DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract

Step 2: Obtain the necessary materials

Cat armies don't come free.* It's time to go shopping. Here's our list:

-1 pound of catnip, available online for bargain basement prices. I paid $3.40/lb from the San Francisco Herb Co.
-1 turkey baster (this will be an improvised pipet)
-1 eye dropper, available from the drugstore
-1 nalgene bottle that you are willing to sacrifice to the cause. It will never be the same. A glass mason jar also works, and it would be more robust.
- toluene (available from the hardware store in the paint thinner section)
- a large pot with a glass lid. It's important that the tip/handle of the lid comes to a sharp point in the center, like this one.
- vegetable steamer
- salt
- baking soda
- coffee filters
- a funnel
- shot glasses and a glass cup
- plenty of ice (5 lbs or so)

• Note: pure nepetalactone will not enable you to create a cat army.

Comments

[thepelton]

This isn't explosive isit?

[avlis13]

 Out of curiosity, using a similar method, could you use a still?

[montdor1]

Many herbs and plants can be concentrated in similar ways, creating near-drug like purity and percentages of active ingredients. Take poppy seeds. A jar of them. Boil. The eventual sludge? Pretty strong opiate. Do this with saffron, or sassafras, either. And you get a unique, strong amphetamine, sold everywhere everyday. Because all of this is about information, people must get good info. Hence, instructables!

[austin]

saffron like the spice ? or the saffron crocus? cause the spice is ridiculously expensive.

[montdor1]

I have to add a medicine, so forgive me. But sudafed? I do not like it. But if I had bad allergies, I probably would put up with it. Why phenephrine, a more dangerous (induces more heart attacks), crude drug as substitute? How can a whole country of pseudoephedrine users, obviously highly effective, let our state (NY) do this? Where are the drug companies. Changing formulations must have cost quite a bit. It all makes no difference. Ah, Ephedra. Asthmatics take ephedrine in Bronkaid (tm) and other, similar OTC medicine daily. Some feel ephedrine, qualitatively, like amphetamine (it is the mirror image of that molecule (l-amphetamine or d-amphetamine equals ephedrine, I guess. I'm not a chemist.) Cyclizine and meclyzine. Both are potent anti-pychotic meds and if used for a long time can cause facial tics. This drug is used like diphendramine, diphendrimate and prescription scopalamine -- for quesiness (sp?). (Bonine. Dramamine. Read the ingredients. Buy or borrow a PDR (Physician's Desk Reference) to give ballpark dosing info. How many people can make ginormous quantities of amphetamine using pseudophed? Exactly zero, without getting caught. And I"m told the reaction does not work in small, personal use batches (maybe, maybe not). A hint: sodium hydroiodide is a common chemical one can get from any chemical supply house. Government frowns upon this chemical. (Even though time-honored, imp't things can be taught to H.S. chem students with it.) 'nuff said -- pass the mexican vanilla please.