Yes. I did it. Not what you think. I won't get shitfaced on cocaine, but during the Ciudad Perdida hike in the Sierra Nevada of Colombia, we had the opportunity to visit a cocaine factory. Now people might think: "this dude is financing the cocaine industry, can you believe this guy?!". Chill out and read on. You'll understand.
So, on our second day, we had a stop at some random village with maybe 5 inhabitants, so basically one family. After chatting with one of them about growing cocaine plants, and how the circumstances changed over the last 10 years, he offered to show us around and if we liked he'd show us the process of making cocaine. I joined (of course :) ).
He brought us to a place deep in the jungle, and there it was, a small cocaince factory. And he explained us in detail how the process works, what ingredients are used and so on and so forth. So here it is:
For one kilo of cocaine, you need 6000 cocaine plants, and rip the leaves off. 5 persons working 5 days in a row get like 1000 k of cocaine leaves from them. Then you add the first two chemicals, salt and calcium. You need like 200 k salt and 100 k calcium and add this stuff to the shredded leaves (you better shred them with a big shredder rather than cutting it bit by bit :) ). The mixture of salt, calcium and leaves is being mixed for 30 minutes and then 5 people "dance" on it for like 5 hours or so.
Then you take that mishmash and add 700 l of gasoline. The gasoline dissolves the cocaine in the coca leaves. This broth is being stirred for a couple of hours.
1) the coca leaves 2) the salt the calcium and 3) mixed together with the gasoline in a yummy bucket!
Well, then it's time to get the active substance out of the gasoline. Just pooring in water does the job. I think it is like 400 l of water. But the calcium and the salt dissolves in the water as well. But at least, this mixture forms two phases, such that the waterish solution can be sucked off and the shredded leaves and the gasoline are out of the game.
Now, it's time for more yummy ingredients. Sulfic acid and potassium permanganate. Add the acid and a few hundred gramms of permanganate, stir it, and watch carefully if you see black crystals. When you see them, you have put in sufficient permanganate. See the crystals?!
You end up with a disgusting brewage which ought to be filtered, at least twice, just with a piece of cottoon. Your old t-shirt will do.
To the filtrate is still highly acid and therefore the second last step is to add sodium in order to neutralize the acid. Filter it again and you have produced the so called "la pasta".
Et voilá, la pasta. This stuff is being traded from the producer to some "negociante", who sells it to some other place in panama or mexico. There, the last step is taken. Aceton will dissolve all the residua and leave pure cocaine.
The producer sells one kilo of la pasta for 4000 US dollar, whereas the chemicals already cost like 2000 US dollar.
Devided by 5 persons, thats onla 400 US.
So he is not really gaining much. But we paid him like 10 bugs each, so he makes 100 US per day. So by giving these "instructions" we actually keep him from producing drugs while providing him with more cash than he can spend in the jungle :)
To sum up: The process is so disgusting that I really encourage everyone to not do cocaine.
