From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: rock cocaine, ephadrine
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:30:08 GMT
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'

fehlers@cs.utexas.edu (Todd Ehlers) writes:
>Sorry if this has been addressed here before, but if noone wants to talk about
>it i'll just post again with something interesting like vitamin C or stricnine.
>
>What is the method used to make crack cocaine?  Not that I'm interested in making
>it (honest).


From someone else:
}	I want first to express my personal opinion that freebasing is
}a very bad thing to do for your body and mind. I have seen a few
}people hooked on it, and it is not a nice thing to see. I strongly
}disrecommend doing it. It is easy to overdose and die of cardiac
}arrest. Some people doing freebase will exhibit the same kind of
}behavior as those rats whose pleasure centers are electrically
}stimulated: they will do it until either the supply runs out, or until
}they die.
}
}	The recipes are readily available. In fact, a few years ago,
}police officers would go to great lengths explaining how crack was
}made when given interviews (at least in Montreal)! There was also an
}article in Time a few years ago explaining the procedures.
}
}	I have never tried any of those procedures or smoked freebase,
}and will never do it. The information I post comes from a used booklet
}I bought a long time ago ("Cocaine Handbook", by Davis).
}
}	Crack is actually a impure form of freebase. Procedures for
}both substances are based on the fact that while cocaine hydrochloride
}is very soluble in water, base cocaine is almost insoluble. 
}
}	freebase:
}
}	mix about 1 g of coke in 10 ml of water in a small vial.
}Slowly add drops of ammonia to the solution. A white milky precipitate
}will form. Stop adding ammonia when additional drops no longer result
}in precipitation. Add 5 ml of ethyl ether, close vial, and shake. The
}precipitate (freebase) will dissolve in the ether. Siphon off the
}ether with a pipette (ether and water don't mix), and slowly drip it
}on a plate. As the ether evaporates, white crystals will form. This is
}the evil freebase. Crush the crystals and put under a heat lamp for at
}least 24 hrs to let the solvent evaporate.
}
}	ETHYL ETHER IS EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE. IN THE PRESENCE OF AIR IT
}CAN FORM PEROXIDES WHICH WILL SPONTANEOUSLY EXPLODE! ALSO, ETHER CAN
}"CRAWL" FROM AN OPEN BOTTLE AND TRIGGER AN EXPLOSION MANY FEET AWAY. 
}
}	This is how Richard Pryor almost died. A lot of untrained
}people killed themselves doing that procedure, and this is why crack
}is now more popular.
}
}crack:
}
}	mix 2 parts ok coke HCL for 1 part baking soda in 20 ml of
}water. Heat solution gently until white precipitates form, and stop
}heating when precipitation stops. Filter and keep precipitate. wash
}precipitate once with water (this procedure usually omitted in street
}product). Dry 24 hours under heat lamp. Voila. The product is much
}less pure (there is lots of baking soda left) but the procedure is
}safer.

-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu
  "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
                                      -- Robert Anton Wilson