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by HungryGuy on August 26th, 2004

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How is heroin made?

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  • by Sketchy Mess Jeoffory on December 20th, 2006

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    I'll answer this briefly since it's unlikely you have any opium poppies handy.

    Heroin is produced through a series of chemical processes and refinement of the sap from a poppy plant. First the morphine is isolated from crude opium by being dissolved into water and then reacted with lime followed by ammonia. Then you must go through another 5 step chemical process to turn morphine into heroin, although the resulting heroin isn't the pure grade high-end product that can be available. That requires a much more dangerous reaction.

    Before anyone jumps on my case for supplying this information let me just say that this is all publicly available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Production_and_trafficking and that I have not given enough information to complete the process. I only outlined the basic procedure in case it was an educational question.

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    • It's not a dangerous reaction, you just reflux morphine with acetic anhydride and purify. You can do it in your kitchen... I did.

      Fixacat

      by Fixacat on September 1st, 2011

    • Why did you try to deceive people?

      Fixacat

      by Fixacat on September 3rd, 2011

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