Some more examples of ecstasy pills
An excerpt from "How Ecstasy is Manufactured"
Safrole, piperonal, and isosafrole are
generally the first step for any of the
syntheses outlined in this book for the
preparation of MDA, MDMA, and MDEA. They
are all found to some extent as essentials
oils in many botanical species. This affords
a last resort means of obtaining any or
all of them, forever. That is assuming that
the DEA and their puppets around the world
don't wage war on most of the plant kingdom.
These compounds have pleasant although
potent aromas and as such have been used
in perfumery for countless years. That makes
obtaining them that much easier. The DEA
knows this too and is keeping an increasingly
close watch on their distribution as well
as taking action to make them illegal to
possess in these forms. Each of them individually
are already listed precursors which makes
their possession illegal. Legal manipulation
may extend this listing to include perfumery
products if one were caught with them and
it were alleged that drugs were going to
be produced. Syntheses for these compounds
have existed in the scientific literature
for decades due to their importance in perfumery.
The bulk of this chapter will focus on those
syntheses.
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