Stimulants taste like paint thinner

[4DQSAR]

during salting hydrochloric acid gas is bubbled through the solution causing conversion of the amphetamine base oil to a solid salt as it precipitates and crystallizes out of solution. there can also be another recrystallization step after also usually in a mix of polar/nonpolar solvents so again if not dried properly solvent can remain.

What you are supposed to do is to vacuum distill off all the solvent then add sufficient ethanol to 'wet' the product and vacuum distill again.

I mean, that's how most low MW basic (amine containing) medicines are prepared.

But I think we can all imagine that the extra wetting and distilling is going to take more time and more effort and you will get slightly less (but purer) product.

With street drugs, the only QC is 'what the market will accept'. Hence all manner of shite being in the stuff.

I always tell people that if they REALLY want to stop taking street drugs - go find some images of labs. Breaking Bad is laughably wrong. Of course pictures don't give you the odours which range from choking to sickening to downright odd. But never good.

 

[Rectify]

IME The Best Way To Get Good Drugs Is DON'T BE A SNITCH.

 

[deficiT]

MDMA -----> BDD

 

[emkee_reinvented]

I always tell people that if they REALLY want to stop taking street drugs - go find some images of labs. Breaking Bad is laughably wrong. Of course pictures don't give you the odours which range from choking to sickening to downright odd. But never good.

The Lab they busted in the little village my Granny lives, would give you that image.
It was a spread production proces, so this place made the dl-Amphetamine free-base.
Location a old Barn/ Shed, dusty and dirty, probably exactly how it was left.

They rent it, put some drums of highly toxic and/ or explosive reagent s.
Some oversized pressure looking like pans, oversized meaning for giants.
Old table some chair s and a lot of old trash.

On a different location, they make the Sulphate. But when the Police checked,
RC-labs i wonder how they looked, no picture was added. Didn t look for it.
But 1/2 or 1/3 made both RCs and MDMA/ Speed. So legal and illegal drug s.
Cop s had to leave 1/2 behind.
[the RCs, typically NL. Can t imagine that happening anywhere else]

Don t get it anyway, Cops never keep to the Law, so this smells as bullshit.

Wonder how these did look like, as professional Labs. As they where registered and could expect a visit from some gouvernement agency. So knew if they would have to have certain standard s. Not a dusty old barn. Gonna check if the pic s are released.

Some criminal s give total shit. Was made clear when a MDMA lab in a residential area exploded. Causing many wounded and also a few death s.

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

Who would know the taste of pain-thinner is beyond me,
we wore mask s working with it.

100% with you on this.

I've had tins of it open in the back of a HOT Van, i nearly passed out & it made me feel so sick.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

100% with you on this.

I've had tins of it open in the back of a HOT Van, i nearly passed out & it made me feel so sick.

The smell is by itself enough to deter from tasting, and toxic as hell.

I wrote Pain-Thinner. By accident created a new word we could use for things like Paracetamol or Ibuprofen for pain after heavy surgery. The medical standpoint in NL.