13.6 Should I post detailed recipes for illegal chemicals?
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This article is from the Chemistry FAQ, by Bruce Hamilton B.Hamilton@irl.cri.nz with numerous contributions by others.
13.6 Should I post detailed recipes for illegal chemicals?
Well, if you do a lot of people will hate you. On the other hand many people
will love you. Of course, most people won't care one way or another.
Or maybe they'll just roll their eyes back, mumble something about
"dissipated/mis-spent youth", and hit the "next" button.
Posting them to sci.chem means you will be attempting to teach grandmother
how to suck eggs, most regulars of sci.chem *know* where to find the
complete instructions, how to perform the synthesis, and have authorised
access to all the equipment and chemicals. The readers of sci.chem are
probably not your target audience, and may be a little annoyed that you had
such a low opinion of their chemistry abilities. If you do not want a
lot of flames, try posting to the groups in section 13.1, they will probably
appreciate your contribution more, but will still flame you if it is wrong.
This is Usenet, do what you want as long as you think you can get away with
it. And don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't. It's a truism on
Usenet that whatever you do, someone's going to be mad at you. For every
anarchistic Free Spirit (TM), there's going to be at least one anal-retentive
busy-body who has nothing better to do that feign outrage at something or
other. Some idiot in Australia even had the nerve to flame me for posting my
Clandestine Chemistry FAQ to sci.chem, and I think drugs are terrible, and
said so. So go figure.
The only caveat to this is that posting mis-information, or information
that you personally do not understand, is likely to result in a lot of
flames. If you attempt to post anonymously to sci.chem, it is likely that
you will encounter far more opposition than if you use your email address.
As with all of Usenet, posters who sign their names to posts will be held
accountable for the content, so posting obviously incorrect or incomplete
syntheses to a group where knowledgeable chemists hang out is more likely to
harm your credibility. Your posts are unlikely to gain you further knowledge
of the synthesis, because if you post incorrect details, readers will be
pointed to the more accurate Clandestine Chemistry FAQ, and also directed to
the groups in section 13.1 to find the latest details.
In the late 1980s, and early 1990s a poster began to post all the detailed
synthesis methods from Pihkal to sci.chem. "Pihkal" is Alexander and Ann
Shulgin's standard text " Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved [2a]", which
has recently been supplemented with "Tihkal" ( Tryptamines I have Known and
Loved ) [2b].
From vague memory, the poster was just listing the recipes, and not entering
into discussions or responding to questions or comments. There was the usual
outrage, but I believe he had to stop because of copyright violation of the
book he was posting - he could not demonstrate to his access provider that
he had approval from the copyright holder :-). Shulgin has now made Part Two
of PiKAL freely available, and copies are littered around the Internet, so
check out the various alt.drugs FAQs for their location.
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