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If LSD were so easy to use how come they almost never bust labs

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That recipe, if it is true would mean that making LSD is easier than making meth

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Well 50% LSD mixed with 50% corrosive/poisenous byproducts isn't exactly ready for the market anyway, though at that low of a dose it might not really matter.

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HEEY now Wiccan... that "synth" you posted may create LSD but how much is iso? what are the byproducts? No column?

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That is why amatures and any one who can get a precursor do not make LSD.

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Not true
Amateurs wont let purity issues keep them from "synthing drugs", just look at the appalling quality of the Meth, PCP and Meth-Cat recipies out there. Amateurs seldom undertake this endeavor because they lack access to pure precursors.

If Ergotamine was abundantly present in OTC pills (like that Meth precursor is) then LSD would be all over the place, in all shades of purity.

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Because to make it CORRECTLY requires the knowlege of a master of organic chem,and "artistic" sense of your work, and a willingness to extensively clean ones product using chromatography.

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Ah you're talking LSD Chemist ethics!
The kids nowadays have very little of it. If you don't view LSD as a Celestial Messenger (like we do) but rather as a bigass moneymaker that goes for $10.000 a gram (like your average kid would) then there is no need for chromatography and all that stuff: if the product is only 5% pure its still marketable in the form of geltabs

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separate those willing to take GREAT chances with the law.

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I'd say more than 1 in 5 here would go for it if he really could. The law only counts when you get caught.
This is O.D.D: we are all immortal and untouchable

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Now put ALL of the requirements together in a place which is safe to work in then you make the LSD.

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I have tried to stop people here from evaporating a liter of industrial solvent in their bedroom. I was labeled an alarmist.
People will make it wherever they live, and basically some chems and a tub full of ice are all you need to make it in the back of your car

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The only thing that matters is the availability of pure precursors and associated stuff.

Look at the TiHKAL recipy. If you think you cannot do it you are selling yourself short, Whiterasta. I think you can be meticulous enough and I know you're intelligent enough. (and then some!)

If you can get the chems, associated stuff and a working procedure on a xeroxed sheet of paper most people of IQ 120 and up, with a scientific mindset, can study LSD synthesis and precursor acquisition and end up with a small homemade batch of passable quality LSD in this year or the next.

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A suspension of 3.15 g d-lysergic acid hydrate and 7.1 g of diethylamine in 150 mL chloroform was brought to cook in a closed flask, using a bowl of hot water, with swirling. It was taken from the bowl and there was added 3.4 g POCl3 over the course of 2 min with an eye dropper, at a rate sufficient to maintain boiling. The mixture was held at a boil in the closed flask for an additional 5 min, at which point everything had gone into solution. After returning to room temperature, it was added to 200 mL of 1.7% ammonia. The solvent layer was taken, dried over water-free epsom salt, filtered, and the solvent evaporated to yield LSD

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The bluelighters seem to think it's dangerous and won't work.

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The Bluelighters also believe that you fall off the edge of the earth if you sail too far west. Here there be dragons, yeah right

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In reality, it's not much better than the "Foster Larger" technique that circulated years ago.

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Funny how Shulgin considers it a viable pathway. Theres a consistent tendency among Bluelighters to make originators of ideas they do not quite dig look like retards, such as comparing the trifluoroacetic anhydride synthesis to "Foster's Lager".

Contrary to what you said on Bluelight it was an open thread rather than an email correspondence and in no way am I even remotely intending to make LSD. I'm the guy with the bullhorn, the ones who'll try won't speak out.

I gave this synthetic pathway as an example of the simplicity of some methods of LSD production. Like our resident h4x0r said, I simplified it a bit, however the procedure is of breathtaking simplicity.

Here's how you make high purity LSD with trifluoracetic anhydride:

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Step I. Use Yellow light
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5.36 g of d-lysergic acid are suspended in 125 ml of acetonitrile and the suspension cooled to about -20 C in a bath of acetone cooled with dry ice. To the suspension is added a cold (-20 C) solution of 8.82 g of trifluoroacetic anhydride in 75 ml of acetonitrile. The mixture is allowed to stand at -20 C for about 1.5 hours during which the suspended material dissolves, and the d-lysergic acid is converted to the mixed anhydride of lysergic and trifluoroacetic acids. The mixed anhydride can be separated in the form of an oil by evaporating the solvent in vacuo at a temperature below 0 C, but this is not necessary. Everything must be kept anhydrous.
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The solution of mixed anhydrides in acetonitrile from Step I is added to 150 ml of a second solution of acetonitrile containing 7.6 g of diethylamine. The mixture is held in the dark at room temperature for about 2 hours. The acetonitrile is evaporated in vacuo, leaving a residue of LSD-25 plus other impurities.
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The residue is dissolved in 150 ml of chloroform and 20 ml of ice water. The chloroform layer is removed and the aqueous layer is extracted with several portions of chloroform. The chloroform portions are combined and in turn washed with four 50 ml portions of ice-cold water. The chloroform solution is then dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and evaporated in vacuo.
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Source: Psychedelic Guide to the Preparation of the Eucharist

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Foster's beer indeed

Please notice how you can replace the dry ice/acetone bath (which is OTC btw) with a freezer, as its only objective is to keep the reaction at -20 'C.

Please note that the (highly toxic) solvent does not have to be removed under vacuum because it is about as volatile as ether.

The last (purification) step is optional, but requires only chloroform and sodium sulfate or epsom salt (both OTC laxatives which can be oven-dried to the required anhydrous conditions)

Please also note the absence of inert atmosphere or lighting conditions more demanding rthan a screw-in lightbulb. The only pressing conditions for the reaction is to keep it strictly anhydrous and use well-measured reagents.

Tell me that an expert home extractor of DMT can't do this after studying up on the specifics, if he has the chems and the most basic equipment.

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I am sick and tired of the cynic/nihilist culture among the online psychedelics community. People echo the myths that LSD can only be made by a person of stellar intelligence who is a leading scientist and hindu saint with a million dollar laboratory using reagents that can only be stolen from the DEA headquarters.

This intimidates many bright youths from even looking into methods of LSD production. One of the main reasons for the LSD shortage is that too many people think that it cannot be done.

I'm also tired of interforum rivalry and smiting people of unconventional opinions with thunder until they conform to the norm that it cannot be done and that you cannot ask questions. This is so far removed from the idealism of the First-Generation Psychedelic Movement (which paved the way for us) that it isn't even funny.

IT CAN BE DONE PEOPLE!

The strategic precursor (lysergic acid amides) can be acquired OTC from growing your own ergot from genetic material of the sclerotia that are present in every bag of "organic" rye. (agar work --> liquid culture --> extraction --> purification)
Attached you find the Sandoz process. The liquid culture medium can consist of whole grain rye flour boiled in water to yield a liquid.

I'm convinced LSD itself can be made entirely OTC, though the process will be very involved and unusual.

The chemical equivalent of the elusive Ergotamine Tartrate (ET) can be had OTC through this technique, and in less developed nations it can be ordered and bought locally. You might even find a disillusioned "establishment" chemist willing to do the synth in his own lab.

It can be done people! It's a bit harder than I briefly outlined in the earlier post, but nowhere near as difficult (or even impossible) as most people here think it is.
If you are bright and want to do it, then STFU about your plans to anyone and get busy. Use the internet anonymously to gather the info you need and then proceed.

I'm just here rallying and shouting with a bullhorn that this dream can be dreamt but others may decide in silence to very cautiously start dreaming a dream of their own.