The best book ever written in the field of clandestine chemistry has just gotten better in a new 8th edition. I have trained the champions of the field of clandestine chemistry for over 20 years, and this book gives the new techniques required for this constantly evolving field. I have uncovered a very easily done and supplied method for cooking your own ephedrine and pseudoephedrine from health food store and hardware store materials. This completely eliminates the need to show ID and buy adultered and expensive pills containing these materials. I have also reconfigured older recipes to make use of the weaker or polluted materials now commonly found on hardware store shelves. This 8th edition shows the futlility of politically motivated attempts by pandering politicians to regulate the private lives of individuals.
Earlier editions of this work correctly get a lot of shit from knowledgeable reviewers (see Erowid and the other usual suspects), but by the eighth try, Fester (Steve Preisler) has locked everything down pretty well. Given his background in biochemistry (and clear willingness to involve some hand-dirtying work, as seen in Practical LSD Manufacture's chapter on infecting rye and harvesting the result for extraction of ergotamine), I'm surprised he doesn't cover the work this century regarding production of l-PAC (right stereoisomer of phenylacetylcarbinol, trivially taken to ephedrine, and then stepped up in a bit of fourth-grade chloro+catalytic hydrogenation to your friend and mine) via benzaldehyde's bioconversion among Torulaspora delbrueckii, but who knows.
Only Fester, Clandestine Chemist can show you. Went through 8th edition, include European Variation, by Geert Hendricks and Russian Advance but no 'Shake and Bake' discussed.
The book is decent. It has 8 editions and none of them have subtracted any content, so it’s unnecessarily long. Most of it is already outdated, as precursors have been prohibited or the means have become outrageously expensive.
If you want a somewhat viable option, check out the chapters on oxidating toluene to benzaldehyde, brewing or cooking your own ephedrine and converting that to your favorite molecule (toluene - benzaldehyde - L-PAC - ephedrine - mæth). I don’t quite remember but I think the last step could be done with zinc powder or smth cheap.
I’ve also seen the chemistry of the book be strongly criticized on Erowid and Reddit. I would have no idea as I’m a complete ignorant on the matter, so just watch out. In any case I think the book is good if you want to go from zero knowledge to some. Also keep in mind all this shit is toxic and dirty.
Hillitöntä ja hauskaa sekoilua Loompanicsin hengessä (kustantaja). Toivottavasti kukaan ei ottanut kirjaa vakavasti ja yrittänyt perustaa tehdasta autotalliin :D :D :D