I heer everyone say that amphetamine is really cheap because it's super cheap and easy to make,, could yo explain how that is? Why amphetamine is super cheap but its perscription counterpart and other similiar drugs are not?
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I heer everyone say that amphetamine is really cheap because it's super cheap and easy to make,, could yo explain how that is? Why amphetamine is super cheap but its perscription counterpart and other similiar drugs are not?
[7 Points] phacid:
[5 Points] noonehear:
Welcome to the world of big pharma...
[2 Points] ILikeToThrowAwaaayy:
Amphetamine is a two step process. Aquire precursor P2NP and a reducing agent such as mercury amalgam or lithium hydride, mix them together (death or severe injury or heavy metal poisoning extremely likely if you do not have basic-level chemistry degree skills). Result is a mix of everything you started with and a lot of amphetamine.
Take advantage of polarities to extract a lot of crap you dont want,isolating amphetamine in an organic phase. Add sulphuric acid to product amphetamine sulphate salt. Tada - you now have speed paste.
Whilst relative pure it is not >95% pure unless you undergo recrystalisation or washing. Pharmaceutical products are legally required to state the components and know roughly at what quantity. Costs more to produce high quality stuff and more to produce it into pills and package it all to the legal demands. Add on top the brand name value - generic is usually dirt cheap - and you have pricey pills. The popularity yet short supply on DNMs means stupidly high prices.
Buy speed paste, wash it yourself (only takes a few minutes), dry it and you have a white fluffy powder free of most impurities. You can dose it as you please, even stick it in gelatine capsules for storage or carrying it around. Much cheaper, although easier to become addicted and habit forming.
[2 Points] Vendor_BBMC:
Amphetamine uses phenylacetone as its primary precursor. Its a "watched" chemical but can be made a bunch of ways from unwatched ones.
It results in racemic amphetamine ie 50/50 mix of two "stereoisomers" which are mirror images of each other, like your left and right hands are.
Think of them as two keys which fit the locks in your brain in different ways.
I think adderall is 75% the good one and 25% the crap one or something. Just a bullshit excuse to justify big pharma selling speed to American housewives, but not drug dealers called "Mad Dog".
Its a mixture of salts, the citrate etc rather than sulphate. Sometimes street speed is "paste" because it hasnt had a post- reaction workup, and still contains solvent, phenylacetone and sulphuric acid.
Apart from that, they have the same effects.
"Crank" or racemic meth is a better use of phenylacetone, to make it more-effective and safer than "plain" amphetamine..
"Crystal" meth or "Ice" is 100% D meth, and must be made from ephedrine or pseudoephedrine.
[1 Points] heyfreshhhhh:
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[1 Points] None:
because home presses are obviously going to cost more. Requires a really expensive pill pressing machine, more time, extra risk, plus more difficult opsec for shipping.
Because they can make the prescriptions whatever price they want as they are dominating the market.