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Cocaine Modern day purification process that works?

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westcoast250

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Good day folks.

Sadly up here in the great white north of Canadakistan it seems largely that the supply of coke has gone to shit.

I suspect it's largely Boric acid and levamisole. Probably some other minor stuff as well. Likely lido or benzocaine in some, which is obvious by the intense and instant throat freeze.

Has anyone found any methods for cleaning these cuts from coke?

I've looked but it seems like most processes are geared towards other cuts.

Cheers!
 
From my research this far it seems that dissolving coke freebase in hexane and washing with water 5 or so times is the most successful / easy to do. Apparently this will remove most of the Levamisole.

This might bode well for the boric acid as well as it is apparently relatively insoluble in hexane. Though not being a chemist I'll have to look into what happens to boric acid that is present when coke HCl is converted to freebase.

Also sounds as though the hexane will remove procaine base, and benzocaine base along with the Levamisole.

So as a starting point I'm thinking. A few acetone washes of the HCL, dry and convert to freebase.
Finely powder and do a few water washes.
Then dissolve in hexane. Filter anything that doesn't dissolve. Transfer to new container.
Wash the hexane with water by adding distilled water in a 5:1 ratio water to hexane to the container and stirring, agitating or shaking.

Seperate water & hexane layers retain the hexane and repeat 5x.
Evaporate the hexane to see what's left.

Dissolve in acetone and bubble with HCl gas generator.

This is as far as I've gotten so far.

Thoughts?
 
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Oh, that’s super cool. How expensive? How big/heavy? If you get one, definitely tell us all about it. I enjoy the puzzle of reading spectroscopy charts, but if you can snag the data that would be very efficient.
 
5k for the device. It's very small pocket size. It pairs with app on smartphone. If I remember correctly it's 3200/yr for access to their database that the app uses.
 
westcoast250 said:
From my research this far it seems that dissolving coke freebase in hexane and washing with water 5 or so times is the most successful / easy to do. Apparently this will remove most of the Levamisole.

This might bode well for the boric acid as well as it is apparently relatively insoluble in hexane. Though not being a chemist I'll have to look into what happens to boric acid that is present when coke HCl is converted to freebase.

Also sounds as though the hexane will remove procaine base, and benzocaine base along with the Levamisole.

So as a starting point I'm thinking. A few acetone washes of the HCL, dry and convert to freebase.
Finely powder and do a few water washes.
Then dissolve in hexane. Filter anything that doesn't dissolve. Transfer to new container.
Wash the hexane with water by adding distilled water in a 5:1 ratio water to hexane to the container and stirring, agitating or shaking.

Seperate water & hexane layers retain the hexane and repeat 5x.
Evaporate the hexane to see what's left.

Dissolve in acetone and bubble with HCl gas generator.

This is as far as I've gotten so far.

Thoughts?
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TIL there is now a method to remove levamisole. Amazing. Would be nice if someone could confirm that.
 
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fairnymph said:
Oh yeah, that’s very reasonable - the access is where they’re really making the money! I definitely wouldn’t pay for that.
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No me neither. I'm big on loopholes and workarounds. I would pay for it for a year and capture the data coming and going and create my own database or something. Great product though. Sadly with their pricing model lots of small harm reduction organizations can't afford it.

At that price they should give you the device and charge for the service
 
fairnymph said:

Looks like it should work very well, although there are simpler methods if you don’t have all of that equipment, particularly for precipitating the hcl salt at the end.

Please let us know how it goes!
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Other methods for Lev & Boric acid? I'm all ears?

Also HCl generator is very easy to improvise.
Muriatic acid in a jar, small tubing attached at the lid. Drop some balls of aluminum foil in.
(Google this for sure but I'm fairly certain I remember it correctly)
Use a glass straw on he tubing to bubble the HCL into acetone. Lest you dissolve the tubing.
 
Can anyone tell me what happens to boric acid when based? This is the only part I'm struggling with
 
westcoast250 said:
Other methods for Lev & Boric acid? I'm all ears?

Also HCl generator is very easy to improvise.
Muriatic acid in a jar, small tubing attached at the lid. Drop some balls of aluminum foil in.
(Google this for sure but I'm fairly certain I remember it correctly)
Use a glass straw on he tubing to bubble the HCL into acetone. Lest you dissolve the tubing.
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The average user is not going to go through all of those steps, & can skip the acetone rinse. But mostly, it’s just the bubbling that is going to be beyond most people.
 
fairnymph said:
The average user is not going to go through all of those steps, & can skip the acetone rinse. But mostly, it’s just the bubbling that is going to be beyond most people.
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An acetone wash would work. It can remove a lot of cuttings. It's quick and easy, why not?
westcoast250 said:
Good day folks.

Sadly up here in the great white north of Canadakistan it seems largely that the supply of coke has gone to shit.

I suspect it's largely Boric acid and levamisole. Probably some other minor stuff as well. Likely lido or benzocaine in some, which is obvious by the intense and instant throat freeze.

Has anyone found any methods for cleaning these cuts from coke?

I've looked but it seems like most processes are geared towards other cuts.

Cheers!
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May I ask which part of Canada? Because depending on the region I might be able to provide some info regarding cuttings of cocaine in that region.
 
sHR00m said:
An acetone wash would work. It can remove a lot of cuttings. It's quick and easy, why not?

May I ask which part of Canada? Because depending on the region I might be able to provide some info regarding cuttings of cocaine in that region.
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It’s probably not removing much the hexane step won’t remove anyway. I fully support people doing thorough purification. But we also need to keep in mind ways to streamline these processes for those who will only do the bare minimum.

Most IV users won’t even use a wheel/micron filter.
 
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