OND43X
Bluelighter
Methamphetamine is quite simple in terms of chemistry. Even acquiring the chemicals and glassware is straight forward. You can buy everything you need from eBay, so it's surprising there isn't more of a "scene" for methamphetamine over here in the UK. Especially given how easy it is to acquire the precursors and general ease to manufacture.
The 'methamphetamine is easy to make/easy to manufacture' etc is abit of a urban myth to be honest.... That and the myths and misinformation around the 'shake n bake' method and the meth it produces.
Firstly it is true but really its not true that methamphetamine is easy to make/manifacture. The reason i say this is because on paper there are straight forward routes for making methamphetamine, usually only afew chemicals are needed and meth can be made without the need for glassware or lab equipment.
Then there is a method where methamphetamine can be made just by adding the mixture into drink bottles and shaking. Looking at it from that perspective then yeah methamphetamine is easy... BUT....
On the street (well at least here in australia) id say 90% of the 'methamphetamine' market these days would be in crystal/ice form, for the batch to be sold as 'ice' or crystal meth it would need to be first and foremost translucent crystals that are smokeable, doesn't burn and recrystallises instantly with damp cloth.
Ice purity sold on the street has at least 40% purity (and upwards of 90+%) but the 40% is really 90% cut down with MSM etc thats chemically stable and has similar properties as methamp, the purity of methamp after synth i think would need to be atleast 70-75% purity for it to be sold as ice/crystal meth, the lower the purity from production the more left over impurities, this affects the batches acidity level which affects re-crystalising, burning etc...
The lower purity synth reduces will cause the crystals to colour and therefore burn. Impurities with different properties to meth reduces the gap between methamps melting and burning points etc etc.
D Methamphetamine (dextro), is the best, euphoric effects, easy formation of crystals.
DL Methamphetamine(racemic), is good but not as good as D Methamphetamine. More speedy less eurphoric effects (effects depend on the dextro/racemic combination). Only a very very skilled cook can form and bind crystals with racemic methamp.
L Methamphetamine, no stimulating effects
Pseudoephedrine is L (isomer) methamphetamine. If done properly during the chemical reaction process the L methamphetamine will turn into D methamphetamine.
Without the skills in chemistry, without the knowledge on how to properly clean and purify the precursors and chemicals (for example the knowledge on how to produce clean and pure iodine crystalls) aswell as proper materials and glassware(in proper i mean actual glassware and not just an old tea pot lol), without the experience and practice at making batches and refining their method for the best reaction, without the connections for good quality chemicals 'anyone' can shake and bake some methamphetamine, but it will not look like or have the effects anyrhing similar to the crystal meth purchased off the street, and it wont for (many trial and error batches) a long time!