"Methamphetamine originally comes from ephedra, which is a plant." –Dr. Hilda Childa, Ph.D.

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"Methamphetamine originally comes from ephedra, which is a plant. Cocaine comes from coca …"

[ Fentanyl ] " … They made opium illegal. And so people started making more refined and intensely potent versions of opium …"

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How fentanyl relates to opium: https://www.bluelight.org/community/threads/945138/

 

[Deleted member 554582]

Ye right...I mention in my older post somewhere...I was down south a few years ago...in old poppy places that once upon a time till the end of the 90-,it's peasants grow a lot poppies....for a pharmaceutical factory close by....well this is long gone,but I notice there a vast field with naturally grown ephedra plant...I recognize it right in the moment and pick some...got to chew a little bit...and after a while i was in high alert mode..a natural speed some sort...lot more powerful than coffee.....a strong shrub indeed....but effects diminish very quickly if u used in everyday basis

 

[Keif' Richards]

Yup, pretty fun facts to hit with that one guy who is always like "well Cannabis is a plant, thats why it is harmless. Mother nature would never harm us".

Drug i think comes from German or Latin and literally translates to "dried plant matter" more or less.

It is my belief that ever step away from nature that we take a chemical, the more potentially harmful it becomes.

With that being said, unlike Morphine or Cocaine which are naturally found inside Poppy and Coca respectfully, the Amphetamines are in fact semi-synthetic in nature. It requires the reduction of Ephedrine to become Methamphetamine.

I look at the Opioids out there on the street right now and you can see. We rarely if ever make anything truly better than what nature has. Tis man's existential curse.

 

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We rarely if ever make anything truly better than what nature has. Tis man's existential curse.

Shulgin 

"Of all past joys, LSD, mescaline, cannabis, peyote, this ranks number one. Normally I have no color effects with mescaline. A dynamic experience. Feels good, too." [#68 DOM]

 

[Deleted member 576750]

this was also an observed pattern during alcohol prohibition in the US. large amounts of beer and eine were hard to smuggle so people started turning to distillation to get more dollar value per volume smuggled