Cocaine
How Do People Freebase Cocaine And Make Crack
Note - Using baking soda to FREE the cocaine
BASE from cocaine hydrochloride (regular cocaine) results in a
substance people call crack.
Crack is a less pure form of freebase cocaine than using ammonia
and ether and gets its name from the crackling sound it makes when
smoked.
Using ammonia (and ether) to FREE the cocaine BASE from cocaine
hydrochloride (regular cocaine) results in a substance people call
freebase cocaine.
This form of freeing the base is more time consuming and
dangerous than making crack, but the result is more pure, and can
give a larger yield than converting the same amount of cocaine to
crack would.
While both forms of the drug can be called freebase cocaine, only
crack (baking soda method) can be called crack.
Personal Opinion
I don't recommend doing it.
Procedures
The information I post comes from a used booklet I bought a long
time ago (Cocaine Handbook, by Davis).
Procedures for both substances (crack and freebase cocaine) are
based on the fact that while cocaine hydrochloride (regular cocaine)
requires a high temperature to ignite, base cocaine requires a much
lower temperature to ignite. This makes it ideal for
smoking.
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 of coke HCL to 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.
Common Crack Method
Mix 2 parts of coke HCL (regular cocaine) to 1 part baking soda
in 20 ml of water. Heat solution gently until white precipitates
form, and stop heating when precipitation stops.
After gentle heating, the freebase coke 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.
Just collect the compound that rises to the top, and you have the
finished product.
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.
What Does This Accomplish
By doing something like one of the methods above, the resulting
freebase cocaine is easy to smoke, it requires a lower temperature
to ignite than non freebase cocaine.
If one were to smoke cocaine as is, there would be too much
waste. Some people do smoke cocaine as is, but it is much more
efficient to freebase or make crack.
Warning
Never inject crack or freebase cocaine, it can cause a heart
attack or stroke. Both of which will probably kill you.
Books
A Brief History of Cocaine
A well researched book about drugs in general, but cocaine in
particular. It follows the role cocaine has played in world history,
politics, economics, and science.
Learn how cocaine has been grown, refined, distributed, and
abused around the world for centuries.
The author (a physician/historian) explains why the drug does
what it does and why people use it, and he documents all his
statements of fact with an extensive bibliography.
A
Brief History of Cocaine
Cocaine:
An In-Depth Look at the Facts
Science, History
and Future of the
World's Most Addictive Drug
A very good and easy to understand book that will be of value to
the average reader or the student, interested in cocaine. Includes
information about the history, synthesis, effects, and other aspects
of cocaine.
This book is comprehensive, yet understandable. It will make it
possible for anyone to understand the drug without being boring or
overly technical.
Cocaine,
An In-Depth Look...
Crack in America:
Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Well written, with reliable facts on the medical, legal and
social components of crack in the USA.
If you want reliable information in order to make a personal
decision about crack and how our society might deal with it, this
would be a wise choice.
Crack
in America (paperback) Crack
in America (hardcover)
Dark Alliance:
The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine
Explosion
Very detailed look at how the CIA (the organization entrusted to
prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States)
helped to import and sell crack cocaine on the streets of American
cities.
It shows, with thorough descriptions, how the CIA helped
Nicaraguan Contra rebels ship planeloads of cocaine into the US. In
exchange for cocaine, the Contras got weapons to fight their war in
Nicaragua.
Dark
Alliance (softcover) Dark
Alliance (hardcover)
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