ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/alt.drugs/cocaine-howto Sat, 20 Feb 93 TOPICS Subject: Crack and Freebase Subject: Intranasal Cocaine Administration Subject: Crack / Rock Cocaine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Anonymous <[n--bo--y] at [nowhere]> Subject: Crack and Freebase 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. ------------------------------ From: Anonymous <[n--bo--y] at [nowhere]> Subject: Intranasal Cocaine Administration insofar as cocaine use is concerned, i have - after many years of foolishly self-destructive behavior - discovered a very nice way to do coke. take a nasal decongestant sprayer bottle, empty it. take a small amount of powdered cocaine - 1/4 to 1/2 a gram - and dissolve it in maybe a cubic inch of water. add a drop or two of vodka or other ethanol. stir it. the cocaine dissolves into the water, leaving the cut(s) on the bottom, a side benefit i didn't originally anticipate. pour the solution - a 7% solution, if i may offer a nickname - into yon vile vial, and apply to your nasal cavities, judiciously. if overfilled, you will get a jet of solution. otherwise, you get a nice mix of solution and air in a mist that dissolves easily into your nasal passages, with consequent bodily effects approximately equivalent to a cup of coffee. this is advantageous for many, many reasons ... (a) no waste. you get exactly what your body can absorb, and no crumbs clinging to your nasal passages and falling down your front. you don't get so much that the effect borders on toxicity, as you do when doing lines. and you can make a 1/2 gram last up to a week, in this fashion. (b) no paraphernalia. this fits nicely into a night bag with toothbrush or toothpaste, and is bust-free, in the car, on one's person, at one's desk, or crossing international borders. no razors, no straws, no mirrors, no 'bullets' or little brown vials waiting to fall out of your pocket. (c) no addictive sequence. it's much easier to forego tooting when using at this level, and put it aside for the night, instead of staying up 'til the wee hours. and it combines with being productive about the same way that coffee does. ( i have also applied small amounts of methamphetamine in this fashion, with similar low-impact effects. ) It's really a shame that the Establishment doesn't apply itself to teaching people how to use drugs intelligently and creatively, since, clearly, such paths to competence and maturity exist. If I had known ten years ago what I have learned through much reading and thinking, I would have saved myself a lot of money, and, more importantly, a lot of grief and self-destructive behavior which I have, fortunately, survived. Please perpetuate this information as widely as possible, the better to teach people how to avoid addictive behavioral sequences while continuing to explore the realms of awareness in a mature and thoughtful manner. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:21:26 -0500 From: (anonymous) Subject: Crack / Rock Cocaine Let me first say that this is also freebase. Its not as pure as the other recipe and has a *much smaller return* than using ammonia (no one really does the ether part, just ammonia and heat it). >}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. After gentle heating, it will float to the top, any excess soda will precipitate to the bottom. Given that, you'd never filter it, and the 24 hour heat lamp thing is unrealistic, too. Note that what you're trying to do is start and sustain a chemical reaction (bonding the hcl with the base-soda) so as long as the reaction is happening you don't have to continue heating. ------------------------------ End of ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/alt.drugs/cocaine-howto ***********************************************************