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Cocaine Recrystallizing Coke out of methanol

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ganandorf

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Hi, I am trying to recrystallize salt from methanol. This is to make "mother of pearl" cocaine flakes. I am having trouble. This is exactly what I did:

I dissolved a gram of coke into 20 ml of methanol (the bottle I have says methyl hydrate but I read online that it's the same thing as methanol). Then I made a hot water bath. SWIM put a pyrex dish into a pot of boiling water. Using an eye dropper, SWIM dropped a few drops into the pyrex beaker. I expected the methanol to evaporate almost immediately, leaving me with a thin flakey crystal that can easily be scraped off. But at best, I is left with a small piece of crust, that isn't shiny at all, that is impossible to scrape off the pyrex dish. What is wrong?

I am following a recipe I found in the book, "the pleasures of cocaine". Word for word, the recipe goes:


"Dissolve cocaine hydrochloride in methanol, using 20 ml of solvent for each gram of cocaine. Place a pyrex casserole in a water bath and deposite drops of the solution - one at a time - on different portions of the bottom of the casserole. The methanol will evaporate almost immediately, leaving a thin, flaky crust on the glass. When the entire bottom has been covered, this is scraped up with a single-edged razor blade and collected. This process is repeated until all of the solution has been evaporated and all of the flakes collected"
 
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Your cocaine probably isn't that pure, I would suggest. In any case, the method you describe doesn't remove any impurities, you end up with exactly what you put in, albeit perhaps in a slightly different form. This process is very much "garbage in, garbage out". In any case, if this is an old-skool book about drugs, they tend to have very shaky and inaccurate science in my experience. If you're looking to clean up your cocaine, Le Junk's threads are useful, a wash with anhydrous acetone is probably a better way to improve the quality of your coke adding and then evaporating a solvent.
 
Thanks for the reply. This is SWIM's problem: SWIM has a buddy who sells. SWIM has done acetone washes on his buddies coke before to improve it, before his buddy sells it (his buddy figures a better quality product would drive in more customers). Though the resulting product is better, it lacks the crystals that buddy's customers rave about, thus making it more difficult to sell. How can SWIM do the acetone wash AND have the crystals form on the outside as well as on the inside of the mass of coke, as well as have the mass have flaky layers? SWIM does the acetone wash just as Le Junk describes, except for putting it under the heat lamp for a half hour to dry. SWIM just lets it dry out by itself and covers it with the filter so that no air gets to it

EDIT: The coke SWIM was using was actually good. Pearly and shiny. But there's always room for improvement
 
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So what you're asking -- just to help your "buddy," of course -- how to make cocaine more sellable?
 
Not my buddy. SWIM's buddys. Buddy's customers like the acetone washed product, but presentation counts for a lot as well. Buddy's product is shiny and scaly, and is good, but not the best out there. After the acetone wash, there is a noticeable improvement in quality, but there is barely any shininess (especially on the inside) and it is not layered scales.
 
I imagine that you'd be best off basifying a solution of the cocaine in some solvent and then crashing it out again with acid, but I'm not going to pretend I'm certain. btw, we don't use SWIM on this site.
 
No SWIM is allowed here. Dissolving cocaine in methanol and evaporating the methanol back off isn't recrystallisation.

Also we're not here to help you or your "buddy" make your coke more saleable
 
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