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    The document provides instructions for synthesizing methamphetamine using phenyl-2-propanone as a precursor. It describes obtaining phenyl-2-propanone from university stock rooms, as it was commonly stored before being regulated. Detailed reaction steps and reagents are listed to produce methamphetamine hydrochloride through refluxing, extraction, concentration, and bubbling with HCl gas. The author warns that methamphetamine ruined their life through addiction and health issues, and advises extreme caution around dabbling in CNS stimulants.

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    The document provides instructions for synthesizing methamphetamine using phenyl-2-propanone as a precursor. It describes obtaining phenyl-2-propanone from university stock rooms, as it was commonly stored before being regulated. Detailed reaction steps and reagents are listed to produce methamphetamine hydrochloride through refluxing, extraction, concentration, and bubbling with HCl gas. The author warns that methamphetamine ruined their life through addiction and health issues, and advises extreme caution around dabbling in CNS stimulants.

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    The document provides instructions for synthesizing methamphetamine using phenyl-2-propanone as a precursor. It describes obtaining phenyl-2-propanone from university stock rooms, as it was commonly stored before being regulated. Detailed reaction steps and reagents are listed to produce methamphetamine hydrochloride through refluxing, extraction, concentration, and bubbling with HCl gas. The author warns that methamphetamine ruined their life through addiction and health issues, and advises extreme caution around dabbling in CNS stimulants.

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    Methamphetamine synthesis:

    The major problem with methedrine synthesis is procuring the precursors.


    Phenyl-2-propanone is the most direct precursor to my knowledge and is
    (unfortunately?) at Schedule III controlled substance. It has no
    pharmacological activity and yet the DEA saw fit to regulate it around 1975.
    The first synthesis I will give uses this in as a starting material. Actually
    it is still possible to find this substance tucked away in store rooms in many
    universities that presumably purchased the compound before it was controlled.
    A friend of mine came across 500 mls made by Eastman Kodak in the stock room at
    Princeton. I purchased 100 mls when I lived in England many years ago and did
    my first run using it. The reaction can be completed in about 6 hours giving
    about 60% yield; I am a biologist, not a chemist so someone who knew what they
    were doing could probably improve on that.
    Reagents:

    1-phenyl-2-propanone 20 gm

    EtOH 100 ml

    Methylamine 40% in water 100 mls

    Aluminum foil 20 gm

    Mercury II Chloride 150 mg

    Reflux above mixture with stirring for two hours in 500 ml round bottom flask.
    Concentrate rxn mix under reduced pressure at room temp. Pour on to ice cold
    KOH sol'n (60 gm in about 200 mls water). At this step, big problems can
    happen. A great deal of heat is liberated. Add very *slowly* and keep in an
    ice bath. Heat will degrade your product in to god knows what and just might
    end up on the ceiling, if you are not careful.) Extract solution w/ 125 x 3 mls
    ethyl ether. Recover organic layer. Extract ether with 3N HCl 25 x 3 mls.
    Add 30 mls 6 N NaOH solution (cold) to acid solution, add more if solution is
    not very basic. Extract basic solution with 25 x 3 mls of ether. Dry over
    anhydrous sodium sulfate, filter. Rotovap. off ether (distill under reduced
    pressure if you want to get fancy but it is not absolutely necessary) and
    redissolve in anhydrous ether, 100-200 mls. Bubble dry HCl gas (made my
    dropping conc. HCl onto conc. Sulfuric acid) through mixture and methedrine HCl
    should ppt. as white fluffy powder.

    Filter off meth and repeat for second and third crop. Keep the first for
    yourself and sell the rest. The subsequent crops can be pink or purplish and
    are still effective pharmacologically but they are not very clean. I hope this
    was what you are after. If it is, drop me another line and I will give you the
    synthesis for the phenyl-2-propanone. That synthesis is much nastier, more
    dangerous and takes a lot more expertise.
    Now the pitch: Methedrine is a heinous chemical. I can handle most drugs,
    except meth. I first did this synthesis for kicks. It quickly became a lot
    more than that. I started mainlining it and things got really out of hand. I
    would up in the emergency room twice, the psych ward once, got kicked out of
    Johns Hopkins University lost my job at NIDA and very nearly killed myself and
    a bunch of other people. Actually, if you want more information, I would much
    rather talk about that-- if only to discourage.... well, maybe just to warn
    people to be *very* careful when dabbling in CNS stimulants. Speed may not
    kill but it can fuck you up very bad.

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