This will be the one thread I allow any talk about the hive .. yes, Strike started the hive based upon the books she wrote, but it drew in a number of advanced chemistry geeks - several of which are VERY knowledgable about about the "advanced synths" - they speak of LSD and fentanyl synths like they are making cookies .. anyway, I am not going to name any names, but one of the chemists posted some notes about a "hypothetical" synth that could permit a 'small-scale' production and yeild enough fentanyl that after a weeks work, and post-cut, one man could have one metric ton of heroin (well, fentanyl actually) .. there was a second poster who REALLY got into that discussion, and while 95% of the board had NO IDEA what they were talking about, the thread carried on and got semi-serious as for people talking about how one could put theory into practice ...
The chemistry is difficult to say the least, and there are several points where breathing the air can be fatal if you don't use extreme caution, but someone with the lab experience can do it ..
The person who I think this might be was a fellow who LATER posted to ANOTHER forum asking about where one could purchase Narcan.. I didn't put the two together until later, at what time I talked to the guy about some un-related stuff - the first name is correct, and we were supposed to meet at DefCon a couple years back ..
We talked about MPTP as I was simply interested in what happened - he had done his homework.. for those who missed the story, some guy in Texas was trying to cook up some custom Demerol analog and ended up making MPTP which caused a number of people on the west cost to suffer from Parkinsons disease (it's often confused with MDMA which does NOT cause Parkinsons)..
I e-mailed the guy to see if there is a chance it's not the same person...
He had the world in his hands, and lost it all do MARIJUANA! Kids, don't smoke pot and you could someday be swimming in a pool of synthetic smack (literally)..
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