Canada - Life in the lab: former ecstasy 'cook' details his work

[S.J.B.]

"CALGARY — Well educated, yet feeling aimless and suffering from low self-esteem, Adam decided to pursue a clandestine career that would earn him hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Read the full story here.

 

[skillet]

Good guy MDMA cook, apart from the waste dumping, but I guess there's not much choice.

 

[MattPsy]

Indeed. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't. An average person can hardly take a mixture of solvents, catalysts, reeking unreacted ketone, etc to a chem disposal service, where their name will be recorded. That said, you can maybe put it in a sealed drum and dump it somewhere far away, and then notify authorities anonymously.

 

[shpongled1234]

I find it kind of odd the chemist has no idea about PMMA or how it gets in plls. I would assume someone who made thousands of kgs of MDMA would know that PMMA is the result of using anethole instead of safrole as your starting material. Also I cant believe he would have chemicals shipped directly to his lab.