dir 87Sep06 3:06 am from THE MAGI DESIGNER DRUGS BASIC SERIES I : MDA XTC's older sister XTC or methylenedioxy-methamphetamine gained noteriety last year as a designer drug included in a ban against designer drugs in general. It was lumped together with some very dangerous heroin analogs and the lot of them made Schedule I controlled substances. This was done under quite some protest as it is a very mild hallucinogen similar to mescaline and being used by psychotherapists at the time. It was known as the Love Drug in some circles (just as MDA) as it's effects are very conducive to snuggling and getting close to some- one. The following synthesis is for MDA banned during the original drug scare days of the early 70's. XTC was a designer drug because it was a chemical analog of MDA that was not on the books yet. The basic starting material for MDA is the substance 3,4 methylenedioxy benzaldehyde, also known as piperonal, and available in some herb stores as heliotropin crystals (alongside their perfume oils). The first step is to form the nitropropene. Do this by dissolving approximately 40g of the piperonal with about 16g nitroethane in 150ml of glacial acetic acid with 15g Sodium Acetate. Cool, filter,and purify by recrystallizing from acetic or methanol. The next step is to reduce the nitropropene to the amphetamine (Methylenedioxy-amphetamine) with a Zinc - Mercury amalgam prepared from 200g of Zn and 20g HgCl(2) (Mercury Chloride). Suspend .2 moles of the nitropropene in 2 liters of ethanol with the amalgam, and add with vigorous stirring portions of conc. HCl until the yellow color disappears. Continue stirring for one-half hour, filter, evaporate in vacuum to get freebase oil of MDA. Finally the Hydrochloride salt has to be formed to make it water soluble and snortable, ingestable etc. Dissolve the oil in Dry Ether and slowly bubble dry HCl gas through solution. Crystal precipitate will form. Production of : THE MAGIC THEATRE From Lunatic Labs UnLtd. 415-278-7421 Press a key... The PIRATES' HOLLOW 415-236-2371 ;(