Meth I’m finding very few and very mixed answers on meth freebase

[HillbillyChef]

Is there any benefit/reason to turn crystal meth into freebase form to vaporize it? And if so, is the process the same as cooking crack?

 

[streaM Freak]

Meth is already smokable, and street meths boiling point is lower than pure meth anyway.

What purpose are you looking for?

 

[Phobos]

Is there any benefit/reason to turn crystal meth into freebase form to vaporize it? And if so, is the process the same as cooking crack?

The only reason to turn Meth in to freebase would be to separate it from any cuts and impurities and then recrystallise it.

 

[HillbillyChef]

Meth is already smokable, and street meths boiling point is lower than pure meth anyway.

What purpose are you looking for?

Just curiosity fr, didn’t know if it’d be easier to hit without burning. Saw something on Erowid about crushing it up and adding baking soda to the bowl and that kinda sparked the question.

 

[Docta]

Just curiosity fr, didn’t know if it’d be easier to hit without burning.

Would be totally the opposite, with such low vapor pressure it would be boiling off very quickly.

Saw something on Erowid about crushing it up and adding baking soda to the bowl and that kinda sparked the question.

We’d need to see that to be sure, the Erowid post I meam.
Baking soda doesn’t have an exact melting point, it kina goes through a gradual decomposition, I doubt it would taste that great.

 

[HillbillyChef]

Would be totally the opposite, with such low vapor pressure it would be boiling off very quickly.



We’d need to see that to be sure, the Erowid post I meam.
Baking soda doesn’t have an exact melting point, it kina goes through a gradual decomposition, I doubt it would taste that great.

It’s under Street knowledge far from reliable but I was curious

 

[Docta]

It’s under Street knowledge far from reliable but I was curious

As you say "far from reliable"

Baking soda and sodium carbonate aren’t the same thing.

Sodium Carbonate is washing soda (the disodium salt of carbonic acid) so there wouldn’t be the initial boil out associated with baking soda, but you would likely get formation of water at elevated temperatures as hydrogen chloride and sodium carbonate interact, making for some crackle and pop. You’d also get table salt (sodium chloride) which would’ve been fine back in the day doing it off disposable paraphernalia like foil or light globes, not so much with reusable glass pipes. I’m seeing trouble down the line getting lumps of hardened salt out of the bowl.

 

[HillbillyChef]

I'm embarrassed as a chef not making the clear distinction between sodium carbonate and bicarbonate. My bad.