Methamphetamine looks

Prescription amphetamines come in tablet or capsule form. The most common way amphetamines are ingested is by swallowing amphetamine pills or capsules. However, drug abusers also crack open the capsules for the amphetamine powder or grind the tablets into a powder. That powder can then be inhaled or snorted. Mixed with tobacco or marijuana, it can be smoked. The ice form of methamphetamine looks like shaved glass slivers or rock salt and can be smoked in a glass pipe. 

Those propylene species that the authors were using are no different than safrole or aiiyibenzene. In fact, safrole is a perfect substitute. Yowza Those recipes look awesome Now as Strike understands it, there has already been a detailed writeup of the by-the-numbers application of the above patent as written. This, Strike beiieves, can be found in Uncle Fester s Secrets of LSD Manufacture and/or Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufac-ture [18]. But our adventurous chemist Suniight came thru again and submitted a new, hybrid form of this method which she seems to have formulated after a lot of thought on the matter. So here again is Suniight ... 

In other words, we do not have them self-administering these toxic doses. We have done it with some rhesus monkeys that were self-administering methamphetamine. If you give them a regime that depletes the dopamine and serotonin, and then see what alterations there are in self-administration, it does go down, but we have not looked at that. 

Because some countries are still having problems with the exact identification of the substances concerned, it is helpful to look at overall trends in sub-markets together, i.e. methamphetamine, amphetamine and non-identified amphetamines. 

EXTENSIONS AND COMMENTARY This is one of several candidates for clinical use as a substitute for MDMA, but there will ha ve to be a much broader study of its qualitative action in man. It is clearly not psychedelic at these modest levels, and in in vitro animal studies it was apparently inactive as a serotonin releaser. The warped logic for looking at phentermine analogs was discussed in the comments that concerned MDPH. The initials used here have been chosen with care. MDM should not be used as it has found some currency as an abbreviation for MDMA (Methylene-Dioxy-Methamphetamine). MDMP fits neatly with Methylene-Dioxy-Me-Phentermine. 

Ephedra was also sold in combination with many other herbs in obscure combinations. Labels frequently listed 10 or 15 different herbs, but, analysis usually disclosed only the ephedra alkaloids and caffeine as present in sufficient quantities to be physiologically active. After several well-publicized accidental deaths, products clearly intended for abuse, such as herbal ecstasy, and other look-alike drugs (products usually containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine designed to look like illicit methamphetamine, but in concentrations higher than recommended by industry or the FDA) were withdrawn from the market. Labels on these products were frequently misleading. For example, one might suppose that a product called Ephedrine 60 contained 60 mg of ephedrine when, in fact, the actual ephedrine content was 25 mg. 

Valves may be left open or broken off, and large amounts of the product may be released. Individuals involved in the theft can be injured or killed. Persons with cryogenic injuries (cold injuries to the skin—these look like regular thermal bums) or lung injuries involving ammonia may be involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine. 

One of these is Ephedrine where the carbon chain plus aminic tail is CH(0H)CH(CH3)NH(CH3), looking like a close brother of PEA. Ephedrine is a natural product extracted from a plant called Ephedra and used in traditional Chinese medicine. It can also be made in the laboratory. Ephedrine is administered as a stimulant, appetite suppressant, and concentration aid. It seems to work by increasing the activity of norepinephrine. It is used, for example, by professional weightlifters and athletes. Another close brother of PEA is pseudoephedrine, which is a chiral isomer of ephedrine, and it causes vasoconstriction (constriction of blood vessels) and relaxation of smooth muscles, thus leading to bronchial dilation. It is administered for nasal/sinus congestion and difficulty in breathing. Methamphetamine is another... 

Let ns take a look at the structure of pseudoephedrine, shown also in Fig. 17.10, and then compare it to methamphetamine. You see only a small difference between them. Pseudoephedrine is the major ingredient of across-counter nasal decongestant drugs. Some people discovered that pseudoephedrine can be converted to methamphetamine. As you see from the structures in the figure, all you need to do is,... 

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