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Basically, to make meth, you start off with pseudoephedrine. Actually, its pseudoephedrine hydrochloride; pseudoephedrine (and some ther drugs) have different 'forms', and we want pseudoephedrine 'hydrochloride'. This is the water soluble, 'salt' form of the drug. Other forms include pseuso ephedrine sulfate, and freebase pseudoephedrine. Pseudoephedrine can bee changed from its hydrochloride form, into freebase. The freebase form is not water soluble, it is oil soluble (soluble in solvents like xylene and toluene etc.) It can bee changed back into hydrochloride too. Or even into to its sulfate form.
ANYWAY, WE WANT NEED IT IN ITS HYDROCHLORIDE FORM. Which is pretty much how you buy it any way. You probably know that it is in pharmaceutical pills desiged to relieve sinus congestion. The reason I told you about the hyrdochloride(HCl) and freebase(FB) forms is because when extracting pseudo from pills, some methods involve turning it into its freebase form, and then back into its hydrochloride form. This is called and "Acid/Base" extraction. The idea of it is to leave all the other shit ("inactives") behind.
Then we want to convert the pseudoephedrine into methamphetamine (acutally, it gets 'reduced' to methamphetamine). We are actually modifying the pseudoephedrine molecules, i.e changing their molecular form/structure. If we add pseudoephedrine to hyrdoiodic acid, and let the solution 'reflux' at !100°c for around 24 hrs, the hydriodic acid will 'reduce' the pseudo to meth.
To make this hydriodic acid, we need a mixture of water (h20, or dh20 (distilled water), Red Phosphorus (RP, obtained from matchbox/matchbook strikers) and iodine crystals(I2, purchased from somewhere (hard to get), or extracted from Iodine Tincture (which is a liquid, but you can extract the crystals from it.)
So
TO MAKE SPEED you need CLEAN pseudo ephedrine (also called pfed, or pseudo), Red Phosphorus and Iodine. And also some distilled water
So you need a single neck flask. 250ml will bee fine. And you add the pseudo ephedrine and the RP (which are both 'powders') and then dh2o. And then you slowly add iodine, which reacts with the RP to make HYDRIODIC ACID! (also called HI). The flask then has a condenser attached to its neck (a vertical glass tube, about 20mm wide and 2 ft long (although it can be different width/length)), and is then put in an 'oil bath' (submerged a few cms in a dish/pot containing oil), which is on a hotplate.
Turn on the hotplate and heat the oil to about 115°c, because you want the INTERNAL TEMP OF THE FLASK TO BE ABOUT 100°c. There is a temperature loss between the oilbath and the 'reactants' (i.e the pfed/rp/i2/dh20). At this temperature, the contents of the flask (which is a thick dark red liquid) will start to bubble, and the 'steam' coming off will rise up, into the condenser, and then it will cool down (cos its cold up there!) and it will CONDENSE back into a liquid, and drip back down into the flask. It is 'recycled'. 24hrs (even better 36 or 48hrs) is enough time to reduce the pseudoephedirne to methamphetamine in this solution of hydriodic acid.
Of course you need to add the ingredients in the right proportions. For every gram of pseudo (this is just a guide), use 0.8mLs of DISTILLED water (which u can buy ofcourse), 1.2-1.5gms of iodine, and 0.4-0.75gms of Red Phosphorus. If you have real lab grade (LG) red phos, you would lean towards the .4gm end. With Match Book Red Phos (MBRP), you lean towards the high end because that fine red powder that you have extracted is not ALL RED PHOS. It contains some glass and other shit. Same goes with LGI2 (lab grade iodine) versus I2 from tinc. (tincture).
Here's an example. 10gms pfed, 13gms I2, 6gms RP, and 8mls dh20 (which is 1PFED : 1.3I2 : 0.6RP : 0.8dH20)
After the reaction (rxn), you have reduced the pseudo to meth. But theres ALL SORTS of other shit in there. So you must cleanly extract the meth outta there, in an 'acid/base' extraction, where the meth is turned into its freebase form (by raising the pH of the solution using NaOH (lye) Then the FB meth is isolated (using a non-polar solvent like xylene, or in a process called 'steam distillation') and then turned back in to its water soluble salt form using muriatic/hydrochloric acid (HCl) . See
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(geezmeister: "The post-reaction workup: a cook's summary", Stimulants)The info that I have provided is not set in concrete, and many variations may apply. Different cook times, temps, ratios, flask sizes, flask/oilbath temp differences (which can bee from 10° to 30°(approx), RP can be replaced with Phosphorus acid or Hypophosphorus acid, allsorts of things. However the information IS an explanation of how speed is made. This seems to be the most common way around here (the stimulants forum).
This will also help
RP - Redphosphorus
I2 - iodine
MB - Matchbook
LG - Labgrade
NP - non-polar, meaning a solvent that is 'non-polar', like naptha, xylene, toluene, etc.
FB - freebase
HCl - hydrochloride, or hydrochloric
RXN - reaction
PM - pill mass (pills that have been ground up)
GUPS - ground up pills
OTC - over the counter
Hope I helped a bit. This is not a full on recipe, just a guide, to give you the general idea. Feel free to ask more questions and other bees come in and tell me of any disputible info.
Some stuff to remember:
*A decongestant drug called Pseudoephedrine is used to make speed
*The primary source of Pseudoephedrine for most 'meth cooks' is from OTC decongestant pills
*Hydriodic Acid will 'reduce' (convert) Pseudoephedrine to Methamphetamine(speed)
*Hydriodic acid is produced in the reaction between Red Phosphorus and Iodine
*Both Meth and Pseudoephedrine have a 'freebase' form, and therefor can have a 'salt' form, like hydrochloride or sulfate. Most street speed is Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
*Both Meth HCl (Hydrochloride) and Pseudoephedrine HCl will turn into their freebase form when in an environment where the pH is 12.8 or higher. Substances like lye (Caustic soda, NaOH) or Sodium Carbonate are used to raise pH of a solution. Acid will lower pH of a solution.
*A freebase substance will change back into a water soluble salt form when exposed to an acid. For example, freebase Pseudoephedrine will turn into Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride when exposed to HCl (hydrochloric/muriatic acid.)
*A drug in its freebase form is oil soluble
*A drug in its Hydrchloride form is water soluble