Ether, hydrochloric acid, and potassium cyanide are in it.
No, they're not "in it". Drug syntheses are not food recipes. Cooking involves heating and combining ingredients in a specific way and then serving all of those ingredients together, typically. Organic chemistry uses reagents and catalysts on certain precursors to build or reduce them into new target chemicals. And THEN those chems are purified and isolated to over 99% purity in the context of industry. Ether is a useful non-polar solvent; it's removed from the end product. Hydrochloric acid is common; when combined with sodium it's table salt. When bonded to a drug oil, it makes it a water-soluble crystal salt. And it's the acid in your stomach. Potassium cyanide is used as photographic fixer in darkrooms, among other common uses. There are ~50,000 tons of KCN produced each year, that's how common and useful it is, despite being poisonous if consumed by humans (many things fit this description). It's used in a reaction so its atoms can be bonded into another compound which is cleaned to remove unreacted traces of KCN.
I have heard that embalming fluid is also used in making it.
Myth. Fact-check stuff, please.
Those ingredients are scary.
They're not ingredients. They are chemical reagents. Big difference. Don't fall for that anti-drug, scare-tactic propaganda.
Good luck with drug legalization in America or the UK.
Thanks, bud. I'm not in the UK; I'm in the US like you. And decriminalization comes first, then legalization. It's a very challenging goal, and it's made worse when people spread false information and sensationalized stories about certain drugs deemed "bad", oftentimes as the result of shoddy, unethical journalism and rushed legislation by lawmakers with a poor understanding of biochemistry. When people don't fact check but simply repeat shit they've heard, these kinds of regretful acts of ignorance can lead to legislation that ruins people's lives for no good reason.
The Democats have declared war on pain patients.
Democats? Liberal felines? Lol.
Before you start the political blame game, please know that I don't like bipartisan politics, I don't like either U.S. political party, and I find it agitating when topics are unnecessarily politicized. Democrats and Republicans are just as frustratingly stupid, inept, and prone to gridlock and getting nothing done on Capital Hill. It's not a football game. Let's not forget that motherfuckers like Nixon, Reagan, Rockefeller, Anslinger, and Kissinger dragged us into this prohibition nightmare to begin with. Furthermore, Big Pharma pushed Oxycontin on the public in a New Jack City manner, and they of course lobby the GOP heavily each year. The aforementioned prohibitionists are all Republicans, obviously, but
both parties are chock full of incompetent, bribe-taking, "super PAC"-exploiting, Gerrymandering, filibustering, inflexible, ineffective, overpaid, selfish drama queens who don't give a fuck about the American people much less the rest of the humans on the planet, or even if they do, they're too embroiled in their own interests and us-versus-them mentality to do much good in any office.
I know this first hand. The left as well as the weĺl as some on the right now dictate what doctors can prescribe.
I understand your fear. This is why I oppose drug prohibition. It's a line of thinking that seeks to criminalize and punish people under the guise of protection even at the expense of those who genuinely need proper medication.
I am fucked when my cirrhosis and pancreas troubles get worse.
Hopefully not; keep your head up. I'm sorry you're going through this. I would consider getting a second opinion on this matter, and then maybe consider moving somewhere with more amenable drug laws and fewer restrictions on doctors.
The UK according to people on here, say they are upping the war on drugs; yes I am aware of Scotland.
Well some states in the U.S. are decriminalizing things and controlling them sometimes even. It's not all doom and gloom, but progress is slow. That's why I wish people wouldn't say terrible things about certain drugs as if it's somehow the drug's fault. It's really sad to see.
The first thing that needs to be done is get rid of politicians telling doctors how much they can prescribe to pain patients. I live in a blue state and it gets worse and worse.
Unfortunately pharmaceutical companies and doctors are incentivized by profit, and whenever there's a profit incentive, history has shown over and over, ethics need to be examined, b/c people will prioritize profit over their neighbors' wellbeing. Not sure why you think the GOP is any better on drug policy. Meanwhile, every state is trying to stop pill farms from forming with this brainless legislation, red or blue.
What do I do when the pain is too much? Not many options, it could be solved and my doctor would write me a lot more but thanks to our democrat governor and President Biden I suffer.
It would not matter if you were in a red state with a Republican governor and Donald Trump as president. Laws are passed by Congress; and both political parties posture as if they're tough on drugs and tough on crime. Trump was talking about firing missiles at suspected drug labs in Mexico, regardless of if he has Mexico's approval or not.
I despise both sides. Biden is an ancient ghost fart of a crooked politician. His dumbass wants to ban menthol cigarettes FFS, but he won't do it before the coming election bc he's afraid of losing black voters. What a racist asshole. Don't even get me started on Hunter Biden. And at the same time, Trump and his kids are a bunch of criminal fucks, too. And besides, doctors all across the country are afraid to prescribe pain medication; it's not just in blue states. Part of it is a fear of lawsuits, and also pressure from their malpractice insurance providers. Republicans have pressure to look tough on crime and they're traditionally real Nazis when it comes to matters of drug prohibition. The effort to curb fentanyl overdoses is bipartisan; let's please not cloud the issue with "everything is the fault of (XYZ political party)" politics.
Open up the border and here comes the fentanyl.
The border being "open" or not pertains to immigration issues. This is a separate issue from Mexican cartels and other TCOs who smuggle drugs into the United States. You're conflating issues out of a desperation to blame 'liberals' for your problems as if the political party matters.
The cartels biggest money maker was weed.
They're ridiculously bad at drugs, aren't they? When they provided our weed, it was fucking awful garbage full of seeds and stems and had low THC levels. The cocaine they provide is almost always some overpriced, cut, re-rocked bullshit. Meth was good when they made it from ephedrine for a while, but when the feds cut off their Chinese supply of
Ma Huang, they started making racemic P-2-P meth and it took them almost a year to figure out how to iteratively resolve the isomers and convert the l- into the d-isomer. And even then, they don't always convert but so much of the isomers, another quality drop. They decide to punch out some fake oxycontin with fentanyl-laced "dirty 30s" but they fucked that up by not milling the ingredients sufficiently leading to the "chocolate chip effect" in the end product – dangerously inconsistent fentanyl pills were the result like the one that killed one of my best friends a couple years ago.
The UK seems to be going in the same direction only no pot legalization. There seems to tougher drug sentences there too.
No, their statutes are not as bad as the U.S. on the vast majority of substances. You should fact check these things. US drug sentencing on the federal level is out of control. For example, just 5 g of methamphetamine triggers a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years for first-time offenders, and 10 years if you have a prior. Five little 1g shards = 5-10 years in the US. None of the western world's statutes can compare. Oh and also, 50 grams – that's less than 2 ounces – fetches a 10 - 20 year mandatory minimum. That's absurd.
I'll be one of the unnamed trip reporters
