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Originally posted by Zild Yeah I'd love to see anyone except a good formally trained organic chemist making real lsd-25. Will never happen. MDMA is somewhat easier (a lot easier), but still complicated enough that you would need at least two years of university chemistry lecture and lab courses to understand what you are doing and why you are doing it which is key to getting any sort of synthesis with good yields or decent purity. Not to speak of reducing the chances that you will injure yourself or blow something up that hand on experience in a teaching lab will provide. And you would need to know how to use equipment that you won't find or be able to get a hold of outside a chemistry lab. Now meth is a different story.

sorry about my inexperience in the finer points of illegal substance productions.

obviously i made a faulty illustration, but hopefully the point was taken.

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Originally posted by jerZ07002 if you plan on producing ecstasy of lsd. why do people on this board always discount the value of a formal education? formal education is about more than just learning. it's also about making connections that would be difficult, if not impossible, to form without the experience. it's also about external credibility. without a few letters behind your name most people don't take you seriously in a field dominated by formally educated people.

I guess I just don't care what other people think in relation to personal knowledge and wisdom.

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Originally posted by Zild Yeah I'd love to see anyone except a good formally trained organic chemist making real lsd-25. Will never happen. MDMA is somewhat easier (a lot easier), but still complicated enough that you would need at least two years of university chemistry lecture and lab courses to understand what you are doing and why you are doing it which is key to getting any sort of synthesis with good yields or decent purity. Not to speak of reducing the chances that you will injure yourself or blow something up that hand on experience in a teaching lab will provide. And you would need to know how to use equipment that you won't find or be able to get a hold of outside a chemistry lab. Now meth is a different story.

Injure yourself!

LOL!

That's why we only let kids use vinegar in school "labs" today. God forbid they catch the chemistry bug.

The alchemists that made every statement you just uttered possible are rolling in their hives.





This thread is the bees knees.

Last edited by DJ Shibby on Dec-04-2008 at 09:16

And you're Dr. Sasha Shulgin now I suppose?

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Originally posted by DJ Shibby I guess I just don't care what other people think in relation to personal knowledge and wisdom. As we* get older, we* find that people aren't equipped to do their jobs; don't distress, just know there's always solutions.

those same people you don't care about are also the people who will send you a paycheck. unless you own your own business or don't care about money, caring about what other people think is a vital part of life.

Even owning your own business clients like to see credentials and will pay more if you have them.

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Originally posted by Zild Even owning your own business clients like to see credentials and will pay more if you have them.

that's true. i was thinking more along the lines of small businesses, like a convenience store. Even then, financial backers (banks, etc...) would rather see a formal education.

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