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Originally Posted by ExtraKryspi It's illegal no matter what the species, and if you check out the FDA website (or somesuch) you'll find a customs notice from 1986 about "Inka tea" and it being coca leaf. I've ordered it multiple times without problems, though, and since every time has been 1kg or less I really think they'd just seize it. Whatever, so far so good. If not, I was just drinking it as tea. |
I feel that a kilo of leaves, in all honesty, wouldn't be that big of a deal. It seems with the best possible extraction results, at 1.2% alkaloid content, you'd get 12 grams of cocaine. Not likely. I think the lowest report I saw for alkaloid content was .3% ... so you'd extract 3 grams. Obviously it'll fall somewhere in between, but as far as importing cocaine goes...it's not a lot, and it's work to get to the end product.
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Originally Posted by ExtraKryspi One more thing: in most of the guides it has you using sulfuric acid in the coca paste process, but I was using hydrochloric. It didn't seem to me like that should prove problematic, but it could have contributed to the problem, I don't know. Thoughts? |
It shouldn't be a problem either way, some of the stuff I read during research said you could use either hci or sulfuric acid. It's really just to acidify the water to aid in extraction of the plant material.
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Originally Posted by ExtraKryspi Also, if someone has some potassium permanganate just sort of hanging around, could I get some of that? I don't need that much, I'll cover shipping and all that. That's proving difficult to find and I'm about to resort to ebay but before I do that I figured I'd ask. |
Potassium permanganate is used in the production of methacathinone also, I hear someone looking for it could pick it up at Home Depot, it's used to recharge water filtration devices, or something like that. Or maybe the local pet store ...
http://www.pondcrisis.com/a_potassiumpermanganate.html