Comment by Workaccount2
Comment by Workaccount2 a day ago
You need a decent amount of experience to make psychoactive substances. Chemistry is one of those things that looks like you just follow the steps, but in practice requires a ton of intuition and "feeling it". You can see this if you watch NileRed on youtube, he is a pretty experienced chemist, and even then still flops all the time trying to replicate reactions right out of the book.
Besides, the books Pihkl and Tikhl lay out how to make most psychoactive substances, and those books have been online for free for decades now.[1][2] Maybe there are easier routes and easier to acquire precursor recipes, but I doubt those would be hard to find. The hardest part by far is the chemistry intuition.
[1]https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml [2]https://erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.shtml
> You can see this if you watch NileRed on youtube
Or Extractions & Ire, along with his other channel Explosions & Fire[2], which is a PhD student trying to do chemistry in his shed, literally, using stuff you can get from a well-stocked hardware store or such.
Often the steps seem straight forward but there are details in the papers that are not covered, or the contaminants from using some brand household product rather than a pure source screws it up.
Still, his videos are usually quite entertaining regardless of results.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@explosionsandfire