This is a little write up about a way to at least make your gear a little cleaner for IV use.
You ever take a blast then feel weird feelings or heat in your hands, feet, or asshole? Or get a lot of taste in the back of your mouth? Yeah, most of that is caused by impurities in the gear. When you IV the gear, the side effects we feel varies based on what type of impurities are infiltrating your junk.
As always, meth has a lot of junk in it. Partly due to the underground non-monitored manufacturing process, but they also put stuff in meth to make it hold it's shape longer, or to make it smoke better. Junk is actually very fragile in it's purest states, not rock-hard like we find it on the streets now a days.
Recrystallization
In chemistry, recrystallization is a technique used to purify chemicals. One technique that works well for geasr is called dual solvent recrystallization.
The whole idea here, is to dissolve your gear and re-grow it in a suitable environment. Now that's simple to say, but it can take some practice to get it down right. Every chemical is different, whether it be ibuprofen or just plain snow up in the sky, crystals grow only in an environment suitable for that particular chemical or compound.
In the real process of finding what works, Chemistry will teach you how to go about finding which solvents are suitable for what you are doing, but I am going to skip that part and just tell you which to use. One reason for teaching how to find the appropriate solvents is meant also as a teaching aid into what crystallization really is.
For meth, that environment involves acetone and isopropyl alcohol. The theory behind dual solvent recrys. is to find one solvent in which your gear is completely insoluble in no matter the temperature, that being acetone, and another solvent in which it is only soluble in when the solvent is at boiling temperature. Also the gear is barely soluble in it at room temperature, and that is isopropyl alcohol. When you boil isopropyl alcohol, you can fit all kinds of meth into it. Your going to want to try this with a quarter ounce or less (7 grams). You are going to want the appropriately sized erlenmeyer flasks with rubber stoppers for this also with a magnetic stirring heating pad. Amazon sells the magnetic heating pads for $50 cheapest. I bought that one and it did the job, you couldn't really adjust the temperature of it but it got hot enough to boil any solvents including water.
I don't mean that 91% iso you have under your sink either, for this you want fresh anhydrous or 100% isopropyl. I use lab grade 100% iso, which was about $14 for 32 ounces. Fred Meyer's also sells Swan brand 99% iso for $2 a quart, and works pretty much just as well. If there is any water in it, it's going to screw this all up. Same goes for the acetone, but just a fresh jug of KleenStrip brand acetone will do. No need to "dry" it out or try to remove any water from either if you are using new chemicals. They are cheap, for this sort of thing it is best to always use fresh chemicals. Acetone naturally absorbs moisture from the air if a container isn't sealed well. Even if you just leave the lid off while you're doing this , the can will absorb moisture.
The process.
You're going to need a magnetic heated stirring pad for mixing. Amazon sells them for $50 on up. Also while your there, I suggest picking up the appropriately sized erlenmeyer flasks with rubber stoppers sfor evaporation, and magnetic stirring sticks for this.
Turn on the heater for the pad. Set equipment aside.
I use parchment paper folded in half to smash all of my gear into powder. Then just tilt the paper up, collecting the powder in the crack, then either pour it into a container or if you can, directly into the appropriately sized flask. Just get it in the flask somehow. Stick like an inch long magnetic stirring rod in there. If you do not know how to use a magnetic stirring pad, please google it before doing this.
The idea here is to saturate boiling isopropyl alcohol with gear. To the point where it is completely dissolved, but if you were to add a little more, it would cause it to start to harden into crap. Start off with about 5 milliliters of alcohol per gram of gear. So if you have to evaporate off a little alcohol, then do so outside.
Important safety stuff. Make sure your rubber stoppers are in place when normally dissolving and mixing this stuff. Remember, Iso is heavier then air so the fumes fall to the floor, so if you have animals then no-no. I suggest wearing a face mask, I use a 3m half face mask with filters rated for the type of gas this puts off. I know this might look funny with a heated stirring pad, flasks and face masks so maybe a garage might do.
Once you find that point of saturation then you want to add up the total amount of alcohol you used in ml, and add in an equal amount of acetone to the mixture. Ideally, boiling acetone would be suitable, but since that is difficult to handle, room temp will do. Put the rubber stupper back on and swirl it around. If it fogs up and starts making crystals immediatly this is bad. You will need to reheat it and add more alcohol if this occurs, until it is dissolved again. Finding the exact ratio of acetone to alcohol is something every chemist must find what works for them. I mean there are vague averages but the amount of math you have to do, in as little of time as you have to do it, isn't worth screwing up the whole process for to find an exact number. You just have to get a feel for it as a chemist.
Some people set this mixture aside, somewhere where it will not be bumped or moved AT ALL. Crystalization takes time, and must come down close to room temp to start, and remain perfectly still while it is building them. Molecularity, the meth will only bond with the other meth in this environment. Anything that is not meth stays in the solvent mixture where most normal things remain dissolved.
Other people get a pan, put a little water in it and heat it on the stove. Not very hot. And not to much water where your flask will float in it when you set it in. Then after finding saturation with the alcohol/acetone mixture, you would place the flask into the warm water and turn off the stove. Bring the flask down to room temperature at a much slower rate. If done correctly this causes much larger, better clearer crystals.
When the crystals stop forming, take a coffee filter and put it into a funnel. Put the funnel into a glass jar or container suitable for the disposal of alcohol/acetone. Slowly pour the alcohol off through the coffee filter, trying not to break the crystals loose from the bottom of the flask yet. Once done, you take the flask with the crystals still in them and you quickly flood the bottom of the flask with fresh acetone to break the crystals loose and rinse them clean of iso. Swirl the acetone around with your new found gear, clean off that iso from the wash. Grab your coffee filter and filter your gear through it, using fresh acetone to rinse it out of the glass. If you spin the flask fast and kick up a lot of crystals into the acetone, you can pour most of them out on the first try. Take a stack of paper towels and put them outside, remove the coffee filter with your gear in it from the funnel, and put it on the stack of paper towels to dry. Once it is pretty much dry, you can pick it up, and roll it back and forth with your hands in the filter to break the crystals loose. This will help them to dry completely and more cleanly. When completely dried, you can weigh it to see how much you lost during the process. It depends on the quality of the gear, but my best numbers have been about 85-90% return on pretty clean stuff. On dirt crap, I've lost like 60%. But typically you can expect to lose between 20 and 30 percent total. So if you started with 5 grams, expect to loose at least 1. Probably of that 1 gram, say probably 30% is still quality gear just getting caught up in the mix and lost. You can hold on to the mother liquid over time and save it to the point where it is worth the effort to reclaim it, and get a lot of your missing stuff back.
Recrystallization is an art, and it takes a lot of practice to get it right. And it is worth the effort.
Good luck.
A little about me:
Anyways, the past ten years have been a fun trip. This was both a positive and sometimes negative experience. Meth is not actually my drug of choice, heroin is. But I avoid heroin because it changes who I am, makes me do things I wouldn't normally do. I won't go into to much details, but I have chosen to stay away from heroin because I love it too much.
I was an adderall kid, being first prescribed it at about age 13. I never actually saw crystal meth until I was about 19. When they took away my adderall, I just replaced it with meth. I have been using meth every day of my life since I was 21. I am 32 now. I consider myself pretty normal. I eat a lot of food, at least 3 meals a day and I actually try my best to eat healthy. I sleep every night. I hold down a job at the USPS.
When I was 18-21, I was in a program called drug court. I am sure many of you have heard of it. It's like probation, just somewhat more strict. Anyways, when I was 19, they told me I couldn't take m ADHD meds anymore because they were an amphetamine, even though I was getting it from a doctor who specialized in ADHD. Without my meds, I hardly could muster up the energy to get out of bed. Any sense of enthusiasm was completely shattered. I didn't really know who I was without the meds. The following 6 months were hell, and it never got any better. Using the word "depressed" doesn't quite explain how I felt.
Then one day, a friend who I had met in the drug court program introduced me to methamphetamine. I started out snorting it at first. The first time I tried it, it was like a light bulb came back on in my head, one that had been dead for 6 months. I saw no reason to not further investigate this substance. I just needed it.
At first, I did let it get me into a little trouble, because the drug really had control of me, I didn't have control of it. I complained about heroin changing me earlier, well meth did the same thing at first. Although with meth, it's not really the meth that causes the bad decision making, it is the lack of taking care of ourselves like sleeping, eating etc. that can contribute to poor decision making. I was staying up for days without eating much more than the occasional banana or coffee.
Eventually, I grew up and sort of took control of my addiction. I know with addiction, there is no control. If you're a true addict, the first step in recovery is that (we admit we were powerless over drugs—that our lives had become unmanageable.) This is true, but we still have to take responsibility and make choices in our lives, even in active addiction. So I did my best to not let it effect my decision making, and I controlled my use of the substance daily down to the milligram. I became a maintenance user, and used only in the mornings, well for the most part, so that I could sleep at night. Most of the good sleep I got came in the form of Xanax, or Valium, but it was sleep. I found alcohol was not good for sleep. My father told me when I was young, alcohol helps you fall asleep, not stay asleep. I don't know if it effects everyone like that or not, but for my father and I, it helps us fall asleep but we would only stay asleep for a couple of hours, if that.
Skipping a few years ahead since most of it was routine anyways. I started shooting meth at 22, and didn't look back for a lot of years. This was my only route of administration for a solid 5 years. Every single day, didn't miss a beat. Never took a break. I gave up shooting meth a few years ago. It wasn't worth ruining my veins for. I continued to smoke and swallow it.
I had early on somewhere I think from this girl, said she saw someone poured meth into a liquid and it didn't dissolve. I didn't believe her at first. I figured it was soluble in anything. Then, one day I heard someone talking about cleaning their gear. So I researched it, and researched it some more, through trial and error, and years and years of practicing, I have learned the art of recrystallization.
