U.S. Border Protection Intercepts 520 Pounds of Chemicals En Route INTO Mexico

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A recent U.S. drug bust shows that trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border is a two-way street.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Los Angeles said Thursday they intercepted 520 pounds of a chemical used in illegal drugs like methamphetamine and ecstasy -- contraband caught not while it was coming into the United States from Mexico but while it was traveling south out of the U.S.

The meth component was being sent from China to drug traffickers in Mexico.

The chemical, methylamine hydrochloride, was discovered in August at an air cargo facility at Los Angeles International Airport, the agency said. Judging by the shipment's size, it could have produced 330 pounds of the drug methamphetamine.


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[23536]

they're making P2P meth

Judging by the shipment's size, it could have produced 330 pounds of the drug methamphetamine.

520 pounds of methylamine [HCl] will get you 2500 1450 pounds of methamphetamine (theoretical yield), so I'm not sure where they get the 330 lb figure from. Surely the yield is higher than 13% 23%

 

[The Network]

Holy shit that's a lot.

 

[skillet]

520 pounds of methylamine will get you 2500 pounds of methamphetamine (theoretical yield), so I'm not sure where they get the 330 lb figure from. Surely the yield is higher than 13%

You use an excess of methylamine to ensure all the (more expensive) P2P reacts, Shulgin uses a 3x excess to make MDMA and gets around 60% yield, which is about 20% based on the methylamine. I'd guess they could probably get close to 50% based on methylamine with a bit of tweaking (ahem ) the procedure, so up to 700lbs or so.

 

[sekio]

Or they could be using it to make any number of much more fun drugs like e.g. ketamine.

That's probably a pipe dream, but still...

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Why meth and not chemicals that could benefit society? :/ The answer is money of course. If only, if only.

 

[23536]

You use an excess of methylamine to ensure all the (more expensive) P2P reacts, Shulgin uses a 3x excess to make MDMA and gets around 60% yield, which is about 20% based on the methylamine. I'd guess they could probably get close to 50% based on methylamine with a bit of tweaking (ahem ) the procedure, so up to 1200lbs or so.

thanks! (again)

 

[scureto1]

Why meth and not chemicals that could benefit society? :/ The answer is money of course. If only, if only.

It can be used to make MDMA, too! Although I doubt that's what they were going to do with it.

 

[severely etarded]

It can be used to make MDMA, too! Although I doubt that's what they were going to do with it.

One of the cartels has been pressing some bomb pills that circulate the TX border areas - El Paso - Laredo - Brownsville. IDK which cartel it is, but I give them props because they have given me some very good rolls haha. Pisces/fish (retired) Heart outline (retired), and the pumas (currently circulating). You can tell they come from the same presser because they are all thin/flat with a + scored on on the back. The break in quarters :D and only around the TX border region, so obviously they come from Tamaulipas or Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

Never know....