definite flaw there, and then there's something that is debatable as a flaw or not depending on your opinion.
The definite flaw is the lactose. Cutting drugs isn't easy. You have to thoroughly mix the stuff at the smallest of scales so as to ensure that there will not be variable pockets of stronger or weaker mix. And that is when you have a nice, pure, pharm-grade product. It looks easy to get an even mix, but it isn't as easy as it appears, and the critical part to getting an even mix is to ensure that the cut and the active are both similar texturally.
The resulting extract from this method is going to be a giant mess of alkaloids and other assorted plant compounds, because it's not an acid-base extraction. You're using IPA, which is a somewhat polar solvent, but can also dissolve some less polar stuff as well. The result will contain pretty much every alkaloid in the plant that is soluble at the pH of the water-IPA mix (unless you have truly anhydrous IPA, which I doubt, even reagent grade has a little water in there). That little bit of water will also include some stuff that won't be soluble in IPA alone, though the amount will be small since the water isn't that plentiful.
But my point is you'll have this stuff made out of pretty much everything, that is going to be a complex mix, possibly including hydrated polymorphs if there's enough water and the crystallization technique is off. So it's going to be dense, sticky, and not at all textured like lactose. The chances of getting it all mixed together neatly and evenly even if you try using a coffee grinder is low, low, low. So why even include the lactose? It's not necessary, and worse than not necessary, because it will forever ensure that you can't truly calibrate your doses due to uneven mixing. If somebody's that bent on insufflating an impure mixture of plant compounds, adding excess milk sugar to gum everything up and produce sickeningly sweet drip on top of fucking up dose titration is just a horrible sounding idea, just sniff the extract itself if you've got a raging hardon for using LSA intranasally.
And then the debatable part. I would say that anything other than an acid-base extraction is just amateur, and yields impure product, and leaves product behind as well. In all seriousness an acid-base extraction is just about easier than baking a cake, probably easier than cooking steak reliably to medium-rare. It's kitchen chemistry at its most kitchen-y. Even if the idea of learning a little bit of chemistry makes your anal sphincter clamp up like an oyster, you can still follow the kiddie directions in one or more teks designed for exactly that purpose anywhere on the net. And if you're willing to put in thirty minutes of learning, then you can use the adult teks and actually understand what's going on.
But either way, totally ignorant or fully theoretically mastered, and anywhere in between, there's an acid-base process written up somewhere easy to find that you can follow. This is not negotiable, not in doubt in any way: if you can master the skill of *mixing together liquids*, you can handle such an extraction. And the product is vastly superior, and you get bragging rights for doing something cool. So I won't go so far as to say that using IPA is in and of itself a flaw. I think it is silly and produces a poorer product for barely any less effort and time, but that's my opinion, not absolute truth. The lactose though has to go, there's no reason to mess up your product, it's totally weird and counterproductive to do.
The definite flaw is the lactose. Cutting drugs isn't easy. You have to thoroughly mix the stuff at the smallest of scales so as to ensure that there will not be variable pockets of stronger or weaker mix. And that is when you have a nice, pure, pharm-grade product. It looks easy to get an even mix, but it isn't as easy as it appears, and the critical part to getting an even mix is to ensure that the cut and the active are both similar texturally.
The resulting extract from this method is going to be a giant mess of alkaloids and other assorted plant compounds, because it's not an acid-base extraction. You're using IPA, which is a somewhat polar solvent, but can also dissolve some less polar stuff as well. The result will contain pretty much every alkaloid in the plant that is soluble at the pH of the water-IPA mix (unless you have truly anhydrous IPA, which I doubt, even reagent grade has a little water in there). That little bit of water will also include some stuff that won't be soluble in IPA alone, though the amount will be small since the water isn't that plentiful.
But my point is you'll have this stuff made out of pretty much everything, that is going to be a complex mix, possibly including hydrated polymorphs if there's enough water and the crystallization technique is off. So it's going to be dense, sticky, and not at all textured like lactose. The chances of getting it all mixed together neatly and evenly even if you try using a coffee grinder is low, low, low. So why even include the lactose? It's not necessary, and worse than not necessary, because it will forever ensure that you can't truly calibrate your doses due to uneven mixing. If somebody's that bent on insufflating an impure mixture of plant compounds, adding excess milk sugar to gum everything up and produce sickeningly sweet drip on top of fucking up dose titration is just a horrible sounding idea, just sniff the extract itself if you've got a raging hardon for using LSA intranasally.
And then the debatable part. I would say that anything other than an acid-base extraction is just amateur, and yields impure product, and leaves product behind as well. In all seriousness an acid-base extraction is just about easier than baking a cake, probably easier than cooking steak reliably to medium-rare. It's kitchen chemistry at its most kitchen-y. Even if the idea of learning a little bit of chemistry makes your anal sphincter clamp up like an oyster, you can still follow the kiddie directions in one or more teks designed for exactly that purpose anywhere on the net. And if you're willing to put in thirty minutes of learning, then you can use the adult teks and actually understand what's going on.
But either way, totally ignorant or fully theoretically mastered, and anywhere in between, there's an acid-base process written up somewhere easy to find that you can follow. This is not negotiable, not in doubt in any way: if you can master the skill of *mixing together liquids*, you can handle such an extraction. And the product is vastly superior, and you get bragging rights for doing something cool. So I won't go so far as to say that using IPA is in and of itself a flaw. I think it is silly and produces a poorer product for barely any less effort and time, but that's my opinion, not absolute truth. The lactose though has to go, there's no reason to mess up your product, it's totally weird and counterproductive to do.
