With all due respect MR Moderator, you're talking out of your ass.
First of all, it's not a "recipe", it's a synthesis. Oatmeal cookies have a "recipe", drugs or chemicals have a synthesis.
Second of all there's no such thing as "pharmacuetical grade chemicals" just like there's no such thing as "pharmacuetical grade ecstasy" (GO, I love that fucking movie
). As someone that knows more than you about this topic, I can promise you that the HCl acid you get at the jacuzzi store is the same as the HCl acid that chemists buy from big scientific companies. They both contain one Hydrogen and one Chlorine per molecule. HCl is HCl. Are you going to tell me one brand of table salt is chemically different from another?
Third: impurities are a result of non-ideal reaction conditions, which means all the time. They may be reaction byproduct or unreacted reagent (we all remember the idea of a limiting and excess reagent from highschool chem, right?). These impurities as you call them are inherent to every reaction, and that is why we have somthing called a "workup". Workups are designed to get rid of things that arent suposed to be there. And "impurities that change the composition of the final product"? If you mean some contaminant is going to magically turn ectstasy into some other compound, you are absolutly wrong; it doesnt work that way.
"Coffee filters instead of evaporators" Whoa!! Youre talking about two totaly different techniqes. Filter paper (coffee filters do the same thing) is used to seperate a solid liquid mixture (kind of like when you make coffee in the morning). An evaporator (pot on a stove does the same thing) is used with a compleatly liquid solution. Besides, whats to keep a closet chemist from buying all the fancy lab equipment themselves? Not that its necessary.
"let the professionals make our pills"? Do you mean legitimate perfessionals? That work for DOW or 3M? Are you fucking joking me? E is an illegal drug, there are no legitimate professional manufacturers of the drug just like there are no taxes on its sale.
Besides, if you could make your own pills, you'd know whats in them, and you wouldnt be forced to have blind faith in any jack ass with a pill press and a big fucking ziplock bag of DXM.
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peace and knowledge
AcidBurn
[This message has been edited by AcidBurn (edited 04 January 2000).]