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Originally Answered: How do I make methamphetamine?

1. Making methamphetamine at home: List of chemicals and materials: Diluted HCl - also called
muriatic acid - can be obtained from hardware stores, in the pool section NaOH, also called lye
Ethyl ether, a.k.a. diethyl ether, a.k.a. Et-0-Et, can be obtained from engine starting fluid, usually
from a large supermarket. Look for one that says "high ethyl ether content", such as Prestone.
Ephedrine: The cotton in today’s Vicks nasal inhalers don’t contain efed or pfed (ephedrine or
pseudoephedrine) but there are still lots of easy ways to get good ephed or pfed, pure ephedrine
can be extracted out of its plant matter, from a plant that can be bought at most garden stores.
Or you can get pfed from decongestant pills like sudafed. Most people prefer to work with pfed
from pills rather then ephed from the plant. The important thing is that you must have pure
pfed/ephed as any contaminants will fuck up the molar ratio leaving you with over-reduced shit
or under-reduced shit. Or contaminants will gel during baseifying and gak up your product which
will then be very hard to clean. So you want to find a pill that is nearly pure pfed hcl, or as close
to pure as you can get. Also check the label on your pills and see what inactive ingredients they
contain. Inactive ingredients are things like binders and flavors. These you don't want and will
remove when cleaning your pills. but certain inactive ingredients are harder to remove then
others. You don't want pills with a red coating, you don't want pills with a lot of cellulose in them
and you don't want pills with much wax. You also don't want pills that contain povidone.

2. 12:18Ethyl ether is very pungent. Even a small evaporated amount is quite noticeable. Ephedrine
& or P-ephedrine: Please discuss this on the neonjoint forum 5. Pour 1/8 teaspoon of the lye
crystals into the bottle of ephedrine and agitate. Do this carefully, as the mixture will become
hot, and give off hydrogen gas and/or steam. H2 gas is explosive and lighter than air, avoid any
flames as usual. Repeat this step until the mixture remains cloudy. This step neutralizes the HCl
in the salt, leaving the insoluble free base (l-desoxyephedrine) again. Why do we do this? So that
we can get rid of any water-soluble impurities. For 3 oz. bottles, this should take only 3
repetitions or so. 6. Fill the bottle from step 5 up the rest of the way with ethyl ether. Cap the
bottle, and agitate for about 8 minutes. It is very important to expose every molecule of the free-
base to the ether for as long as possible. This will cause the free base to dissolve into the ether
(it -is- soluble in ether). 7. Let the mixture settle. There will be a middle layer that is very thick.
Tap the side of the bottle to get this layer as thin as possible. This is why this bottle should be
clear. 8. Remove the top (ether) layer with the eyedropper, being careful not to get any of the
middle layer in it. Place the removed ether layer into a third bottle.

3. 12:189. Add to the third bottle enough water to fill it half-way and about 5 drops of muriatic acid.
Cap it. Shake the bottle for 2 minutes. When it settles, remove the top layer and throw it away.
The free base has now been bonded to the HCl again, forming a water soluble salt. This time,
 we're getting rid of ether-soluble impurities. Make sure to get rid of all the ether before going to
step 11! 10. If there is anything left from step 3, repeat the procedure with it. 11. Evaporate the
solution in the Pyrex dish on low heat. You can do this on the stove or nuke it in the microwave
(be careful of splashing), but I have found that if you leave it on top of a hot-water heater (like
the one that supplies hot water to your house) for about 2-3 days, the remaining crystals will be
ephedrine HCl. If you microwave it, I suggest no more than 5-10s at one time. If it starts
"popping", that means you have too little liquid left to microwave. You can put it under a bright
(100W) lamp instead. Microwaving can result in uneven heating, anyway. First batch: 120mg
ephedrine HCl, estimated 300mg (100% of theoretical, disregarding HCl) Now, making
methamphetamine out of ephedrine by reducing it with hydroiodic acid and red Phosphorus.
Items needed: A lot of matchbooks (the kind with the striking pad) Coffee filters (or filter paper)
Something that measures ml and grams A flask (a small pot with a lid can be used) Iodine
Hydroiodic acid (I will tell you how to make this) Red phosphorus (I will tell you how to make
this) Lye *Optional (toluene and HCI gas)

4. 12:18Making red phosphorus: The striking pad on books of matches is about 50% red
phosphorus. The determined experimenter could obtain a pile of red phosphorus by scraping off
the striking pads of matchbooks with a sharp knife. A typical composition of the striking pad is
about 50% red phosphorus, along with about 30% antimony sulfide, and lesser amounts of glue,
iron oxide, MnO2, and glass powder. I don't think these contaminants will seriously interfere with
the reaction. Naturally, it is a tedious process to get large amounts of red phosphorus by
scraping the striking pads off matchbooks, but who cares? Making hydroiodic acid: This is made
by mixing iodine and red phosphorus. When making hydroiodic acid from iodine and red
phosphorus, the acid is prepared first, and allowed to complete its reaction for 20 minutes
before adding the ephedrine to it. The way around the roadblock here is to just boil off some
more of the water from the ephedrine extract, and make the acid mixture in fresh pure water.
Since the production of HI from iodine and red phosphorus gives off a good deal of heat, it is
wise to chill the mixture in ice, and slowly add the iodine crystals to the red phosphorus-water
mixture.

5. 12:19Now, making methamphetamine: To do the reaction, a 1000 ml round bottom flask is filled
with 150 grams of ephedrine. Also added to the flask are 40 grams of red phosphorus and 340
ml of 47% hydroiodic acid. This same acid and red phosphorus mixture can be prepared from
adding 150 grams of iodine crystals to 150 grams of red phosphorus in 300 ml of water. This
should produce the strong hydroiodic acid solution needed. Exactly how strong the acid needs
to be, I can't say . With the ingredients mixed together in the flask, a condenser is attached to the
flask, and the mixture is boiled for one day. This length of time is needed for best yields and
highest octane numbers on the product. While it is cooking, the mixture is quite red and messy
looking from the red phosphorus floating around in it.When one day of boiling under reflux is up,
the flask is allowed to cool, then it is diluted with an equal volume of water. Next, the red
phosphorus is filtered out. A series of doubled up coffee filters will work to get out all the red
phosphorus, but real filter paper is better. The filtered solution should look a golden color. A red
color may indicate that all the red phosphorus is not yet out. If so, it is filtered again. The filtered-
out phosphorus can be saved for use in the next batch. If filtering does not remove the red color,
there may be iodine.
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I have been addicted for most of the decade. · 2y

As a former meth cook who also did 3 years in jail for manufacturing meth after being caught several
times my best answer is that ice is so cheap anymore the risk vs reward of cooking meth compared to
buying ice is a no brainer. I get that the Ice today isn't near as good as the old fashioned diy stuff. But the
chemicals needed have gotten harder and harder to get; not to mention even Sudafed the main ingredient
necessary has become difficult to obtain, it's really not worth it. It's not impossible and I saw one answer
that gave a serious description; I'll be honest I didn't read the answer well enough to tell if the correct
process was explained but it looked like a detailed explanation. I would seriously think hard before you
take the risk because jail really sucks and you can get high with a lot less risk and a much smaller
sentence for possession if you do any jail time at all. Good luck!
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Originally Answered: How do I make methamphetamine?

Recommended Materials/Tools:

~ The tools that I use can obviously be substituted for others…

· 1 Box of 12-Hour or 24-Hour (2.4 gramsPseudoephedrine)o Can be Sudafed or any of the generics

o Dependingo n the store and type, costs about $6 - $12

· 1/2 – 3/4 cup Lye (Sodium Hydroxide – NaOH) o I use Roebic Laboratories Crystal Drain Opener from
Lowe’s

o Ace Hardware also has smaller containers of 100% Lye that are about $7

o Costsabout $16 with tax for a 2lb container

· 1/4 – 3/8 cup Ammonium Nitrate Crystals (NH4NO3– AN)o I use the crystals from the inside of instant
Ice compresses from The DollarGeneral

§ Most Instant Ice Compresses now are made with UREA… You need to get the AN.

o Costs $1.50 for each Ice Compress

o You will use about 1 per 2 cooks or so

o Took me a long time but I located an MSDS or something that verified the contentsinside the AN Ice
Compresses was like 98%-99% AN

· 1/2 a bottle of Coleman’s Premium Camping Fuel o Red bottle at Walmart

o Costs around $6

o I’ve seen no difference in results buy washing Coleman’s Premium First, so I do notwaste my time

o Look, I know this is going to hurt a bunch of vaginas out there so here’s the deal…

§ I used VM&P Naphtha for a while, but it’s a pain in the ass keeping that shitwarm enough…especially
through a thick ass Sodastream bottle

§ I also used Diethyl Ether for a bit, and it worked great, I just got tired ofhaving to empty the cans and
doing the water wash with the shit.

§ I LIKE COLEMAN’S!!! If you don’t like that, guess you’llsl probably live…

· 1 Sodastream Plastic Bottle (500ml)o I buy a pack of 2 bottles at Walmart

o Costs about $14

o I reuse them a few times, although many others recommend against doing this, butI’m cheap and I
haven’t had any problems.

o The only other Reaction Vessels (RV) that I have used are 600ml or so SmartwaterBottle and the 1 Liter
Smartwater Bottle

§ If you use something like that, Gorilla tape the bottom of the bottle and theseams from the bottom to
the top for extra pressure reinforcement

· 2 Energizer Advanced Lithium AA Baterieso I buy the 4 packs from Walmart

o Costs about $6 for the 4-pack

o Energizer Ultimate works as well but they are more expensive and the case is harder tocut through

· A couple bottles of bottled water· Usually Around 10 – 20 drops of muriatic acid (also called
hydrochloric acid –HCl)o I buy at Lowes

o 1 Gallon Jug

o Costs about $8

· Some Epsom salto I buy at Walmart

o Large container costs like $1

· Some Acetoneo I buy at Lowes

o I believe it’s around a quart, in a metal container, and it costs around $7

· Some Isopropanol Alcohol if you want to Recrystalizeo I buy the large container of 91% Alcohol at
Walmart

o Costsless than $3

· A pair of PVC Pipe Cutterso I got mine at Lowes

o Cost around $10 or so

o Will be using these to cut the casing off of the batteries

· A couple pairs of plyerso Ididn’t buy these as I already had them, but I hope you oecan figure out where
toget some

o One of these will be used to hold the batterywhile cutting the casing, and the other will be used to pull
the “guts” out ofthe battery

· A bunch of coffee filters

· A couple of cotton balls

· A blow-dryer

· A couple of grocery bags to use as trash bags

· A few 1 Quart ziplock baggies (I like the oneswith the slide seals)

· An Eye Dropper

· Something to test PH

o Iuse a regular pool PH Test Kit (Pain in the ass, but it works)

· A mason Jar

· A thumb tack

· A sewing needle

· A plate to use as an evaporation plate

· 2 shot glasses

· A couple of glass baby food jars

· A Plastic Funnel

· A blender

· 1/4 Cup measuring cup

· 5 Small Tupperware containers with the lids

· Any safety gear that makes you feel more secure (Kitty Litter, gloves, face mask, whatever)

o I do recommend something to breathe through so that you do not inhale a bunch of Ammonia…That
shit is nasty.

o Honestly,I usually cook in the car or in my bedroom in boxers, but I know shit can go wrong, and that’s
just stupid… Please, safety first.

I know that it looks/sounds like a lot of shit, but don’t get discouraged… It will probably cost around
$100-$150 for your first cook and around $20-$30 for each cook after that… You will likely yield between
1.5 – 2 grams of high quality meth that you can cut at least 25% if selling and still keep a very marketable
product at $100 a gram, so you will have about $185 -$250 street value worth of product for each cook…
Li(NH3)4 thinks this is apretty good Return on Investment, but Li(NH3)4 doesn’t care because he likes to
abuse all of the product from ever cook with his wife

OK… Now we are going to do an outline or “RECIPIE”of the actual procedure. I am doing it this way so that
you can just follow a step by step process that’s not "too" wordy… Just make sure you understand what
you are doing before you start… Trust me, this process is FUCKING EASY with VERY LITTLE DANGER “IF”
you understand what you are doing… The only REAL DANGER is all the Damn Over-Zealous Hillbilly
Geniuses that believe reading is for the city folk. Please don’t add to the ridiculously amplified
misconception that this is a super dangerous procedure that will blow our innocent neighbors up… It’s
bad publicity!

Added Info Dean brought to my attention, and is correct, so I tought I'd edit it before I have some fun
gettin banned from this site because all the bickering, whining, and sore pussy rubbin is losing it's interest
to me...

Anyway:

If you're not in a big hurry to complete cook, you don't need extreme pressure to Bronze the Li, as a matter
of fact, you could get RV all loaded & leave cap slightly vented, and come back after a couple of hours,
and be Bronzed... Assuming you have enough AN and Lye to produce enough Ammonia gas to bronze the
Li...

Just remember, the heat and pressure are incredibly important when you add the PSE, and the entire time
the PSE is reactiong with the Li Bronze/Amide... You need the high pressure here if you want good dope...

COOL!

Basic Procedure Outline:

1. Place a layer of Epsom salt into a cookie sheet and bake in the oven at 400 degrees for about an hour
or 2

2. Crush the dry salt into a fine powder, and put about half an inch of the dry salt into each of the baby
food jars

3. Add acetone to one jar and isopropanol alcohol to the other jar, each about 3/4 full and place them
both in the freezer

4. Make sure your Sodawater bottle is completely clean and COMPLETELY dry

5. Prepare an area to work, clean the area up, and have all the materials and tools easily accessible and
organized in the work area

6. Put your PSE pills into the blender, blend them until they are a fine powder, and put the powder into a
small Tupperware container sealed with the lid

7. Measure out 1/2 cup of Lye and put the Lye into a small Tupperware container sealed with the lid

8. Measure out 1/4 cup of Lye and put the Lye into a small Tupperware container sealed with the lid

9. Cut open the Instant Ice compress package, throw away the bag of water inside, measure out 1/4 cup
of the AN crystals and put them into a Small Tupperware Container sealed with the lid
10. Measure out 1/8 cup of the AN crystals (1/2 of the 1/4 cup measuring cup) and put them into a Small
Tupperware Container sealed with the lid

11. Pour about 1/4 of the bottle of Coleman’s fuel into a plastic Ziploc bag and keep bag handy for next
step

12. Remove Lithium Strips from 2 AA Batteries:

a. Hold one end of a battery tightly with a pair of plyers

b. Use PVC Pipe cutters with the other hand to cut through the battery casing

i. Try to prevent cutting past the casing and into the “guts” of the battery as well as you can

ii. Pinghat (I like him), suggested using a steak knife to saw through the casing without digging into the
guts, then pulling casing apart…Probably a much easier way to attempt this, and I’m gonna give that shit
a go next time

c. Once the casing is cut all the way around the battery, set the cutter down and use the other pair of
plyers to:

i. Tightly hold the second end of the battery

ii. Bend the battery back and forth with the plyers in each of your hands to ensure the casing is cut all the
way through

iii. While holding each end of the battery tightly with the plyers, pull the casing apart, and one side of the
casing will come off exposing the “guts” of the battery

iv. Discard the 1/2 battery casing that was removed and use the now free plyers to clamp on the exposed
battery guts while still holding the casing with the other pair of plyers… now pull apart again and the
“guts” will come free of the casing

v. Place the “guts” directly into the fuel in the Ziploc baggie, and keep them submerged in the fuel as
much as possible

d. Repeat this process with the second battery

e. Remove the excess air from the Ziploc baggie and seal it

13. Add the 1/4 cup Tupperware container of AN to the RV using the funnel

14. Add the 1/2 cup Tupperware container of Lye to the RV using the funnel

15. Add the 2nd 1/4th of the bottle of Coleman’s fuel to the RV using the funnel

16. Remove the Lithium strips from the Battery Guts:

a. Open the Ziploc baggie containing the fuel and the battery guts

b. Put your clean hands into the fuel and unroll the 1st roll of battery guts while keeping them submerged
the entire time

c. Locate the strip of Lithium (this will be the dull gray looking strip, not the blackand shiny silver strip)
d. Remove the Li strip while still submerged in the fuel, and discard the rest of the battery “guts” into a
grocery bag (be sure to also remove and throw away the shiny folded piece of metal that will be attached
to the strip of Li at one end or the other)

e. Repeatthe process for the 2nd roll of “guts”

f. Now rip off a piece of Li maybe 3 inches long, and begin tearing it into small pieces that can fit through
the funnel and into the RV (Doesn’t matter if they are flat, or balled up, or folded, just keep them relatively
small)

g. Repeat this process until all of the Li is in the RV

17. Pour the fuel from the Ziploc bag into the RV using the funnel

18. Remove the funnel and screw the lid onto the RV

19. If the reaction is already building (Ammonia (NH3) bubbles emerging from the bottom layer of
reactants and traveling to the top of the RV through the NP), by the time the cap is on…cool. If not, give
the RV an easy swirl to get some of the reactants in the bottom to mix togetherkoop and initiate
reaction…

20. Blow-dryer can be used at this point, and throughout the remainder of the cook to initiate/increase
the reaction in the RV

21. While holding RV with both hands, use your thumbs to “push In” on the center of the bottle to test
internal pressure

22. Try this push test all the around the bottle to find the spot that is easiest to push in, and make a
mental note of where this spot is as it is the spot you will use for monitoring pressure throughout the
cook

23. Allow the reaction to continue while monitoring pressure until pressure builds high enough to warrant
a pressure relief (Burp):

a. These Sodastream bottles are beasts and can hold an incredible amount of internal pressure without
failing, so don’t burp the RV until you are unable to push the bottle in whatsoever with the force of both of
your thumbs pushing together

b. The first burp will probably be needed about 2-5 minutes after the reaction starts really going but go by
pressure, not by time

c. After a few burps during the first 10-15min of good reaction, once everything slows a bit, you really only
need to burp the RV a couple of times more prior to adding your PSE

24. When pressure reaches the threshold, burp the RV:

a. Slowly loosen the cap on the RV just enough to let A VERY LITTLE bit of pressur eescape, and to get
the reaction rolling strong again, and then close the cap

b. There may be a whistling sound as the high pressure gasses are venting out of the RV…Good sign that
you are letting the pressure build enough before venting

c. You may even see NH3 gas shoot out of the cap like steam blowing out of the sides of an iron… Scary,
but VERY good sign that you are building the kind of pressure that you want
25. You should see little tiny Bronze beads start forming around the RV floating just on top of the NP
mixed around with the Li within the first 10 minutes if everything is going well

a. If the Bronze is not starting to appear within 10 – 15 minutes, it’s a pretty good indication that you are
not allowing enough pressure to build in the RV, and you are either burping too early, too often, or both.
No big deal... Just be observant and learn.

26. Swirl the bottle and/or heat with blow-dryer as needed to keep the reaction continuing strong
throughout this process

27. Continue this process for probably about 25 – 45 minutes, (less burping and stronger ammonia
reaction = quicker bronzing of Li = Less time… so Kinda hard to give you an accurate time frame here)
until approximately 3/4 of the Li in the RV has been converted to Bronze

a. The pink color in the fuel will dissipate over these initial 25-45min, and the clear fuel will get foggy as it
becomes saturated with Li Bronze particles

28. Slowly loosen the RV cap, vent all of the pressure, then remove the cap

29. If the reaction is slowing down at this point, recharge the RV by adding the remaining 1/8 cup AN and
then the remaining 1/4 cup of lye to the RV through the clean funnel. No more AN or Lye need to be
added if the reaction is still going strongly that it right that ty r that get the gr guy ty ty ty r get the it t ty ty

30. Add the PSE to the RV through the funnel slowly and then remove the funnel and screw cap back onto
the RV

31. Shake the fuck out of the bottle for about 10 seconds…

32. Continue shaking the fuck out of the

bottle as much as possible while continuing to regulate pressure with the blow-dryer and burping for the
next 20-30 minutes

33. The PSE must be based before the reaction can take place between the PSE and the Li, so it will be a
bit (maybe 10-15 min. before you see the fuel start really going dark like chocolate milk)

a. It is REALLY important to keep the pressure in the RV high, and the temp of the fuel as warm as you
can during this time as it aides the reaction taking place between the PSE and the Li

b. You will start seeing the fuel go dark after shaking the fuck out of the RV, and then go back to clear
after the bottle settles

i. This color change will likely happen many times

ii. Sometimes the fuel doesn’t really go nearly as dark as other times… it’s ok… just keep going…

34. Once you get to the point where you are able to shake the fuck out of the bottle, then set it down… and
the fuel settles and goes back to clear in about 30-45sec, your cook is complete.

a. You will still have some Li floating on top of the fuel, but it should be a very small amount compared to
the original amount, and the remaining pieces will be thin and significantly reacted into bronze

b. If you still have a significant amount of Li, don’t worry about it… Under-reacted product is still pretty
decent, and you’ll get better next time
35. Slowly loosen the RV cap and vent all of the pressure

36. Prepare the funnel with the 2 cotton balls stuffed tightly into the stem, about 7 coffee filters in the
funnel, and about a 1/2 inch layer of the dry Epsom in one of the middle coffee filters

37. Use the prepared funnel to carefully filter the fuel by pouring it from the RV into the Mason Jar.

a. Don’t fill the funnel more than about 1/2 way full at any time to prevent Particulates from getting over,
around, or through the filters.

b. As you are draining the fuel from the RV into the funnel, some of the Li and the reactants will also be
poured into the funnel… This is fine.

c. As the last of the fuel is in the funnel, agitate the pile of reactants and Li with a small wooden or plastic
spoon or something similar that is clean and made of either wood or plastic to get trapped meth to move
on with the fuel through the filters.

d. Add a little more clean fuel to the filters in the funnel, agitate mixture again, and allow fuel to collect
remaining meth to the mason jar

e. Oncet he filters have no more fuel, remove them from the funnel, squeeze them over the funnel to get
as much of the meth/fuel as possible, dump the inner contents that they contain into a plastic Ziploc
baggie, and discard the filters

f. Remove the cotton balls from the funnel, squeeze the fuel from them into the mason jar, and discard
them

38. Dump the contents of the RV into the same baggie with the rest of the reactants from the funnel, add
a little clean fuel to this baggie, seal the baggie, and shake it around for 5 or 10 minutes to get as much
of the trapped meth out of the reactants as possible.

39. Repeat the filtering process as before filtering the new fuel from the baggie into the original fuel in the
Mason Jar, but this time, once the fuel filters through, after squeezing the filters and the cotton balls to
get the excess fuel, just throw the filters and cotton balls into the baggie with the rest of the reactants,
seal it, and set it aside for disposal.

· Water Pull

o If you want to do gas Titration, please do it… Water pull is what I like…

o If you have questions about Gassing, ASK ECSTACYBEANS… That dude loves to go on about Gassing…
and on…and on…and on……..

40. Add an equal amount of cold water to the fuel inthe Mason jar, put the cap on securely, and shake the
fuck out of it for about 3-5 minutes to wash the fuel and remove certain impurities.

a. Do not do this water cleaning if you are going to bang your dope as the sulfur impurities that you are
washing away are the very things that provide that great fucking initial rush that takes your head outta
this world when you get ahold of some good Banger’s Dope.

41. Dump the Fuel/water mix into a plastic baggie, seal it, and then hang it from the wall by the corner of
the bag with a tack
42. Allow the layers to separate (Fuel will be on the top, and the dirty waste water on the bottom), poke a
hole through the bottom corner of the baggie with the sewing needle and allow the waste water to drain
into any container for disposal

43. When the water is just about gone, switch the waste container for the Mason Jar and collect the fuel

44. Repeat this washing process 1 more time

45. After the 2nd water wash, pour the fuel from the Mason Jar into a plastic Ziploc baggie and add 1/4
cup of water.

46. Use an eye dropper to add 1-2 drops of HCl acid to the fuel/water mix, shake it around for a minute

47. Let the mixture settle and separate and obtain a sample of the water layer to test the PH

a. Use a long eye dropper or a needleless syringe to access the water beneath the fuel layer

48. Repeat this process until the PH of the water layer is between 6.8 and 7.2

a. Use some kind of PH testing (Meter, strips, drops, whatever)

b. When you start getting around 9 PH, just add one drop of HCL at a time, and retest PH after each drop

i. It’svery easy to suddenly drop below target 7 PH and have dope that doesn’t smoke well

ii. I want Y’all to do this part good so you can join me in Nagging Beans about our dope NOT being fucked
up

49. Let layers settle and separate, use a needle to poke a hole through the bottom corner of the baggie,
and drain the meth/water solution onto your evaporation plate (Pyrex dish if you like)

50. Pinch the hole in the corner of the baggie when the water is almost completely drained and then drain
the fuel back into the Mason Jar

a. Do not let any of the fuel pass through the drain hole onto the evaporation plate

51. Repeat the water wash of the fuel, the addition of the 1/4 cup of water, the PH neutralizing (This time
it will only probably need 2-3 drops of HCL total), and the collection of the water/meth once again to the
same evaporation plate

52. Use a blow-dryer and optionally a hot plate or non-gas stove to evaporate the water on the plate
leaving a meth crystal layer on the plate

53. Use a razor to scrape all of the meth into a pile

54. You can abuse as you wish at this point

a. The upcoming Acetone Wash will ensure that it burns cleanly on your foil or pizzle

b. Youc an continue onto the recrystallization from there if you like, but it’s not necessary

· Acetone Wash

55. Allow meth to completely dry

56. Crush meth crystals into a fine powder, and then put the powder into a shot glass
57. Use an eye dropper to siphon some acetone from the jar in the freezer and add to the meth in the shot
glass until the powder is well covered, swirl mixture for about 30 – 60 seconds, and then dump mixture
onto a new clean evaporation plate…

58. Hold the evaporation plate at a slight angle to allow the excess acetone to drain and collect at the
bottom of the plate with the dissolved impurities

a. Save these nasty dissolved impurities to use as a cut on the shit you sell, or to smoke later when you’re
in a bind as it will still contain some meth

59. Scrape the remaining meth crystals out of the shot glass onto the plate with the rest of the meth
using a knife, or razor, or whatever, and then clean the shot glass

ReCrystalization

60. Scrape together the clean meth crystals that did not dissolve into a pile, allow them to completely dry,
and crush them into a fine powder, and add once again to the clean shot glass

61. Use the CLEAN eyedropper once again to transfer the non-salt portion of the Isopropanol Alcohol
from the jar in the freezer to a small saucepan and heat on stove until it starts boiling

62. Use eyedropper to slowly add hot Isopropanol Alcohol to the meth in the shot glass

a. Just enough so that the meth will completely dissolve.

b. Stir...MA will dissolve...anything that doesn't is more impurity

c. Siphon ISO/MA into 2nd shot glass carefully leaving solid impurities in first shot glass

63. Heat ISO/MA till you just see first signs of film start to develop on surface.

64. Remove from heat...add a drop or 2 more of ISO, add add a couple drops of Acetone for good
measure, and allow to evaporate

a. Freezer takes about 6 hours, produces smallest crystals

b. Fridge = longer & bigger crystals

c. Room temp = longest & biggest shards

65. Carefully remove fragile crystals when they are no longer growinglc

66. Give crystals, once completely dry, one last quick rinse with dry cold Acetone to remove surface
impurities, and let completely dry one last time…

· You now have beautiful crystal clear shards that will get you “NO” higher than the salt you started with,
but they are pretty. Smoke them crystals, watch it run (clean as water with little to no trail), watch it crack
back, it’s like Magic.

That’s it.
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 Kristen Thoenebe · Follow
Former addict · 2y

Originally Answered: How do I make methamphetamine?

You can Google it and as long as you don't have parental controls on your searches it will come up. Quora
prohibits answers that give instructions about making or using drugs or hurting someone else or
yourself. If you type it out they will delete the post. Just know that when making it the fumes are
poisonous and you can't breathe them in and it is very volatile and can explode at any moment. And it
won't just be your “chemistry” set it will be your whole house.
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Sexy Shaped Body · Follow

Fuck by my cock · 9mo

You might be a cop so I ant saying shit move along porker

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Scott Wilson · Follow

Having lived the life of a clandestine chemist. · 5y

Originally Answered: How is methamphetamine made?

If one does not know the answer then one has no business getting all opinionated and irrelevant to the
answer. I don't care who you are. You're taboos have no place as an answer. It's a valid question and
nothing less than a valid answer is needed.

There are a plurality of routes to make methamphetamine. The routes involved use one of two precursors
to begin with.

1. (Pseudo)ephedrine

2. Pnenylacetone (also called phenyl-2-propanone ie. P2P)

I am not going to going into detail as to how it's done but I have given the keywords needed to search for
the various methods. So, instead of “How is methamphetamine made?”

Ask

“How is methamphetamine made with (pseudo)Ephedrine?”

Or

Insert one of the three used names given for Pnenylacetone.

Mass production of drugs are made with sophisticated laboratories. They don't blow up.

Hydrochloric acid and lye/caustic soda mixed together make salt water that you can rinse your mouth
out with or take a sip of. So individually, they're harmful but together they're not. That argument about
chemicals used to make it being the logic that the methamphetamine is toxic too does not hold up to
scientific proof. Some drugs are pure when produced.

Propaganda has no place in a quest for knowledge.

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AngieRocksThePlanet · Follow
Have used every traditional drug and several modern ones · 2y

Originally Answered: How do I make methamphetamine?

Uncle Fester - Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture 8th Edition - pdf

This covers many methods, you’ll find it on the pirate bay, but be aware that it is a banned book in most, if
not all countries. This means you could be arrested for merely possessing the file, plus charged with
conspiracy to manufacture a Schedule II/IIN Controlled Substance, before you’ve even begun.
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Dr. James Allen, PhD · Follow

PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Southern California (Graduated 2015) · Dec 21

Three ways:

1) Synthesis

2) Reduction

3) Conversion

Building the molecule up from scratch was how it was done initially and then the Birch reduction was
discovered and finally the Shake & Bake conversion reaction was developed. That’s how people make
meth.
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 Leon Brennan · Follow
Recovering Drug Enthusiast (2017–present) · 6y

Related What are the ingredients in meth?

1. Carbon.

2. Hydrogen.

3. Nitrogen.

I always got there by reducing pseudoephedrine which is available commercially. I never blew shit up
other than these few things.

1. My dreams of becoming a science teacher. Right…

2. My marriage. Like crash and burn worse than Dante’s inferno.

3. My health. Whatever.

4. My freedom. Doesn't matter and isn't free anyway, right?

5. My livelihood. Working sucks anyways.

6. My savings. For what, we might all die tonight?

7. My checking. Same shit, we might all die, fuck it.

8. Her savings. She owed me.

9. Her checking. But not her life.

10. My reputation. It was never that great.

11. My integrity. WTF is that?

12. My trustworthiness. Um, I don't trust anyone, why should they trust me?

13. My driving privileges. Walking isn't bad, for 5 years.

14. My teeth. I love milkshakes, for every meal.

15. My body. Fuck it, who needs a body with a brain like mine?

16. My brain. Fuck it, who needs a brain with a body like mine.

17. My memory. Fuck it, did I just repeat myself?

One last thing I always blew up. When the commercially available ingredient I'd reduce was unavailable
due to government restrictions and I needed more shit? I'd blow my dealers phone right the fuck outta the
water and pray he'd answer.

Leon
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Fake Name · Follow

Knows English · 11mo
Take rainbows and unicorn farts add them to a jar with a lot of salt and boil at 420 farenheiht. You’ll
figure out the rest
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Alessandra Liverani · Follow

Have written poems to help overcome addiction · 4y

Originally Answered: How does a person "do meth"? I don't do drugs but I am curious how it works.
This is how it works. The power of addiction is in the mind and has nothing to do with the attributes of
any drug. That's all you need to know.
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Rick Brown · Follow

Former Shaman · Apr 9

Well you can make it in under 2 hours with the one two three ingredients shake method with a 2 liter Coke
bottle that's going to cost you money I could show you that or you can go to the store and buy the lighter
Blue charcoal that's blue tint now bury it you see that charcoal bury it in the ground overnight in the dirt
and now next day 24 hours later dig up the charcoal and break it up and you see the crystals that's meth
you got to smoke within 24 hours on the man I used to sell two a few 25 years ago ,2 the Hell's Angels
/0)09 busier Dennis Dietrich kills people too where are my boys when you need them but I'll tell you what
the police are worse than Hell's Angels cuz they're identical They Ride the same bikes and ride the same
frequency the only difference between hells Angels and the cops are the hells Angels are honest about

😂
what they do that's Hunter s Thompson and he nailed it right on the head by the way he made snuff flex
he was satanic people rule baby. but I'm not going to drop names like Brian Fowlie! LOL …the truth is
there's no such thing as ADD and ADHD and they made that up in the '80s cuz i psychiatrist$ are evil and
you could just get Adderall which is four different kinds of amphetamine and that's going to pump you up
even more now you're lgbtq and selling your body that's fun too.
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Dave Larson · Follow

Been an addict for 24 yrs. And im 48 yrs old · 2y

What my problem is,….. i gota bad chest cold last week and had to get some meth and cchange it into
cold medicine! Every road dog on the street corner has meth but if you want some sudafed to help you
breathe you have to sacrifice yer first born and one of yer nuts. This so called free country is stupid. It aint
no free country and inly the people who make our laws are actually free. Its the most absurd thing ive
ever seen.
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Thomas William · Follow

Lives in Los Angeles (1978–present) · 7mo
Originally Answered: What are the ways to produce stable and pure crystal Meth?

Perhaps but chemistry isn’t the devil it’s the chemists. And if you don’t know at least basic lab safety
you’ll likely get hurt. Possibly VERY bad. As Josh mentioned, Lithium is a popular choice because its an
extremely reactive and light metal. Only problem is it catches fire in regular air, if it gets wet enough. Just
like sodium but not so extreme. While Josh makes an easy example, its not terribly easy to find
substantial quantities of pure(ish) amphetamine. Which you would want the dextrorotary not the
levorotary compound… I suppose you could steal someone Adderall as it definitely contains
dextroamphetamine but it has lots of fillers, binders, and other crap. I certainly wouldn’t want to try to
separate the adulterants, sugar, talc, whatever else they put in those pills. (FYI Levomethamphetamine is
what’s in Vick’s inhalers… good for clearing your chest but other than that just makes your speed… slower.
Almost every ingredient has the potential to hurt or kill or at least make you very sick. For example.. Lye is
a commonly used chemical because it is Sodium Hydroxide AND its formed by both a covalent bond
(hydrogen+oxygen = OH-) that’s negatively charged, forming an ionic bond with the Na+. This results in an
extremely exothermic reaction. Think Mentos in Diet Coke but caustic chemical burns on anything it
touches.

In short you don’t wanna waste your time with jury rigged gear, reactions you don’t understand, and if you
Open in App
say blind yourself or melt off a few fingers, you think the cops aren’t gonna be ready to escort you from
the ER?1It’s super dangerous. But some chemistry isn’t. What I’d do, if 4you can’t take a course in, study
some various procedures. A really neat and simple one is removing the active drug from cough syrup, the
dextromethorphan hydrobromide. Doesn’t take long, all you need is an acid-base extraction (ammonia
and naphtha lighter fluid work fine.) Mix Robo with ammonia for longer than you’d think it needs, binding
the dxm with the ammonia, then add a nonpolar solvent (ronson lighter fluid is fine…) Then stir/shake that
another 15 minutes and you’ll see the whole thing divide into 3 layers. The clear one in the middle is what
you want. You can create a separatory funnel if you don’t actually HAVE one… then let all that lighter fluid
evaporate leaving you nice pure DXM crystals! And a lesson in chemistry. Maybe try using NaOH instead
of ammonia next time, if you wanna up the danger… assuming you’re goal is to be able to perform
complicated dangerous science without blowing up your house or killing yourself.

My two cents of course but I know a lot of people who HAVE been hurt by rapidly roiling Lye when
someone put just a lil too much water in it too quickly.
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Levi Hodgins · Follow

Former Chef at Bistros · 4y

Originally Answered: How does a person "do meth"? I don't do drugs but I am curious how it works.

Most commonly in a glass pipe that has a hollow ball shape at the end you put bit of meth inside then
hold a lighter underneath and slowly heat it up till it melts in the ball and begins to smoke start inhaling
very slowly and steady until you have a lung full
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Randy S Fogle · Follow

4y
Originally Answered: How does a person "do meth"? I don't do drugs but I am curious how it works.

You can smoke it with a glass pipe or oil burner they are called at the store or with a straw and foil you
can snort it eat it turkey baster it and inject it that's how.
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Antonín Tonda · Follow

Freelance at Earth (planet) (2012–present) · Apr 8

However? There are an awful lot of procedures. The simplest and most effective is the so-called Czech
Way.. Iodine, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, thinner, hcl acid, distilled water, hydroxide, but in short,
everything fits into a small backpack, and it used to be cooked here normally everywhere. Outside, inside,
even in broad daylight, and full traffic, we were on LSD, people were walking around us, and we were
laughing and reacting in the flask :D:D. So we were kids, just playing :D
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Crystal Sanchez · Follow

Former Professional Birthing Employee · 4y

Originally Answered: How does a person "do meth"? I don't do drugs but I am curious how it works.
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You buy it from a drug dealer, buy a glass pipe with a bowl at the end, load some it in, melt it into a liquid,
let it cool and recrystalize, then heat the pipe again and inhale the vapors. That’s how I do meth.
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Rob Tegland · Follow

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Professional · 4y

You don’t.

They have controlled the precursors to the point of manufacturing impossibility, unless you live in
Mexico.

Ricky Tack · Follow

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Freelance Writer, Polymath and Anti-Communist. · 2y

Originally Answered: How do I make methamphetamine?

Ask a Policeman. He will give you all the details.

Steve Vettraino · Follow

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Likes to get high when traveling abroad · 8y

Originally Answered: What is needed to make meth?

A solid understanding of organic chemistry. Skilled lab technique. Proper equipment. Reagent grade
precursors. A safety plan.

And big balls.

Cam Cox · Follow

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Studied Certificate IV Training and Assessment (Graduated 2013) · 6y

by researching and identifying chemicals required, and what may or may not be required phyically as
aparatus. Equipment, ingredients, and knowledge in exacting forms, very complex precise mesaures.
luck, and thats it, lol

NadineTay49 · Follow
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Lab Tech (1998–present) · Jan 18

Originally Answered: How do I make meth with home ingredients?

Well, I’ll tell you what the main ingredient is.. just incase you didn’t already know.. but for 1 ounce it’s 200
Pseudoephedrine HCL 60mg pills. You used to be able to get them in Sudafed but the fucking pos
government took em off the shelf and now there’s another product called Phenylephedine HCL 60mg’s in
em. See how close the spellings are? Gov’t did that on purpose, guaranteed. So, I think some cooks are
mistaking one for the other thinking they’re the same, and they’re NOT. That’s why the dope’s so shitty.
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Josh Manson · Follow

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Meth addict · 7y

Related What is methamphetamine made of?

Methamphetamine is not made of anything, it is an independent molecule that can't be separate into
different substances without a chemical reaction of some kind. The process used to make meth is also a
chemical reaction. To say that the reagents and chemicals
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made of would be misleading. Saying that implies that those chemicals are in meth which is not true

Anonymous
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7y

Related How can I safely use meth?

You poor poster. All you want is an answer to your question. Well, here it is. The first thing to understand
is, there are some body chemistries that just don’t jive with some drugs. If you tend to beat your wife
when you drink, then don’t drink. If you get stuck on stupid when you smoke weed, well, if you don’t mind
looking stupid go ahead. Meth has a break in period, and it can be a long one. It is similar to the break in
period for any drug, weed included. It is the time it takes
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when you get high and being able to go about daily life easily when

Nbkandrew13 · Follow
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I have used this drug over 30 years im a professional · 2y

Originally Answered: How does someone grow meth?

I’m not sure of the legality of telling you and posting it so I won’t give you the whole recipe many will say
it’s bs but I assure you I have a aquantance that grows it in 55 gallon drums in East tx I’m gonna give you
the info to continue research .. uncle festers anarchistic cook book , the 666 recipe research that you’ll
find the ingredients and the how. 3 ingredients a 2 liter empty bottle total cost $75 yields 6 oz

John Prato · Follow

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knew a lot about manufacture and chemistry of amphetamines · 7y
Related What is a way to make meth stronger?
The baking soda should tend to make your urine basic, which will prevent your body from excreting meth
in your urine, and thus will increase the half-life of the drug in your body. It will not, however, increase the
potency of the meth you are consuming.

If you were to acquire meth that was cut or diluted / adulterated, then several strategies can be employed
to “clean it up” or in more scientific terms, purify it.

I want to emphasize the following: Methamphetamine is a single molecule. When we speak of meth,
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speed, crank, etc. as long as the active ingredient is methampetamine and we agree upon

Frank Duncan · Follow

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BS Chemistry, 1967 · 7y

Originally Answered: How easy is it to make meth?

There are four ways to make meth in the US, and a entirely different way that the Mexican cartels make it.
All four US methods start off with pseudoephederine as the starting ingredient. Then you can use either
an iodine based method or an ammonia based method. The ammonia based methods are called the
“Nazi” method and the other the “One Pot” or “Shake and Bake.” All the ingredients for the shake and
bake can be found in Walmart. They have found people actually cooking a one pot in Walmart. The other
two methods are a LOT more dangerous and called the “Red P” and the “Hype” or “Hypo” method.
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Paul Michael O'Reilly · Follow

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Works at Pharmacists · 8y

Related What are the ingredients for methamphetamine?

The only common ingredient required to manufacture methamphetamine, is pseudoephedrine. All the
other ingredients can be variable. As a pharmacist, I've seen people purchase pseudoephedrine with
lithium batteries, and lye soap. Just as there are many possible ingredients, there are probably also many
different recipes, and processes to producing meth. Almost all the ingredients used to manufacture meth,
fall under the category of poisons and solvents. Ingredients people would normally not want to put into
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their body. There is also potential risk of explosion and fire in the process of

Ralph Borelli · Follow

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Part Time at Allblonup (2002–present) · 4y

Originally Answered: How do I make meth with home ingredients?

Thanks for A2A, I already have - answered, “give me the exact to the gram measurements to make “.
shake n bake.

Sean Stevens · Follow

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I grew up in a Northern California town, where the drug culture flourished · 6y

Originally Answered: How easy is it to make meth?

Are you asking if the synthesis of methamphetamine is easy? Or are you asking if “cooking” a batch of
“meth”is easy?

It is not easy to synthesize methamphetamine at all. It is actually nearly impossible in this day and age
due to a virtual all out ban on the precursors needed to do so.

I have no idea about throwing a bunch of scary shit into a soda bottle, watching it smoke and hiss, adding
yet another poison, another reaction, some filtering, and it becomes “meth”.

It is a fool’s game. Don’t fuck around.

Vernon Averill · Follow

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5y

Originally Answered: How does someone grow meth?

The average fool cannot. It takes an avant-garde boutique chemist. Meth is not a plant. To “grow meth” is
essentially a process to increase the size and quality of the crystals.

In 2007 we began a study on methamphetamine use in the suburbs of a large southeastern city of the
United States. We conducted ethnographic research among diverse drug networks and interviewed
methamphetamine users who lived and used methamphetamine in the suburbs. Respondents reported
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Thomas William · Follow

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Chemist (1982–present) · May 19

Related How can I make my weak meth stronger?

Gassing takes care of this as the solution will only take up as much HCL as there is meth to bond with,
but it’s super nasty stuff to work with and will corrode / rust everthing metal in your kitchen. You will need
at least a half face mask air filter with the organic cartridges marked for use with HCL gas, yellow and
also pink, I believe, if on the 3M system.

Be safe. Ask questions rather than guess.

Method 3: Recrystallization. Ranked- kinda effective. Easy to do, not toxic…

Dissolve your meth in ONLY just barely the amount

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Shemiya Mason · Follow

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Corporate Accountant · 4y

Related How can I safely use meth?

I don't know about “safely" but I know about somewhat responsibly. I've been smoking for a year now and
I fucking love it! BUT, I also keep my shit together. I work a regular M-F, 8–5, maintain my marriage, my
home and have an awesome relationship with my kids. I mostly do it on weekends for fun with the hubby
or to assist with my OCD when cleaning my house and it seriously helps with social anxiety. I stayed in
the house daily for 2 years prior suffering deep maniac depression, even voluntarily committing myself at
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one point seeking help for it. The meds were shit, way to damn expensive & too

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