oc4meee said:
that's funny because seems to me that amphetamine is coke and methamphetamine is speed.
good job kids. do some research.
and don't make fun of the username. sense of humor, kids. sense of humor.
oc4meee said:
i know exactly why methamphetamine is called methamphetamine.
i did get into med school.
i don't care what erowid lists. to me, speed is crank/ice/meth. coke is coke.
amphetamine has a high variability rate in patient studies, so don't group it as "closer to"... perhaps chemically, but not in terms of the experience.
In chemistry, compounds with similar structures are logical named similarly. E.g methane,ethane,octane all have Carbon-Carbon single bonds. similarly, compounds with a NH2 binded to a carbon are called amines. Amphetamine, is a type of amine, and
methamphetamine is an amphetamine with a methyl (CH3) group binded to it. Because their structure is so similar, they have similar effects on the CNS (the extra methyl group makes it ~30% stronger). There isn't really a way to tell whether the little bag of white powder you bought on the street which people call
speed contains amphetamine, or its methyl brother, or even crushed up white chalk. Ahhh isn't the black market wonderful...
Cocaine on the other hand, is a tropane alkaloid which has a very different structure to amines (nitrogen binded to 2 aliphatic rings). Therefore, it has very different effects on the CNS compared to amphetamines. Compare sugar to aspartame (an artificial sweetener), they both taste sweet, but sweet in a uniquely different way.
Now, again thanks to the effects of prohibition, "street" interpretations of illicit drugs differ wildly between locations. For example, here in New Zealand crystallised methamphetamine is called crack. Most of the users on this site know of crack as freebase cocaine. No one is wrong, and no one is right. just different way of interpreting things. To english speakers we know the colour red is called red, but a french speaker would say that's nonsense, it is rouge! Now who is right?
hehehe i sorta got carried away with this post, oh well maybe someone may benefit from it... :D