Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs

A chemist from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, who was in Bolivia to observe clandestine cocaine operations, related the following step-by-step procedure for manufacturing cocaine. The method can be conveniently divided into three major steps (1) extraction of cocaine from the leaf and chemical conversion to the sulfate (2) treatment of cocaine sulfate with potassium permanganate and conversion to the free base (aka paste) and (3) conversion of the paste or free base to cocaine hydrochloride. In general, steps (1) and (2) are carried out in sulfate labs while step (3) is performed in crystal labs. 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), 10 553 12 34 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), 18 685... 

A new agency in the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, merges several organizations previously responsible for control of drugs used unlawfully. 

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, involving Pennwalt s use of Mexican subsidiaries to provide illicit channels of drug traffic in the United States with amphetamines. The BNDD discovered major accounting discrepancies between the amounts of amphetamine Pennwalt claimed it shipped to Mexico and the amount of amphetamine that actually arrived in Mexico. 

Up until recently, these two tests, in conjunction with botanical examination of plant samples, were the methods relied upon by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in identifying marihuana. 

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