How do you make cocaine?

[Puck]

how hard is it? can it be done at home? What do you need? all i know about it is what the plant is called that they make coke from (can't spell it though. its something like erithroxinal). what are the risks (other than jail time)? i want details!

[LuLubell]

Go to you tube and look it up. There are a lot of documentaries on the process. It doubt any of them gives you the exact recipe, but it's kinda cool to watch how they do it. I doubt you would want to do it after watching. From what I saw, it takes a lot of work and leaves to make a small amount. They used old Gasoline in one video.

[LSDXMDMA]

Yeah your not gonna synthesize cocaine at home dude, it just ain't going to happen. As for cultivating coca and making it into coke at your home, probably not going to happen either. Would not be worth the time or the effort. Just leave it to the South Americans to grow it and process it into cola and buy it when it hits the States.

[Puck]

Lol. *advice taken* Will do (in regards to both posts).

[girl]

want to know how to make crack instead?

[MMAfan23]

You can do it at your house, if you can get some of the necessary chemicals that are hard to get in the US, but you'll need a shitload of coca leaves and that's where the problem comes in.

Here's a rough outline just from a quick google search, if you looked deeper there's full synthesis's online...

# cocaine sulphate - pasta, basuco, basa, pitillo, paste. This is the low-grade stuff that reaches the urban slums of South America. The sulphate is the intermediate stage between the coca leaf and the finished cocaine hydrochloride crystal. Coca leaves are stripped from the plant. They are put into plastic pit with a solution of water and dilute sulphuric acid. A bare-footed man will climb into the pit; step on the mess; and shove it around with his hands. In South America, coca paste in commonly mixed with tocacco and smoked.

# cocaine hydrochloride - an odourless, white crystalline powder. It has a bitter, numbing taste. Cocaine hydrochloride is a stable, hydrophilic salt. Thus it can be snorted and absorbed through the nasal mucosa. Absorption at around 20-30% is still relatively poor. It is limited by the drug's tendency to cause vasoconstriction. Making cocaine hydrochloride is quite complicated. The pasta is first washed in kerosene. It is then chilled. The kerosene is removed. Gas crystals of crude cocaine are left at the bottom of the tank. Typically, the crystals are dissolved in methyl alcohol. They are then recrystallised and dissolved once more in sulphuric acid. Further washing, oxidation and separation procedures involve potassium permanganate, benzole, and sodium carbonate.

http://www.cocaine.org/process.html

[IzzySnuffer]

You can do it at your house, if you can get some of the necessary chemicals that are hard to get in the US, but you'll need a shitload of coca leaves and that's where the problem comes in.

Here's a rough outline just from a quick google search, if you looked deeper there's full synthesis's online...



http://www.cocaine.org/process.html

This. To the OP, you remind me of myself when I was younger. I always wanted to synthesize my own shit, and was completely convinced that I could do so without fail, only having to order a few chemicals off the internet and I'd be good. In reality, however, you most likely cannot possibly make coke in your apartment/house. Most drugs used in a non-natural form (which is at least 75% of legal and illegal drugs sold in the US) are going to be perfected in a laboratory setting before being taken out to the public. While SOME chemical processes can be done using basic kitchen shit and a little bit of common sense (such as cooking crack from coke; making QWISO hash; etc), most you will need a real lab setting to be able to perform (not to mention at least bachelor's degree in chemistry would help). Being able to make your own cocaine would be good, considering the current levamisole contamination, but it's most definitely not very likely, and even if possible would require MUCH more than your average American can obtain.

[LSDXMDMA]

I hope you got a lot of money in the piggy bank if your going to attempt this one. Unless you are just hell bent on processing your own cocaine, then the money and time invested seems like more of a loss then it is a gain. If you want pure coke then look up the acetone wash. Not trying to rain on anyones parade, hell if you go through with this then major props to you as your one hell of a chemist.

[stringtheory]

There is a youtube video showing some guy in Columbia using mostly ammonia, lime and diesel gasoline. Here is the video.

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I AGREE

[MMAfan23]

Just because I was curious as to what chemicals are involved in the synthesis I decided to find a complete synthesis online so here's one for you. Theoretically all of these chemicals are easily attainable, it's just getting a few kilos of coca leaves to make it worthwhile that's the problem. If you could do that you could easily make cocaine in your house. Here's the complete synthesis from coca leaves to coca paste to cocaine sulfate to cocaine HCL...

--Step 1

The coca leaves are put in an above-ground container or in a plastic lined

pit. An alkaline material (sodium carbonate) and water are added to the

leaves. Here the alkaline material enables the cocaine alkaloid present in

the leaf to be extracted into kerosene.

--Step 2

A water immiscible solvent (kerosene) is added to water, solution, and

leaves. The mixture is then agitated. Usually this is accomplished by having

several people stomp on the leaves. The solvent acts to extract water

insoluble cocaine alkaloids from the alkaline solution.

--Step 3

Cocaine alkaloids and kerosene separate from water and leaves. The water and

leaves are then drained off.

--Step 4

Cocaine alkaloids are extracted from the kerosene into a dilute acid

solution. Alkaline material (sodium carbonate) is added to the remaining

solution which causes a precipitate to form . The acid and the water are

drained off and the precipitate is filtered and dried to produce coca paste,

a chunky, off-white to light brown, putty-like

substance.

Coca Paste to Cocaine Base

The processing of coca paste into cocaine base is more complicated than paste

production, requiring more sophisticated equipment and added skills. Cocaine

base can be processed at the paste facility, but base laboratories may be

located away from the cultivation zones. Usually the base laboratories are

located near rivers or have a clandestine airstrip located in the vicinity to

facilitate both the movement of coca paste into the base laboratory, but also

the movement of cocaine base to cocaine HCl laboratories.

As with the paste recipes, the base recipes have many versions. This one is

one of the more common and a continuation of the paste recipe.

--Step 1

The coca paste is added to sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid and water. The

paste is dissolved into the acid solution.

--Step 2

Potassium permanganate is combined with water. This mixture is added to the

coca paste and acid solution. Potassium permanganate is used in this step to

extract other alkaloids and material that is undesired in the final product.

In particular, potassium permanganate is used to break down the alkaloid

ciscinnamoylcocaine found in large concentrations in E. novogranatense

varieties. If the coca paste has a high concentration of this alkaloid and

potassium permanganate is not used, then crystallization of cocaine HCl will

be very difficult.

--Step 3

This mixture is allowed to stand for about six hours.

--Step 4

The solution is filtered and the precipitate is discarded. Ammonia water is

added to the filtered solution and another precipitate is formed.

--Step 5

The liquid is drained from the solution and the remaining precipitate is

usually dried with heating lamps. The resulting powder is cocaine base.

It is common in Colombia to skip the base stage of cocaine processing and go

right from coca paste to cocaine HCl. This can be accomplished by eliminating

the last part of step number four in coca paste processing and skipping to

step number two of the cocaine base phase where the coca paste is added to

the potassium permanganate solution.

Cocaine Base to Cocaine Hydrochloride (HCl)

The final stage of cocaine processing requires even more skill and equipment,

and is much more dangerous than the previously mentioned steps. Unlike paste

and base processing, cocaine HCl processing calls for expensive chemicals

that are harder to find and often not manufactured in the processing country.

The HCl laboratory usually consists of several buildings including

dormitories, eating facilities, an office, storage facilities, and the

laboratory itself. Also usually found at HCl laboratories are communications

operations, generators, filtering and drying equipment, and, more recently,

chemical recycling facilities. The HCl laboratory will sometimes have direct

access to an airstrip.

The following recipe is a continuation of the above two. At this point the

methods of processing vary only slightly.

--Step 1

Acetone or ether is added to dissolve the cocaine base and the solution is

filtered to remove undesired material.

--Step 2

Hydrochloric acid diluted in acetone or ether is added to the cocaine

solution. The addition of the hydrochloric acid causes the cocaine to

precipitate (crystallize) out of the solution as cocaine hydrochloride.

--Step 3

The remaining acetone/ether solvent can be discarded or reused.

--Step 4

Cocaine HCl is dried under heat lamps, laid out to dry with the aid of fans,

or dried in microwave ovens.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/cocccp.htm

Here's a quick list from that of what's needed chemically...

- Sodium Carbonate (known as Soda Ash and used as an everyday water softener, easily attainable)
- Water (obviously attainable)
- Kerosene (same as water)
- Sulfuric or Hydrochloric Acid (a little harder to get but you can get it online if you look around)
- Potassium Permanganate (only needed if making cocaine base, which can be skipped but to attain it you can use it for a ton of stuff... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate)
- Ammonia (only needed if making cocaine base, easily attainable)
- Acetone or Ether (Ether is just car starting fluid and acetone is easy to get online)

Based off of the ingredients list if you could get the leaves you could easily make your own cocaine, granted you had the chemistry knowledge and could figure out how much of each chemical to use.

[white-powder]

well im no sciance genius but ive been researching this today and infact you CAN make cocaine at home. i found the whole synthesis online. the awesome part about this my friends is you need no coca leaves for it. the chemical found in coca leaves is ecgonine or methylecgonine i do believe (it says in the synthesis) and you then mess around with than a bit and eventually end up with an end product of pretty much pure cocaine.. im on the fence right now about wether i should try this. it doesnt seem too complicated but im only 16 but i have done many extractions and conversions of druugs and this one seems pretty procise and detailed. wouldnt recommend it to anyone with an IQ under 100... just saying haha but anyways heres the whole synthesis. if anyone does have luck PLEASE do take notes and let me know.


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Welcome to the complete guide of how to make cocaine. If you do
everything right you are going to be king of the world, either in your
own world or in the real world. Please read the disclaimer at the end of
this text.

Now, let's get to action!

The basic formula for cocaine starts by purchasing or making tropinine,
converting the tropinone into 2-carbomethoxytropinone (also known as
methyl-tropan-3-one-2-carboxylate), reducing this to ecgonine,
and changing that to cocaine.

Succindialdehyde. This can be purchased, too. 23.2 g of succinaldoxime
powder in 410 ml of 1 N sulfuric acid and add dropwise with stirring at
0* a solution of 27.6 g of sodium nitrite in 250 ml of water over
3 hours. After the addition, stir and let the mixture rise to room temp
for about 2 hours, taking care not to let outside air into the reaction.
Stir in 5 g of Ba carbonate and filter. Extract the filtrate with ether
and dry, evaporate in vacuo to get the succindialdehyde. This was t
aken from JOC, 22, 1390 (1957). To make succinaldoxime, see JOC, 21,
644 (1956).

Complete Synthesis of Succindialdehyde. JACS, 68, 1608 (1946). In a 2 liter
3 necked flask equipped with a stirrer, reflux condenser, and an addition
funnel, is mixed 1 liter of ethanol, 67 g of freshly distilled pyrrole, and
141 g of hydroxylamine hydrochloride. Heat to reflux until dissolved, add
106 g of anhydrous sodium carbonate in small portions as fast as reaction
will allow. Reflux for 24 hours and filter the mixture. Evaporate the
filtrate to dryness under vacuo. Take up the residue in the minimum amount
of boiling water, decolorize with carbon, filter and allow to recrystallize
in refrigerator. Filter to get product and concentrate to get additional
crop. Yield of succinaldoxime powder is a little over 40 g, mp is 171-172*.

5.8 g of the above powder is placed in a beaker of 250 ml capacity and
54 ml of 10% sulfuric acid is added. Cool to 0* and add in small portions
of 7 g of sodium nitrite (if you add the nitrite too fast, nitrogen dioxide
fumes will evolve). After the dioxime is completely dissolved, allow the
solution to warm to 20* and effervescence to go to completion. Neutralize
the yellow solution to litmus by adding small portions of barium carbonate.
Filter off the barium sulfate that precipitates. The filtrate is 90% pure
succindialdehyde and is not purified further for the reaction to create
tropinone. Do this procedure 3 more times to get the proper amount for the
next step, or multiply the amounts given by four and proceed as described
above.

Take the total amount of succinaldehyde (obtained from 4 of the above
syntheses combined) and without further treatment or purification (this had
better be 15.5 g of succindialdehyde) put into an Erlenmeyer flask of
4-5 liters capacity. Add 21.6 g of methylamine hydrochloride, 46.7 g of
acetonedicarboxylic acid, and enough water to make a total volume of 2
liters. Adjust the pH to 8-10 by slowly adding a saturated solution of
disodium phosphate. The condensate of this reaction (allow to set for
about 6 days) is extracted with ether, the ethereal solution is dried
over sodium sulphate and distilled, the product coming over at 113* at
25 mm of pressure is collected. Upon cooling, 14 g of tropinone
crystallizes in the pure state.

2-Carbomethoxytropinone. A mixture of 1.35 g of sodium methoxide
(this is sodium in a minimum amount of methanol), 3.5 g of tropinone,
4 ml of dimethylcarbonate and 10 ml of toluene is refluxed for 30 min.
Cool to 0* and add 15 ml of water that contains 2.5 g of ammonium chloride.
Extract the solution after shaking with with four 50 ml portions of
chloroform, dry, evaporate the chloroform in vacuo. Dissolve the oil
residue in 100 ml of ether, wash twice with a mixture of 6 ml of
saturated potassium carbonate and three ml of 3 N KOH. Dry and evaporate
in vacuo to recover the unreacted tropinone. Take up the oil in a solution
of aqueous ammonium chloride and extract with chloroform, dry, and evaporate
in vacuo to get an oil. The oil is dissolved in hot acetone, cool, and
scratch inside of flask with glass rod to precipitate
2-carbomethoxytropinone. Recrystallize 16 g of this product in 30 ml of hot
methyl acetate and add 4 ml of cold water and 4 ml of acetone. Put in
freezer for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Filter and wash the precipitate with cold
methyl acetate to get pure product.

Methylecgonine. 0.4 mole of tropinone is suspended in 80 ml of ethanol
in a Parr hydrogenation flask (or something that can take 100 psi and not
react with the reaction, like stainless steel or glass). 10 g of Raney
Nickle is added with good agitation (stirring or shaking) followed by
2-3 ml of 20% NaOH solution. Seal vessel, introduce 50 psi of hydrogen
atmosphere (after flushing vessel with hydrogen) and heat to 40-50*.
After no more uptake of hydrogen (pressure gauge will hold steady after
dropping to its lowest point) bleed off pressure and filter the nickle off,
rinse out bottle with chloroform and use this rinse to rinse off the nickle
while still on the filter paper. Make the filtrate basic with KOH after
cooling to 10*. Extract with chloroform dry, and evaporate the chloroform
in vacuo to get an oil. Mix the oil plus any precipitate with an equal
volume of dry ether and filter. Add more dry ether to the filtrate until
no more precipitate forms, filter and add to the rest of the precipetate.
Recrystallize from isopropanol to get pure methylecgonine. Test for activity.
If active, skip down to the step for cocaine. If not active, proceed as
follows. Stir with activated carbon for 30 min, filter, evaporate in vacuo,
dissolve the brown liquid in methanol, and neutralize with 10% HCl acid in
dry ether. Evaporate the ether until the two layers disappear, and allow to
stand for 2 hours at 0* to precipitate the title product. There are many
ways to reduce 2-carbomethoxytropinone to methylecgonine. I chose to design
a Raney Nickle reduction because it is cheap and not as suspicious as LAH
and it is much easier than zinc or sodium amalgams.

Cocaine. 4.15 g of methylecgonine and 5.7 g of benzoic anhydride in 150 ml
of dry benzene are gently refluxed for 4 hours taking precaution against
H20 (the 2 should be on a lower level) in the air (drying tube). Cool in an
ice bath, acidify carefully with hydrochloric acid, dry, and evaporate in a
vacuum to get a red oil which is treated with a little portion of isopropanol
to precipitate cocaine.

As you can see, this is quite a chore. The coca leaves give ecgonine, which
as you can see, is only a jump away from cocaine. If you can get egconine,
then dissolve 8 1/2 g of it in 100 ml of ethanol and pass (bubble) dry HC1
gas through this solution for 30 min. Let cool to room temp and let stand
for another 1 1/2 hours. Gently reflux for 30 min and evaporate in vacuo.
Basify the residue oil with NaOH and filter to get 8.4 g of methylecgonine,
which is converted to cocaine as in the cocain step above.

Below is given a somewhat easier method of producing tropinone by the
general methods of Willstatter, who was instrumental in the first synthetic
production of cocaine and several other alkaloids. After reviewing this
method, I found it to be simpler than the above in many respects.

Tropinone. 10 g of pyrrolidinediethyl diacetate are heated with 10 g of
cymene and 2 g of sodium powder, the reaction taking place at about 160*.
During the reaction (which is complete in about 10 min) the temp should not
exceed 172*. The resulting reaction product in dissolved in water, then
saturated with potassium carbonate, and the oil, which separates, is boiled
with dilute sulfuric acid. 2.9 g of tropinone picrate forms and is filtered.

Here are two more formulas devised by Willstatter that produce tropinone
from tropine. Take note of the yield differences.

Tropinone. To a solution of 25 g tropine, dissolved in 10 times its weight
of 20% sulfuric acid are added 25 g of a 4% solution of potassiumpermanganate
in 2 or 3 g portions over 45 min while keeping the temp at 10-12*. The
addition of permanganate will cause heat (keep the temp 10-12*) and
precipitation of manganese dioxide. The reaction mixture is complete in
1 hour. A large excess of NaOH is added and the reaction is steam distilled
until 1 liter of distillate has been collected. The tropinone is
isolated as the dibenzal compound by mixing the distillate with 40 g of
benzaldehyde in 500 cc of alcohol and 40 of 10% sodium hydroxide solution.
Let stand several days to get dibenzaltropinone as yellow needles.
Yield: 15.5 g, 28%. Recrystallize from ethanol to purify.

Tropinone. A solution of 12 g of chromic acid in the same amount of
water (12 g) and 60 g of glacial acetic acid is added dropwise with stirring
over a period of 4 hours to a solution of 25 g of tropine in 500 cc of
glacial acetic acid that has been warmed to 60-70* and is maintained at this
temp during the addition. Heat the mixture for a short time on a steam bath
until all the chromic acid has disappeared, cool and make strongly alkaline
with NaOH. Extract with six 500 cc portions of ether and evaporate the ether
in vacuo to get an oil that crystallizes readily. Purify by convering to the
picrate or fractionally distill, collecting the fraction at 224-225* at
714 mm vacuo.

The tropinones can be used in the above formula (or in a formula that you
have found elsewhere) to be converted to cocaine. Remember to recrystallize
the 2-carbomethoxytropinone before converting to methylecgonine.


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