This is for information purposes for anyone who is interested in how LSD can be synthisised.
Making LSD from Ergot isn’t difficult, just a bit involved, (for someone not used to growing cultures). You’re just growing something, then washing it with alcohols/acids/bases, just as you would if you were extracting anything from i.e. plant material.
Looking for ergot on wild grasses near where you live is the best start. it is everywhere. rye most commonly. Below i paste the method for making a sterile ergot preperation and the procedure for making LSD. There are equipment needs, as every stage needs to be sterile, like when you infect matter with spores for mushroom growing, but if you really want some, and it seems theres a gap to fill in the market, you may find it worth it:
The full synthesis of the lysergic acid is too difficult. Lysergic
acid amides can be extracted from the seeds of morning glory or
hawaiian baby wood rose, but it is not practical, because the huge
amount of seeds needed to get enough lysergic acid amides for
the LSD synthesis. To my opinion the only feasible possibility is
to cultivate ergot.
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This process requires laboratory equipment, including an autoclave and a vacume pump. These are in most labs, and you could make friends with a college student. As far as they’re concerned you could be growing a culture of any fungus or bacteriea, they don’t have to know its not legal. You only need to steralise a bit of eqipment and a culture medium. And alternatives to vacumes for drying out products can be found) All other equipmant can be ‘borrowed’ from a school/college, or found on the internet. but as long as you steralise it, you can get inventive and use glass containers and tubes from other sources.
I think making your own drugs is a good enough reason to take a weekend lab assistant job or a course at college that gets you access to such equipment.
Alternatively, you can simply do the first part only, and don’t go for the large scale production part. but you’ll be working with much smaller quantities, and you’ll need to be more careful with you chemistry, (altering ph etc,) or your yeild will be too low)
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If no source of pure Claviceps purpurea (ergot) fungus can be found, it may be necessary to make a field trip to obtain the ergot growths from rye or other cereal grasses. Rye grass is by far the best choice. The ergot will appear as a blackish growth on the tops of the rye where the seeds are and are referred to as “heads of ergot.” From these heads of ergot sprout the Claviceps purpurea fungi. They have long steams with bulbous heads when seen under a strong glass or microscope. It is these that must be removed from the ergot, free from contamination, and used to inoculate the culture media. The need for absolute sterility cannot be overstressed. Consult any elementary text on bacteriology for the correct equipment and procedures.
Avoid prolonged contact with ergot compounds, as they are poisonous and
can be fatal.
Make up a culture medium by combining the following ingredients in about
500 milliliters of distilled water in a 2 liter, small-neck flask:
Sucrose …………………………………… 100 grams
Chick pea meal ……………………………… 50 grams
Calcium nitrate ………………………………. 1 gram
Monopotassium phosphate ……………………. 0.25 grams
Magnesium sulphate ………………………… 0.25 grams
Potassium chloride ……………………….. 0.125 grams
Ferrous sulphate heptahydrate ………………. 8.34 milligrams
Zinc sulphate heptahydrate …………………. 3.44 milligrams
(all readily available chemicals)
Add water to make up one liter, adjust pH 4 with ammonia solution and
citric acid. Sterile by autoclaving.
Inoculate the sterilized medium with Claviceps purpurea under sterile
conditions, stopper with sterilized cotton and incubate for two weeks
periodically testing and maintaining pH 4. After two weeks a surface
culture will be seen on the medium. Large-scale production of the
fungus can now begin.
Obtain several ordinary 1 gallon jugs. Place a two-hole stopper in
the necks of the jugs. Fit a short (6 inch) glass tube in one hole,
leaving 2 inches above the stopper. Fit a short rubber tube to this.
Fill a small (500 milliliter) Erlenmeyer flask with a dilute solution
of sodium hypochlorite, and extend a glass tube from the rubber tube
so the end is immersed in the hypochlorite. Fit a long, glass tube in
the other stopper hole. It must reach near the bottom of the jug and
have about two inches showing above the stopper. Attach a rubber tube
to the glass tube as short or as long as desired, and fit a short glass
tube to the end of the rubber tube. Fill a large, glass tube (1 inch x
6 inches) with sterile cotton and fit 1-hole stoppers in the ends.
Fit the small, glass tube in end of the rubber tube into 1 stopper of
the large tube. Fit another small glass tube in the other stopper.
A rubber tube is connected to this and attached to a small air pump
obtained from a tropical fish supply store.You now have a set-up for
pumping air from the pump, through the cotton filter, down the long
glass tube in the jug, through the solution to the air space in the top
of the jug, through the short glass tube, down to the bottom of the
Erlenmeyer flask and up through the sodium hypochlorite solution into
the atmosphere. With this aeration equipment you can assure a supply
of clean air to the Claviceps purpurea fungus while maintaining a
sterile atmosphere inside the solution.
Dismantle the aerators. Place all the glass tubes, rubber tubes,
stoppers and cotton in a paper bag, seal tight with wire staples
and sterilize in an autoclave.
Fill the 1-gallon jugs 2/3 to 3/4 full with the culture medium and
autoclave.
While these things are being sterilized, homogenize in a blender the
culture already obtained and use it to inoculate the media in the
gallon jugs. The blender must be sterile. Everything must be sterile.
Assemble the aerators. Start the pumps. A slow bubbling in each jug
will provide enough oxygen to the cultures. A single pump can, of
course, be connected to several filters.
Let everything sit a room temperature (25 C) in a fairly dark place
(never expose ergot alkaloids to bright light – they decompose) for
a period of ten days.
After ten days adjust the culture to 1% ethanol using 95% ethanol
under sterile conditions. Maintain growth for another two weeks.
After total of 24 days growth period the culture should be considered
mature. Make the culture acidic with tartaric acid and homogenize in
a blender for one hour.
Adjust to pH 9 with ammonium hydroxide and extract with benzene or
chloroform/iso-butanol mixture.
Extract again with alcoholic tartaric acid and evaporate in a vacuum
to dryness. The dry material in the salt (i.e. the tartaric acid salt, the tartrate) of the ergot alkaloids, and is stored in this form because the free basic material is too unstable and decomposes readily in the presence of light, heat, moisture and air.
To recover the free base for extraction of the amide of synthesis to
LSD, make the tartrate basic with ammonia to pH 9, extract with chloroform and evaporate in vacuo.
So there it is. There are groups of people i.e. on myspace and other internet sites who make it this way, and maybe you could get involved with them instead. going to them simply asking for LSD isn’t a good entry. Some knowlege of the process or interest in blotter art etc. is a good way to network.
good luck.
