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ephedrine to methamphetamine. If in this reaction the ephedrine is not
fairly free of the fillers and binders found in the stimulant pills from
which it is extracted, the result at the end of the reaction is a heavy
reduction in the yield of product, and the formation of a most stubborn
emulsion from which the desired meth is extracted only with
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LSD Production: An Overview
great difficulty. This is the origin of the revolting peanut butter
consistency of most meth seen on the market. Similarly, one can only
expect success in the production of high-grade LSD if care is taken
throughout the procedure to ensure that the materials used meet the
requirement of a reasonable degree of purity.
The actual synthesis of LSD is an exquisite combination of
farming skills, biology, biochemistry and organic chemistry. In its
preferred embodiment, a scheme for the large-scale manufacture of
LSD would center around someone playing weekend hobby farmer on an
acre or two of land. On this land, our happier-than-most farmer
would plant either rye to be infested with the Claviceps fungus to
produce a crop of ergot; morning glories for the eventual harvest of
their seeds; or, if local weather conditions permit, Hawaiian baby
woodrose, also for the harvest of its seeds.
Mother Nature's bounty is then squirreled off to the lab site for
the biochemical phase of the process — the isolation of the lysergic
alkaloids. Here one or more of a series of alkaloids are freed from the
very complex plant matrix and hopefully isolated in a pure form.
These alkaloids all have one thing in common — they are amides of
lysergic acid. See the structures of the major naturally occurring
amides pictured below:
Practical LSD Manufacture
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They all contain the lysergic acid molecule shown below:
The lysergic acid molecule is the key to all known methods of
LSD production. The common thread that all the synthetic routes to
LSD share is that the path they travel starts with the naturally
occurring alkaloids, the amide linkage is lopped off to give lysergic
acid, and then the lysergic acid is reacted with diethylamine to give
LSD shown below:
The nuts and bolts of how this is done will be explained in the
succeeding chapters.
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Sources Of The
Lysergic Amides
Let me begin this chapter by nuking an oft-chanted mantra, this
mantra being the claim that a person can grow ergot fungus in a
culture medium and get it to produce lysergic acid amides to feed into
LSD production. This claim as seen in Psychedelic Chemistry and
other publications I read while in college is pure BS. It is truly
unfortunate that nature does not cooperate in this manner, since this
would obviously be the best way to set up a large-scale production
operation, as the logistical complications of crop growth and harvest
would then be eliminated.
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