How do you make cocaine?

I doubt you'll find the answer on a mainstream Q & A site like answerbag. The people who know how to extract cocaine from coca leaves probably aren't hanging around here, just waiting to show the curious among us how to whip up an eight-ball. I've read a few descriptions of dope cooks and "altruistic" was never among the words used, lol.

You might start by taking a class in organic chemistry or at least reading a basic chemistry book, so that if you do find a halfway decent extraction technique, you won't be scratching your head, wondering how to measure pH, or where you can procure the reagents.

I'm not sure how you'd acquire the leaves, either. I mean, it's not like they're bagged up and sitting on a shelf in the garden department at Home Depot.

But let's say you managed to find some, somewhere. Maybe inside a fantasy. Five kilograms of leaves from coca plants - that's 11 pounds, US - makes less than an ounce of coke (23 grams or so). Since you've never done this before, your yields would probably be less. And it takes a few days for the whole process, start to finish. I read something about covering the leaves with kerosene and that made me nervous (KA BOOM!), so I stopped reading.

I found this from searching the web. Had to dig pretty deep, but the info is there. Reliability? You got me. I wouldn't know a funky recipe from a good one and don't plan to learn. It looks too complicated.

I wouldn't bet the farm on anything that begins with, "The Quick and Easy Way to Make Cocaine", though.

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Edit - 12/20/06: To whoever downrated: Do you think I'm naive enough to write a synthesis for cocaine on Answerbag? Just what I'm hoping for - to get placed on the DEA's watch list. In case you're unaware, it's a felony to make cocaine in the USA. It's also a crime to tell people how to do it.

Basically, the main reason I wrote this answer is because the other one was so unbelievably stupid, it was plain insulting to let it stand as the only answer.

But let's forget all that. Exactly how responsible would it be for me to write up an extraction technique and synthesis without knowing who's reading it? Chemicals are nothing to play around with, and I don't have the time to find an MSDS for everything. If you want to make cocaine, my best advice is to look around on the web. Try Erowid.com for a start. You should be aware of the following: all drug websites are full of people whose main goal in life is to see people who use and make illegal drugs get popped, big-time. Of course, you won't be able to tell who those people are.

You will read stuff that sounds good, but won't make crap, because the ratios of the precursors are off by a minute amount. People will brag about how easy it is to make this or that, but they will omit a step here or an ingredient there and you'll be wondering just what went wrong when you end up with nothing. Or some doofus will light a cigarette while you're messing around with acetone, MEK, or VM&P Naphtha and you won't have time to wonder about why you ignored safety warnings. You'll be too busy trying to save yourself from the fire and later from the cops.

This stuff is hard enough, I'm sure, to make in a clean, well-equiped lab with pristine precursors and established procedures. When you try it, not being knowledgable, as evidenced by your looking on a site like Answerbag for an answer, you won't get squat.

Thanks Stableboy! Come on over and let's do a few lines. I got a fresh batch coming out of the oven.

ptrask, one day we're going to have one hell of a party. You bring the camera and the food, I'll make sure we can stay awake for a few days.

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100 k of coca leaves
chope up leaves

add:
100 kilos crushed coca leaves
16 kilos sea salt
8 kilos limestone
sprinkle cement on top
Mix by stomping together for 1 hour.

put black mixture in a large drum
add 20 liters of gasoline

allow mixture to sit for four hours
drain the drum into a bucket
discard the pulpy leaves

add 8 litres of water
add 8 teaspoons of sulpheric acid

scrub mixture with a plunger for 2 minutes
decant liquid from the gasoline

add sodium permanganate to remove impurities
add caustic soda
then filter with a dirty rag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclSEhNdUK8&feature=fvst

book a flight to peru or columbia

hitch a ride into the amazon jungle

and ask the guys with the ak47's

im sure they will be happy to help you out with this info

or take you as a hostage

please do NOT try this kids!!!!!!!!! ha ha

Cocaine has been made into forms over the last 5,000 years
3000 B.C.E. Coca: A Godly Plant

The Coca plant, which is the plant that cocaine is derived from is chewed throughout South America and is considered by South America's inhabitants to be a gift from God.

1400s: Inca Coca Expansion

The Inca, an advanced medieval Peruvian empire expands Coca production through the operation of countless Coca plantations. It are these plantations which will later form the beginning of the production of the modern day Coca crop that is the root of pure cocaine.

1505: The Europeans Get Hooked To Coca

Amerigo Vespucci brings back the coca plant to Europe.

Early 1500s: The Spanish Take Over Coca Production

Those who are privileged to be in possession of the coveted Spanish Land Grants take possesion of the Incan Coca plantations. Along with this action the tax laws of Spain are changed to let land owners pay their taxes in coca leaves.

1539: The Church Takes a Piece of the Action

The Bishop of Cuzco takes 1/10 of the value of each coca crop.

By the middle of the 16th Century coca production in Peru rapidly expands, overly producing the coca leaf, causing the price of the coca plant to drop.

1575: Coca Trade Attracts Europeans

82% of European in Peru involve themselves in the Coca trade, making it the largest employer of European labor in South America.

1662: Coca Poetry

"The Legend of Coca" by Abraham Cowley becomes the first instance that coca is mentioned in English literature.

1708: Botany meets the Coca Plant

German botanist Herman Boerhaave mentions the coca plant in his paper "Institutions Medicae."

1835: Coca and Art

Sir William Hooker accurately portrays the coca plant in an artists rendering for the "Companion to the Botanical Magazine."

1850: Coca's Medicinal Side

During surgical procedures of throat doctors use tincture made from coca leaves.

1855: Cocaine is Born

The first extraction of cocaine from coca leaves takes place.

1862: Cocaine Production Increase Little by Little

A ¼ pound of cocaine is extracted from the coca plant by Merck.

1869: The Coca come to New York

Kew Gardens receives commercial variety coca seeds.

1870: Want some Cocaine with Your Wine?

Vin Mariani or otherwise known as Coca Wine goes on sale throughout France. It contains 6 mg of cocaine for every ounce of wine. The exported version of the wine contains 7.2 mg of cocaine due to the American competition containing a higher quantity.

1870s: Coca Extract

A liquid coca extract of coca is made.

1876 to 1885: Sporting With Coca

English Race Walkers are known to chew coca leaves in order to increase their physical out put.

1883: More Cocaine

¾ of a pound of cocaine is extracted from coca leaves by Merck.

1884: The Cocaine Take Over

The popularization of cocaine as an anesthetic during surgical procedures on eyes takes place. "On Coca" is published by Sigmund Freud. In it he makes the recommendation to use cocaine in the treatment of many conditions. 3,179 pounds of cocaine are extracted by Merck.

1886: Even More Cocaine

158,352 pounds of cocaine is extracted by Merck
John Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola, which has syrup laced with cocaine and caffeine.

Late 1880s: Cocaine Production Gets into Full Swing

Refined cocaine is produced.

1901: Cola Without Coca

Cocaine is removed from Coca-Cola's mix.

1905: Cocaine for the Nose

It becomes popular to snort cocaine.

1910: Cocaine Creates Nasal Damage

the first time there are recorded cases of nasal problems stemming from cocaine snorting written in medical journals and seen many hospitals.

1912: Cocaine as a Death Drug

5,000 fatalities were recorded by the U.S. Government as the result of cocaine use.

1914: Bye Bye Cocaine

The US makes cocaine illegal.

Early 1930s: Cocaine Production Keeps Going

The leading cocaine producers are during this time are Japan, US, Germany, UK, and France.

1976: A New Form of Cocaine Arises

The first development of freebase cocaine occurs. It soon grows in popularity, pushed both by dealers and Hollywood.

1981: Cocaine Becomes a Money Maker

$55,000 is the going rate for 1 kg of cocaine.

1984: Cocaine Gets Cheaper

$25,000 becomes the going rate for 1 kg of cocaine.

1980s: Freebasing Cocaine

source: http://www.myaddiction.com/categories/cocaine_timeline.html

I'd say leave it to the masters in South America. They have already shown us that they truly know what they are doing... sniff, sniff...

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You extract the liquid by soaking the dried leaves in a solution (not telling you what) and then you take that liquid and refine it (not telling you how), add chemicals to it (again, not telling you what) then you dry it again, and turn it into a powder.

before it gets to you in suburbia, it is processed and "Stepped on" at least 20 or 30 more times by at least 5 people or groups of people, and is cut with any number of things from baby laxative to vitamin B.

If you need to ask, you're not going to be able to do it. And that's probably a good thing.