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And a filthy biproduct of powder cocaine production that is utterly unavailable save for the immediate vicinity of where powder cocaine is produced. Anyway, to the op, don't smoke the white crust, it's just leftover soda, the product floats on top, mix your coke with enough water to make a very thin paste, heat it til it starts to boil then start sprinkling soda and gently swirling the spoon. Add you blow, sprinkle in a very small amount of baking soda, add water dropwise until they begin to mix in the solution. Carefully heat (dont contact the spoon with the actual flame) until it's a paste consistency. I always smoke this on top of a bud I do spoon cleanup with. It's more of a novelty than anything.
Well I'm just back from the National Conference on Injecting Drug Use and I can honestly say it was one of the best yet. The high point for me was the last session in which Jon Derricott presented a film on crack cocaine production and its preparation for injection, this film contained plenty of learning points for drugs workers and injectors alike. Production StageThe film covered small scale (on the spoon) production of cocaine into crack using both the ammonia method and the bicarb method. Both of these appeared to require plenty of patience from the user, but the bicarb method seemed far more quick and simple. With ammonia the process seemed to take ages and the residue that would become crack had to be constantly teased from the edges of the spoon. Of course if you've ever done this yourself or even researched about it in books or online then this is nothing really new to you, the interesting bit was still to come. Preparation StageThere has been a lot of talk on the discussion list of the last few months about the right way to cook crack for injection, and whether or not some of the problems from crack blocking pins is due to wax being used by dealers to bulk out rocks.The crack used for the cooking up was the crack that had been made in the previous part of the film.
The first attempt involved the crack being heated in water with no citric, the crack melted and floated on the water but as soon as the heat was stopped this quickly became a solid again (in just 14 seconds) Jon suggested that this could be the source of the idea that wax is used. The interesting part was that no matter how much citric was added after this stage the crack would not become a solution again.The second attempt was using warm solution that heroin had just been cooked in this of course already contained citric, the crack smeared onto the bottom of the spoon and again wouldn't easily go into a solutionThe last attempt involved cooking the crack using no heat at all and just a small amount of citric, although this did take some time (which Jon admitted could have been shortened by pre-crushing the rock) it did become a clear solution. Once in solution they then added heroin and heated to check if there would be any issues with heating at this stage.
No issues, and the solution stayed stable for days.
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