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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: anton on May 12, 2013, 11:14 am

Title: Synthetic cocaine
Post by: anton on May 12, 2013, 11:14 am
 An extract from Alexander Shulgin - Drugs of Abuse in the Future

cocaine (21). There appears to be a recent increase in popularity and usage of the drug, although much of that which is claimed to be cocaine is extensively diluted with procaine 160] and methedrine
[61]. Classically the drug has been obtained from the Coca tree, which is native to South America. However, the growing
popularity of the drug and the extremely high price demanded in illicit trade have attracted the attention of the underground
synthetic chemists, and there is indeed evidence that the drug is currently being synthesized [62]. It is true that cocaine of legitimate
commerce is already semisynthetic. The crude coca alkaloids are saponified to the compound ecgonine, which can be easily
reconstituted to pure cocaine by benzoylation and esterification with methyl alcohol.
 
The total synthesis of ecgonine (and thus of cocaine) is more tedious. However, the procedures have been in the chemical literature
for decades (63) and employ easily available starting materials.


Are there any cocaine users that have experienced this first hand?
Title: Re: Synthetic cocaine
Post by: lunarpursuit on May 12, 2013, 07:54 pm
NO!

Soooooo curious, though.

My buddy stayed in Tokyo longer than I did when we were out visiting last summer and he told me he came across some crazy kind of synthetic coke they call "Wheelie"

Some Aussie he met that had pointed him in the right direction to get high in the first place told him to just do a bump, so of course he did a fat rail and was high for some ten hours, wound up partying with a bunch of tatted-up Yakuza gangsters kicking their asses at foos-ball. Fucking hysterical.