Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:52:45 -0400 
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: LSD recipies
	<1992Sep14.215346.2797@mits.mdata.fi>

Excerpts from netnews.alt.drugs: 14-Sep-92 Re: LSD recipies Jani A.
Heinonen@mits.md (1170)

>Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>>Anarchist's Cookbook.  Most of the things they recommend vary from
>>dangerous to incredibly stupid.  The "recipe" they give for LSD will
>>probably cause liver damage and possibly blindness.
>
>   Don't forget CHROMOSOME DAMAGE! And INSANITY! Seriously, what it
will >make you do is puke. After that, you get drowsy. With a high dose
of the
>LSA and related compounds extracted from the seeds combined with a few
>tokes of good hash might produce some interesting effects.

I'll attempt to respond politely.  The AC's description that I saw for
how to extract LSA's suggested using methanol as a solvent; they did not
suggest a means for getting rid of the methanol after the extraction,
and they did not comment on the dangers of ingesting methanol.  (Which
are liver damage, blindness, or death-- depending on the quantity of
methanol ingested.)  I stand by what I said: you're far better off
buying hits than trying to follow the AC recipe to "manufacture" LSD.

The AC is worse than useless; it's dangerous.  Take a look at the
section on explosives.  I'd bet that more than one person's been
injured, maimed, or even killed trying to make a bomb from their
half-assed instructions.  Disbelieve me if you wish.

>>off buying hits of acid than trying to make some.  LSD is not easy to
>>make; if have to ask on the net, then you don't know enough to make it
>>safely.
>
>   And if you have to repeat idiotic phrases like the above, you probably
>shouldn't post on the net. Someone might be interested in the synthesis
>for informational purposes only. Someone might not have access to a
>university library.

Try looking up 'hypocrite' before you comment on "idiotic phrases".

I'll note that the information is available at any half-decent public
library, not just a university library.  In order to understand it,
though, you need a decent education in the field of chemistry.  A
description of the process is COMPLETELY USELESS without this knowledge;
"informational purposes only" is a meaningless phrase here.

And spare me any comments on 'elitism.'  If you want to understand
something, spend the time, money, and effort to do so.  Knowledge is
something that's earned, not something that can be given away.  I'd
rather not see the 90's equivalent of "bathtub gin" occur with LSD.

Jani Heinonmen, eh?  Well, Jani, are you a practicing chemist?  Have you
ever done a complex titration reaction or used a filtration column?  If
not, I suggest that you look up the subject in a decent college-level
Organic Chemistry book and see whether YOU understand what's going on.

-Chuck

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