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Harm Reduction Resources / Doctor Shulgins perspective.
« Last post by Shapeshifter32 on December 19, 2023, 08:22:27 AM »
      "That's the hope. There's no avoiding the fact that a lot of idiots who don't know diddley-squat about chemistry are going to go to work to make some of those drugs-the easier ones for sale on the street. And people are going to take them at parties and use them in stupid, irresponsible ways, the same way they use alcohol. All kinds of people read the journals I publish in. At least, psychedelics are not physically addictive and most people find them anything but psychologically addictive. My hope is that, here and there, someone with a good mind and heart - uses one of these tools and perhaps begins to understand something he didn't under- stand before. And that there may be a few with the courage and ability to write about what they've learned, so that others can read and begin to think. And so on and so on." PIHKAL

     
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News / Re: AI and automation in the Lab.
« Last post by Baba_McKensey on December 13, 2023, 09:42:05 PM »
You got an extra million dollars you can loan me to build a robot?  I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a robot today.
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News / AI and automation in the Lab.
« Last post by Shapeshifter32 on December 12, 2023, 11:42:18 PM »
     I saw this earlier and thought you all may find it interesting. Perhaps one day we could start an automated Hive with AI Wasps and BEE'S!

     hxxps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03956-w
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News / Re: Attorney accused of manufacturing hallucinogens!!!
« Last post by Lipbalm on December 10, 2023, 09:43:03 PM »
All synthetic freebase DMT I have smelled smells very very similar to pure tryptamine straight from the lab. Both near pure.
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News / Re: Attorney accused of manufacturing hallucinogens!!!
« Last post by brb5min on December 08, 2023, 08:47:11 PM »
I believe that synthed DMT has less smell than the extracted one. I would be quicker to smell residue of recrystallization solvent than the smell of synthed DMT.

xdragon, care to help a fellow newbie and share your workup with DMT oxalate? Do you use chloroform/DCM to extract from reaction mixture, and salt it out of this DCM? Or do I have to evap DCM first, crystallize from heptane and only then salt it out for rex? At which step should I attempt salting DMT out, I am not sure.
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News / Re: Attorney accused of manufacturing hallucinogens!!!
« Last post by xdragon on December 08, 2023, 08:19:51 PM »
From the video, "DMT has no odour" ;D ;D ;D

I've never noticed a smell with my freebase DMT, not even when vapourising it - although I have to admit my nose isn't the best. I shared this observation with a very meticulous tryptamine chemist, and they claim the same. They speculated the typical smell of DMT described as floral may stem from an impurity carried over along when extracting from plant matter. I never extracted from plant matter myself. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of other people claim that their synthetic DMT has a smell, among them aniracetam, whose analytical capabilities I very much trust.

I wonder what's the matter. I know I definitely did not purify my DMT as meticulous as aforementioned tryptamine chemist has, but it was crashed out as oxalate, the freebase recrystallised from heptane and the product free of impurities on TLC.
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News / Re: Attorney accused of manufacturing hallucinogens!!!
« Last post by spice on December 08, 2023, 02:59:42 AM »
Better Call Saul.......wait....
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News / Re: Happy Chemist's day
« Last post by aes256 on December 08, 2023, 01:47:26 AM »
Oh I missed it :(

I will celebrate it today though with some chemistry :)

I used to skateboard as a teenager and loved it, lived for it even. You've probably come across edgy slogans like "skate or die", "skateboarding is not a crime". Maybe the chemistry community could take their lead from this once marginalized cliche:

"synth or dye"
"reductive amination is not a crime"
"operate in a fume hood and/or with adequate PPE or die!!"

They really roll off the tongue dunt they ;D
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News / Re: Attorney accused of manufacturing hallucinogens!!!
« Last post by aes256 on December 08, 2023, 01:21:34 AM »
From the video, "DMT has no odour" ;D ;D ;D
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News / New fungus discovered!
« Last post by Shapeshifter32 on December 02, 2023, 08:15:03 PM »
hxxps://phys.org/news/2023-11-fungus-arrakis-species-dune-giant.html

     Anybody know what the active components of melange are? Tried growing it but my sandworms died
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