From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: Freebase=Crack
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:19:41 GMT

bz206@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph Hack) writes:

>sucrose, fructose, et al, are water soluble.  When you make crack, you
>add cocaine-HCl to water and let it dissolve.  Next you add baking soda
>to remove the HCl ion.  Repeated heating/cooling of the mixture helps
>to precipitate the base cocaine, which is not water soluble.  You also
>keep adding baking soda to make sure you get all the base.  You remove
>the precipitate and dry it.  The precipitate is cocaine and some residual
>baking soda (because you added so much to make sure the conversion completed).
>The sugar remains in solution and should not end up in the finished
>product.

Another way I've heard used is to mix the soda and cocaine HCL powder, and
wet it to allow reaction, making crack mush.   The mush is merely allowed to
dry in trays, a dish, etc, with no attempt to seperate the mush into its
componants.  I understand this is not the proper way, and is not the 
method a careful person would use, but only that it is easy and it works.


>I've not only seen it, but I've bought it, used it, and abused it.
>I love it.  I haven't seen anyone decribe the effects yet, so I'll
>give it a shot.  What I've been getting is Aminorex.  Also known as
>Intellex/Verbosimine/Ice/whatever.   Going price is about $75/gram,
>and a gram lasts me about 2 weeks of daily useage.  1 week if I
>really abuse.  It can be snorted, eaten (yuk), or smoked.  Seems
>to last longer when snorted or eaten, but hits faster if you smoke
>it.  Effects are pretty mild....like a mellow methamphetamine high.
>3 or 4 hits usually lasts about 7 or 8 hours.  If you do 7 or 8 hits,
>you start to get a euphoric cocaine-like high, and you will not
>sleep for 24 hours or so.  It was developed as an appetite suppressant,
>and it sure does that.  The first week I tried it, I ate about 2
>full meals, and snacked 4 or 5 times.  Slept about 10 hours total
>during the week.  The best part about this stuff is that it never
>caught up with me.  No hangover.  I quit after a week because I
>was a bit worried about the lack of food and sleep I've been getting.
>I slept about 10 hours and ate a good breakfast the next day.
>I felt fine.  Amazing.  Since then, I've binged a few more times
>with similar results.  Haven't done it now in about 3 weeks.  I
>might do it some more in the future, but I think there must be
>some bad consequences fromm overuse, so I will not make a habit 
>out of it.  BTW, in the first 3 weeks I had this stuff, I lost
>30 pounds.  It has stayed off too. :-)

Very interesting.  I believe you, and I believe that "ice" is real
now.   If it is so good however, I wonder why I have never seen it.
Market forces tend to bring any desireable product into greater use 
once the word gets out.   However, you are the first person I've heard 
admitting to first hand knowledge of it.

Sniffed, smoked and eaten?  Like base and speed or cocaine HCl powder
rolled into one huh?   It must have both a low boiling point and a
high solubility.   If this is like you say, it _has_ to become a high 
demand product sooner or later.   The original reports I read about it
was that people used it for work.  A restaurant manager said it made her
keep going when she was haggard.



Jim Del Vecchio