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Lair of the infamous tms: Drug Policy, cocaine-howto
Please note that I am
not the author of the following. - tms
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I want first to express my personal opinion that freebasing is
a very bad thing to do for your body and mind. I have seen a few
people hooked on it, and it is not a nice thing to see. I strongly
disrecommend doing it. It is easy to overdose and die of cardiac
arrest. Some people doing freebase will exhibit the same kind of
behavior as those rats whose pleasure centers are electrically
stimulated: they will do it until either the supply runs out, or until
they die.
The recipes are readily available. In fact, a few years ago,
police officers would go to great lengths explaining how crack was
made when given interviews (at least in Montreal)! There was also an
article in Time a few years ago explaining the procedures.
I have never tried any of those procedures or smoked freebase,
and will never do it. The information I post comes from a used booklet
I bought a long time ago ("Cocaine Handbook", by Davis).
Crack is actually a impure form of freebase. Procedures for
both substances are based on the fact that while cocaine hydrochloride
is very soluble in water, base cocaine is almost insoluble.
freebase:
mix about 1 g of coke in 10 ml of water in a small vial.
Slowly add drops of ammonia to the solution. A white milky precipitate
will form. Stop adding ammonia when additional drops no longer result
in precipitation. Add 5 ml of ethyl ether, close vial, and shake. The
precipitate (freebase) will dissolve in the ether. Siphon off the
ether with a pipette (ether and water don't mix), and slowly drip it
on a plate. As the ether evaporates, white crystals will form. This is
the evil freebase. Crush the crystals and put under a heat lamp for at
least 24 hrs to let the solvent evaporate.
ETHYL ETHER IS EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE. IN THE PRESENCE OF AIR IT
CAN FORM PEROXIDES WHICH WILL SPONTANEOUSLY EXPLODE! ALSO, ETHER CAN
"CRAWL" FROM AN OPEN BOTTLE AND TRIGGER AN EXPLOSION MANY FEET AWAY.
This is how Richard Pryor almost died. A lot of untrained
people killed themselves doing that procedure, and this is why crack
is now more popular.
crack:
mix 2 parts ok coke HCL for 1 part baking soda in 20 ml of
water. Heat solution gently until white precipitates form, and stop
heating when precipitation stops. Filter and keep precipitate. wash
precipitate once with water (this procedure usually omitted in street
product). Dry 24 hours under heat lamp. Voila. The product is much
less pure (there is lots of baking soda left) but the procedure is
safer.
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Anonymous writes:
(3) insofar as cocaine use is concerned, i have - after many years of
foolishly self-destructive behavior - discovered a very nice way
to do coke. take a nasal decongestant sprayer bottle, empty it.
take a small amount of powdered cocaine - 1/4 to 1/2 a gram - and
dissolve it in maybe a cubic inch of water. add a drop or two of
vodka or other ethanol. stir it. the cocaine dissolves into the
water, leaving the cut(s) on the bottom, a side benefit i didn't
originally anticipate. pour the solution - a 7% solution, if i may
offer a nickname - into yon vile vial, and apply to your nasal
cavities, judiciously.
if overfilled, you will get a jet of solution. otherwise, you get a
nice mix of solution and air in a mist that dissolves easily into
your nasal passages, with consequent bodily effects approximately
equivalent to a cup of coffee. this is advantageous for many, many
reasons ...
(a) no waste. you get exactly what your body can absorb, and
no crumbs clinging to your nasal passages and falling down
your front. you don't get so much that the effect borders
on toxicity, as you do when doing lines. and you can make
a 1/2 gram last up to a week, in this fashion.
(b) no paraphernalia. this fits nicely into a night bag with
toothbrush or toothpaste, and is bust-free, in the car, on
one's person, at one's desk, or crossing international
borders. no razors, no straws, no mirrors, no 'bullets' or
little brown vials waiting to fall out of your pocket.
(c) no addictive sequence. it's much easier to forego tooting
when using at this level, and put it aside for the night,
instead of staying up 'til the wee hours. and it combines
with being productive about the same way that coffee does.
( i have also applied small amounts of methamphetamine in
this fashion, with similar low-impact effects. )
It's really a shame that the Establishment doesn't apply itself to teaching
people how to use drugs intelligently and creatively, since, clearly, such
paths to competence and maturity exist. If I had known ten years ago what I
have learned through much reading and thinking, I would have saved myself a
lot of money, and, more importantly, a lot of grief and self-destructive
behavior which I have, fortunately, survived.
Please perpetuate this information as widely as possible, the better to teach
people how to avoid addictive behavioral sequences while continuing to explore
the realms of awareness in a mature and thoughtful manner.
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