Journal of Apocryphal Chemistry, Feb 2012:A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult to obtain, N-methylamphetamine can be procured at almost any time on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesis of useful amounts of the desired material. Moreover, according to government maintained statistics, N- methylmphetamine is becoming an increasingly attractive starting material for pseudoephedrine, as the availability of N- methylmphetamine has remained high while prices have dropped and purity has increased [2]. We present here a convenient series of transformations using reagents which can be found in most well stocked organic chemistry laboratories to produce psuedoephedrine from N-methylamphetamine.
"Institute for Theoretical Experiments, Department of Chemistry, Miskatonic University."
Am I the only one hearing the anti-DRM arguments echoed here? It's easier to get meth and make it into sudafed than to buy sudafed/it's easier to pirate the movie than buy it.
While flying back to the Bay Area from Vancouver last week the girl in the seat behind me began having some kind of allergy attack. Dude-guy in the seat next to me volunteered pink pills from a small container (I assumed it to be pseudoephedrine). This earned him free wine for the rest of the flight.
I can only imagine how stoned he must have been by the end of the flight.
More likely generic Benadryl (diphenhydramine).
"Or a big fat placebo, it's all the same crap."
I definitely did a double take on this...it took me a good two minutes to get the joke (or that it even was a joke). Pretty funny, in spite of my slow uptake.
Science imitates comment threads?
For people joining our discussion, already in progress:
In 2005, fgmr said, "I should go look for a recipe for making sudafed from meth . . . "
And earlier this year, Dwyer said (jokingly?), "I've taken to buying meth on street corners, then taking it home and cooking it back down into effective cold medicine."
Yeah but not everybody has it in them to take a one-liner gag like that and overthink it to such a degree!
Actually, the joke's on me. I didn't RTFA and didn't even realize this was a joke before posting that comment. Bravo to guys who wrote this.
I saw "Journal of Apocryphal Chemistry" and drew the correct conclusion. ;D
The names of the authors clued me in...eventually.
How about the authors' university? That's on the summary jwz made.
Nope, didn't catch it there...I said I was slow. Somehow I was translating that as some variant of "Apothecary".
Jokingly? Effective cold medicine is not something to joke about. Unless we're talking about that phenylephrine crap. That shit's a joke.