Book Reviews About Making Drugs
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Book Reviews About Making Drugs
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture
Covers a variety of topics in the field of clandestine chemistry and making amphetamines, MDMA (ecstasy), and other MDMA related chemicals.
Includes lessons on obtaining the chemicals needed to produce your chosen drug, electrolytic reduction of ephedrine into methamphetamine, hydrogenation methods using electrically generated hydrogen, phenylacetone syntheses, methylamine synthesis, making bromosafrole or related substances, and more.
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine... Amphetamine Syntheses:
Industrial Edition
Looks at various areas related to making amphetamines like the meth lab, the law, designer drugs, chemistry of the reactions, etc.
The majority of the book, however, details syntheses of amphetamine and related chemicals such as MDA, MDMA (ecstasy), DOB, TMA, PMA, MDEA (Eve), DOM (STP), methylcathinone, phenetermine, aminorex, ephedrine.
Amphetamine Syntheses Growing the Hallucinogens:
How to Cultivate and Harvest Legal Psychoactive Plants
A small book about various legal hallucinogens that can be grown in the home. Information describes the plant, it's habitat, and how to cultivate it in the home. The book doesn't go into common problems in cultivation (diseases, pests, etc), however.
A good starting point for those interested in the subject of legal home grown hallucinogens, but when you find something that interests you, get more information online or buy a book specific to growing that plant.
Growing the Hallucinogens Hydroponic Heroin:
How to Grow Opium Poppies Without Soil
Although this book is out of print, it is worth getting if you can find it for a good price. It shows how to grow opium poppies with a hydroponic set up. From how to sprout the seeds and care for the plants to harvesting. This is the book to get if you want to try growing the opium poppy indoors, in a hydroponic environment.
A short history of opium is presented along with the risks of addiction, pain of quitting, obtaining materials, laws, dosages, overdose antidotes and more. Shows how to harvest raw opium from the opium poppies you have grown and describes how to convert the opium to morphine or heroin.
Hydroponic Heroin Legal Highs:
A Concise Encyclopedia of
Legal Herbs & Chemicals
With Psychoactive Properties
This is a good starting point for people interested in legal psychoactive drugs. Although it was shorter than I would have liked, this book supplies most of the info you need to know for safe dosage and acquisition of legal herbs and chemicals with psychoactive properties of several dozen legal highs.
Get the book and after reading it if there are any substances you are interested in, find out more about them on the internet before ingesting anything.
Legal Highs Love Drugs
This book will show the chemist how to produce a large range MDMA (ecstasy) based drugs like MDMA, MDA, MDEA, and others. Anethol from pine oil, precursors made with plant oils such as dill and parsley.
A degree in chemistry is recommended when attempting to manufacture drugs. You won't understand this book if you don't understand chemistry.
Love Drugs LSD
This is the book to get if you know your way around a chemistry lab and would like to produce LSD with readily available materials. Includes recipes from companies that have manufactured LSD on a large scale.
Besides the manufacturing information the history and uses of the drug are examined, but to a much lesser degree. With contributions from doctors and therapists that have used LSD to treat patients.
LSD LSD-25 & Tryptamine Syntheses
Overview & Reference Guide
Written with a forensic chemist's eye. Easy to understand and easy to read. This makes it useful not only to law enforcement and lawyers, but anyone interested in making LSD-25 or the Tryptamines.
It goes into detailed descriptions of lab techniques and unravels a lot of terminology that is often misunderstood by the non-chemist. Comprehensive reference guide on the syntheses of LSD-25.
LSD-25 & Tryptamine Syntheses Opium for the Masses:
A Practical Guide to
Growing Poppies and Making Opium
Takes you through the history, chemistry, use, cultivation, harvesting, storage, and other aspects of opium. This is a fairly comprehensive introduction to opium although it is only about 100 pages.
Shows how to extract the drug from legally obtainable sources. There is some information about how to grow and harvest opium poppies, but not enough to be used as a single grow guide.
Opium for the Masses Opium Poppy:
Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
A comprehensive resource that explores the opium poppy's origin, cultivation, distribution, chemistry, uses and abuses from ancient civilizations through the present. It covers plant and seed production and crop improvement, and explores the chemical and pharmaceutical by-products of the opium poppy.
For professionals and students of pharmacy, botany, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, or those with a serious interest in the subject.
Opium Poppy Opium Poppy Garden:
The Way of a Chinese Grower
A good small book (less than 100 pages). Part one, the first two-thirds of the book, is a novel about a young Chinese immigrant opium grower in South America. The second part of the book shows (using black and white photos and illustrations) how to cultivate and harvest the opium poppy outdoors with traditional tools that are easy to make and use.
Although less than 20 pages are about growing opium, it contains enough info to be used as a single introductory opium grow guide. If you grow poppies this book might be worth the price just for the page about how to harvest the opium capsule so it provides a maximum yield.
Opium Poppy Garden OXY
OXY is short for oxycodone, the main ingredient in oxycontin, percocet, percodan, roxycodone and several other pain relief drugs. It is obtained from thebaine primarily found in two types of poppies (Papaver somniferum and Papaver bracteatum). This book describes how to isolate oxycodone and other opium based drugs for yourself.
Includes info about pharmacology, extracting opiate alkaloids from poppy straw and/or poppy capsules, thebaine extraction and purification, preparation of oxycodone from thebaine, morphine extraction from opium, heroin base extraction from morphine, heroin extraction from heroin base and more. Not for the lay person as you will need to know chemistry to preform the task.
OXY Peyote And Other Psychoactive Cacti
Describes growing peyote and other psychoactive cacti. Looks at growing, cloning, grafting, and extracting maximum output of mescaline and other alkaloids. Includes Peyote, San Pedro, Donana and other cacti.
Peyote has been used ceremonially by the native peoples of the Americas as a spiritual medicine for close to 3,000 years. Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti is a concise and readable guide to the art of cultivating peyote, San Pedro, and other entheogenic cacti.
Peyote And Other Psychoactive Cacti PIHKAL:
A Chemical Love Story
The first part of this 1000 page book contains autobiographical accounts of the authors life history and experiments with psychoactive drugs.
The second half is about synthesis, effects, dosages, etc of hundreds of compounds in the phenethylamine family (mescaline, ecstasy, DOM, etc). Get this if you have any interest in the synthesis or effects of nearly any mind expanding drug.
PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story Plants of the Gods:
Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
Comprehensive reference work about psychoactive plants. Lists the plant's common name, botanical name, historical ethnography, purpose of use, preparation, chemical composition, and effects. Includes color and black and white photographs, illustrations, and paintings, a bibliography and index.
Plant species discussed include the Fly Agaric mushroom, Atropa (Deadly Nightshade), Yellow and Black Henbane, Mandrake, Cannabis, Ergot, Datura, Iboga, Yopo beans, Ayahuasca, Yage, Brugmansia, Peyote, San Pedro cactus, Morning Glory, Magic Mushrooms and more.
Plants of the Gods Practical LSD Manufacture
Several procedures for extracting LSD from natural sources, as well as a simple process for extracting the hallucinogenic substance 2, 4, 5-trimethoxy-amphetamine (TMA-2) from the common, widely-available calamus plant.
Practical LSD manufacture for a chemist. This is not recommended for the lay person or anyone else without practical lab experience.
Practical LSD Manufacture Psychedelic Chemistry
One of the first books dealing with clandestine methods of extracting THC from marijuana, making LSD, cocaine, mescaline, harmaline, muscimole and more.
Largely journal entries that have been copied over verbatim from journal articles. Many recipes contain dangerous typos a la the Anarchist's Cookbook.
It is, however, a good source of references where people interested in the chemistry involved can obtain the original journal articles and preform the chemistry correctly.
Psychedelic Chemistry Psychedelic Shamanism:
The Cultivation, Preparation and
Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants
This book is dated, there are better and more recent books available. Advice on growing, preparing for ingestion, and how to handle tripping. Includes belladonna, d-lysergic acid amide, mescaline, ayahuasca, psilocybin, and more.
Psychedelic Shamanism Recreational Drugs
Well illustrated, it covers the equipment, techniques and reagents used in the clandestine manufacture of illegal drugs. Procedures for crystallization, chromatography, distillation and reductions are given for the following types of drugs:
Amphetamines, THC, Analgesics, Hypnotics, Sedatives, and Tranquilizers. Also includes detailed instructions for buying and making precursors.
The book was written in 1989 and some of the methods are obsolete. It is technical, but a person with a strong knowledge of chemistry should have no problem understanding the methods described.
Recreational Drugs Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture:
Including Recipes for MDA, Ecstasy, And Other Psychedelic Amphetamines
It's filled with some great info, and after talking with people who actually manufacture drugs, this book is very accurate.
If you want to make psychedelic amphetamines yourself and are already familiar with chemistry you should have no problem producing your own with the aid of this book.
The manufacturing process is complex and dangerous, so if you have no prior chemistry or meth experience, producing meth is not recommended.
Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture Sources
After years of buying chemicals and science products for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons, the author has translated these experiences into book form for those that find it hard or intimidating to acquire these sorts of things.
In this book are the lists of hundreds of stores and companies throughout the United States and the world that sell chemicals, laboratory products, glassware and organic precursors to both the individual and the professional. Detailed tips and explanations are given.
Sources THC & Tropacocaine
A two part book. The first part deals with the uses and ways of manufacturing THC (the primary active ingredient of marijuana). The second part of the book looks at the uses and ways of manufacturing Tropacocaine from atropine found in plants from the nightshade family. Tropacocaine is longer acting and but less potent than cocaine.
As with most books about manufacturing drugs, this book requires a strong background in chemistry. The layperson will have no idea what the author means if they are not well acquainted with chemistry and working in a lab.
THC & Tropacocaine The Construction and Operation
of Clandestine Drug Laboratories
This book describes how to set up and run a clandestine drug lab without getting caught.
Includes: making high-quality chemistry equipment, how to select a location, safety precautions, how and when to shut down, and advice on covering your tracks.
Basically a manual on making drugs with high-quality chemistry equipment, in clandestine labs. Recommended if you're interested in chemistry of any kind.
Clandestine Drug Laboratories The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual:
A Student's Guide to Techniques
This book is for the beginner chemist. It describes the instruments and techniques that are used in an organic lab. It contains vital directions for obtaining information on organic chemistry labs from the Internet. For the absolute beginner in organic chemistry.
The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual The Simple Plant Isoquinolines
The effects and possible uses of isoquinolines (commonly in Chinese medicine), a compound found in many plants, including cactus and poppies, have still yet to be fully explored. This comprehensive and clear reference work outlines all known varieties of isoquinolines and the plants in which they are found.
With an introduction that offers detailed background information on isoquinolines, journal references, an appendix and a cross indexing of chemical structures, trivial names, plant names and plant family names, this book is both completely accessible and fully informative. Ideal for botanists, chemists and others who would like to do their own research.
The Simple Plant Isoquinolines TIHKAL:
The Continuation
The continuation of PIHKAL, with new age overtones. The first part is, again, about the lives of the authors. The second part is about tryptamine derivatives, their structural chemistry, synthesis and their effects on very willing human volunteers.
If you are interested in this book, get PIHKAL first, if you still have questions after reading it consider this book.
TIHKAL Total Synthesis II
Comprehensive and detailed book on the underground production of ecstasy and amphetamines. Step by step synthesis recipes are given in extensive detail.
Chemists from around the world have contributed their favorite recipes and comments to provide the reader with massive insight and options. Lots of explanatory notes that seem to get omitted from a lot of journals.
A couple of semesters of organic chemistry lab are required. You will need some real chemistry knowledge if you want to even think about attempting a lot of stuff in this book.
Total Synthesis II