There are several methods for makin

There are several methods for making meth. None are safe, some are easier than others and some are impossible to do because of the necessary reagents. Also, doing this in your home is going to amplify the danger.

I do not advise making meth, I would say that you should never do it. If you were to make the attempt, understand that there are serious consequences for getting caught. I can give information that will help to prevent your death from fire or explosion, but I in no way endorse what you would do. In fact, I dont think you should do this at all. These processes are illegal and can get you and anyone who lives with you arrested. Anyone who is involved in any way would be arrested. This is serious shit. The risk is entirely too high and no one does this for long before getting caught. I am detailing the methods as a way to convince you that it is too much of a hassle and too high of a risk to do yourself.

There are several methods to make meth, we will only consider the two that are possible for a random guy. These methods that I will discuss are:

The HI/P reduction of psuedoephedrine
The Birch Reduction of psuedoephedrine

We will not consider the leukart wallach reaction of phenylacetone with methylamine because it is unlikely that you will be able to get the reagents and equipment needed for that. We will not consider converting amphetamine to methamphetamine because if you had amphetamine, why waste your time right?

Psuedoephedrine
So with both of our methods, we would need psuedoephedrine. Seems simple right? Its not. There is an easy (ok, it's not exactly easy) method of synthesizing psuedoephedrine from unlikely ingredients that can be found in the grocery store. I am not comfortable discussing that method online though. The next best method for getting it is sending in the smurfs.

You will need to get everyone you know to go buy a box of generic cough medicine. They can only buy one box at a time and you will need a lot of these. I wouldnt do a reaction with less than 70 boxes, the risk is too high. Remember that each person who buys a box of pills is another witness against you in court.

Gassing*
So once you have your pills you would need to crush them up and mix them with water and add lye to the water and steam distill the mixture. You would then need to gas out the end result from distillation. To do this you need to get a hose, a container and an air pump to pump muriatic acid vapor into the psuedoephedrine freebase you have after distilling. You will need small balls of aluminum foil in the container which you will have the pump attached to and a hose coming out of. Add muriatic acid to the container and start the pump. The acid will react with the foil and create a vapor that you will bubble through your freebase. The freebase will become a water soluable salt and drop out of the solution. This is your psuedoephedrine. Gassing is very easy to detect from far away. It is a sure way of getting unwanted attention. The smell will be around for a while and it will be noticed by anyone close by.

You will want to clean it and recrystalize it as much as possible. To do this, filter the liquid off of your psuedo with a coffee filter and a funnel. Lightly rinse the solid substance with acetone. Once it is dry place it in a glass dish and add just enough boiling water to disolve the psuedo. Run this through a new coffee filter and let the water evaporate off slowly. This will give clean psuedoephedrine for using in either the HI/P or Birch reductions.

Psuedo the old way:
An alternate method can be used that wont use any special equipment or gassing. It is the way it was normally done twenty years ago before they added a bunch of fillers to the pills to make this method difficult.

Crush all the pills and put them in a bucket. Add enough denatured alcohol or ethanol or methanol or toluene to dissolve the powder. Mix it up so that all of the powder is dissolved or emulsified. At this point you would put the bucket into a freezer for a while. I would guess that five to ten hours in the freezer will be enough.

Once the solids have settled you would need to syphon the liquid off of the solids layer. This would be run through a filter to ensure that none of the solids are left. The common method of dealing with this flammable substance is to put it in the microwave for a while until all the solvent evaporates off. I do not recomend this. Those vapors are extremely flammable and will explode if there is a spark in the area. To avoid an explosion, put your liquid in a corningware dish and light it on fire. After a few seconds (no more than thirty) put the lid on the dish to put the fire out. After the fire is out, swirl the liquid around to get anything off the sides of the dish and to cool it down. Once it is cooled down repeat this process. Be careful not to burn the powder that will precipitate out of the liquid. Once it is mostly burned off you should allow the last of the alcohol to evaporate on its own.

Once this is completed you would want to recrystalize the psuedoephedrine. After that it is ready to use in a reaction of your choice.

HI/P Reduction to Methamphetamine
You will need red phosphorus powder, distilled water and elemental iodine. The red phosphorus and water are up to you to procure however you can. Red phosphorus is not easy to come by anymore, and that is the reason this method is pretty much doomed from the start (well, if getting the pills wasn't enough of a problem). The elemental iodine can be made easily.

Elemental Iodine
You will need 7% strong iodine tincture, hydrogen peroxide and muriatic acid. You will need three times the amount of tincture of hydrogen peroxide. In a well ventilated area away from anything with a nose, put the tincture in a bucket and add three times that amount of hydrogen peroxide to it. Then get away from there for a couple hours. This will stink like you wouldnt believe. When you go back, add a volume of muriatic acid that is half that of the volume of tincture. Let the mixture react and use a stick to stir it around. After about a half hour pour the substance through a filter to collect your iodine crystals.

You will need to wash the iodine several times with distilled water to get all e crap off of them. There will be KOH on them which could potentially cause problems for your next reaction. Put your unwashed crystals in a jar and add water to it and seal the jar. Shake it up and then filter it through a coffee filter. Repeat this process several times or until the water comes off clear. Put your elemental iodine in a lightproof container and store it in a dark area. It might be a good idea to leave it in water and filter it off right before you need to use it. The stuff will decompose naturally and after a while you will not have anything useful waiting in your container.

The Reaction
I am giving exact numbers here because almost any numbers will work. You can have a 1:1:1 ratio and it will work. A 2:1:3 ratio works. Almost any ratio of ingredients works for this reaction. The only difference is what is leftover in e finished product.

Add however much pseudo you want to a 2000 mL vacuum flask and then add an equal amount of iodine to that. Swirl it around so it liquifies, add a small amount of distilled water to this before adding the phosphorus. Then add one third of the amount of psuedoephedrine of phosphorus to the flask and seal it.

The setup is important because the reaction will produce deadly vapors. The sidearm should have a rubber tube attached and clamped off. This will be for emergencies where you may need to add something to the reaction. Most likely you won't. The top of the flask needs to have a hose attached to it that will run into a carboy that is attached to another carboy at the bottom spout. These will have water in them so that when pressure comes from the reaction all the vapors are contained and won't escape. We call this a "push-pull" system.

Get a large soup pan that your flask will fit in and put it on a stove. Put the flask inside it and begin to heat it. You will want to cook it at 150 degrees Celsius for roughly multiples of two hours. You will need to constantly check on the reaction and lift it up and swirl it around to get it moving, at first you will see the water levels change in your push-pull so the inside one will have a low level and the outside one will have a high level. When the levels change and it pulls the water back the reaction is done. The cook should keep going for at least two more cycles because not all of the pseudo is going to be reacted the first few times and it will cause your finished product to have a shelf life. Psuedo will turn meth into psuedo.

Once this is done, let the stuff cool down before opening the flask. Then add distilled water to it and pour it through a stack of coffee filters. Add more water and get everything out of the flask. Save the sludge that's left in the filter because you can pull more from it later by boiling it in water and repeating this process. The phosphorus can be reused as well.

The liquid you have is your product, it just needs to be cleaned up a little. First a non polar solvent is added to it and allowed to settle into a thick layer above the liquid. Sodium hydroxide is added to the mix and once it is done reacting, the meth is in a freebase form dissolved in the top layer. This layer needs to be separated and gased like we described earlier. After that recrystalization is the last step.

Birch Reduction of Psuedoephedrine
You will need your psuedo, lithium metal strips, anhydrous ammonia and toluene. This reaction is dangerous because the presence of water or water vapor will cause an explosion. The lithium metal is from batteries that you will need to cut open and remove the inner metal coil. This is lithium metal and it will explode in the open air when exposed to water vapor. For that reason I would not recommend this m