Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufact

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture (3rd ed.) by Uncle Fester
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION
This book is the result of six years experience in the field of manufacturing methamphetamine. It contains virtually everything I know about the subject. There are a lot of secrets in this area, hence the title Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture.
A thorough review of the scientific literature on this subject will show that the descriptions of this process are, at best, vague and imprecise, at worst, downright wrong. The Russian journals are especially unreliable.
There are two reasons for this. First of all, the companies holding patents on the processes want to keep their trade secrets secure, so they disclose no more than is absolutely necessary to obtain their patents. Secondly, the articles written by university scientists cover the making of large numbers of compounds and so do not delve deeply into the details of making any particular one.
This book fills the glaring gap in published scientific literature. The reader receives the benefit of my lengthy scientific education at expensive and prestigious universities and detailed knowledge of these processes that would otherwise be available only through tedious and expensive experiments. There is no magic involved, only good chemistry, and I show how underground chemists manufacture illegal drugs and get away with it.
Skilled and successful underground chemists have usually taken a college level Organic Chemistry course, with lab, for at least one semester. In this lab, they get practice in distillation, extraction, and other skills involved in making methamphetamine. At the very least, they will go to a college bookstore and purchase the lab manual for the Organic Chemistry class. That book goes into some detail on how to distill, reflux, etc.
While this book is not meant to encourage anyone to break the law, it does point out the ultimate futility of government prohibition of "controlled substances" by showing just how easily these substances can be manufactured.
Underground drug manufacturers sometimes enjoy chipping into their own product. If there is one product which underground chemists can make, and also enjoy themselves, it is methamphetamine, the fuel that powered the Third Reich. They need have no fear of messing up their batches while under the influence of methamphetamine, unlike chemical garbage such as PCP.
Legal methamphetamine is sold under such trade names as Desoxyn, Methedrine, etc. It is closely related both in structure and effects to regular amphetamine, called benzedrine and dexedrine.