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An interesting (probably illegal) find

Tdep - 3-3-2015 at 01:47

So a few people were asking on the skype chat about some things that I found at my grandma's, and perhaps a few others might find this interesting.
My grandma ran a vet practice at her place many years ago and kept many things on selves in sheds since then. She's moving out, so a lot is being uncovered (I've scored some great things so far!). This box however, is an interesting one, and one who's contents I'll probably have to destroy, as there's no way I'm keeping most of these in the lab or around my home, now way I'm making arresting me that easy.

Anyway, you never know what might turn up, chemistry is great because you can discover, collect and create!

The third photo is a small a,punt of what perhaps is a paste, labelled Morphine.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by Tdep]

Darkstar - 3-3-2015 at 02:07

LOL! Cocaine HCl, ephedrine, morphine, opium, codeine...

If you value your freedom, you should probably get rid of that stuff ASAP.

j_sum1 - 3-3-2015 at 02:15

What a cool find. Take some photos for posterity. Call the cops and explain what you have found and get them to collect and dispose of it properly.
There is nothing there that you actually need. And even if you were a druggie, there is nothing that you would actually want to trust.

phlogiston - 3-3-2015 at 02:25

You may also want to watch out for radioactive sources. Radium needles and such.

Tdep - 3-3-2015 at 02:43

I might consider keeping the containers, but I'll just destroy the contents myself, somehow, probably just burn them somewhere and bury the ashes. Any better suggestions? Can take it into the police I guess, but they might worry I have more and such. Don't know.

Oh, except the fluorscein. I'm keeping that!

If I could get the bloody old Geiger counter working, radium would be easier to find... But yes, good suggestion, will look out for that phlogiston!

j_sum1 - 3-3-2015 at 02:52

The advantage of calling the Police is that from then on they know you are honest and up-front. That is a good thing.
The other advantage is that they take care of disposal tecnicalities. Maybe not an issue with this haul but more significant if you had mercury compounds for example.

Tdep - 3-3-2015 at 02:57

Possibly. Theres a police station nearby, should I just take it in? If I go in beforehand and ask, they'd probably want to come to my house yeah?

Reminds me of that time last year someone around here took a WWII hand grenade into a police station for disposal and the police station shut down the whole street, the look on the officiers face must have been priceless haha. Turns out it was dead but still, can't blame them that much for reacting like that.

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j_sum1 - 3-3-2015 at 03:23

Again, let them take the trouble to come and collect it. It makes it seem like you don't even want to touch it. You can give a time when you will be home. Make an appointment. Make them jump to your tune. Make some coffee. Make a relationship with the local force. Makes them less likely to come a-calling when your glassware order comes in -- unless they want more coffee.

Jylliana - 3-3-2015 at 03:38

Indeed an amazing (but illegal) find.
I agree with going to the police with the honest story and ask them what you have to do with this stuff to get rid of it properly(don't take it with you the first time!).
If you're honest and friendly, they will probably be open to what you found and not arrest you or anything.
I personally would have the guts to ask if I could keep the containers. If you don't ask the answer will always be 'no'

Zombie - 3-3-2015 at 04:46

Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1

Again, let them take the trouble to come and collect it. It makes it seem like you don't even want to touch it. You can give a time when you will be home. Make an appointment. Make them jump to your tune. Make some coffee. Make a relationship with the local force. Makes them less likely to come a-calling when your glassware order comes in -- unless they want more coffee.

LSum...

You are an incredibly bright fella. I look forward to reading your posts every day.

But THIS?

You're gonna get the cops high, and there gonna come around "jonesin'" for more.

In MY world, the only time you ever call the cops is NEVER!!!!

Hello Sir! May we come inside for a moment?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Do you mind answering a few quick questions sir/ YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

What's that behind your back sir?
NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Just sayin'

That is a super cool find Jy. Sadly tho, you do have to destroy the contents.
I find it a sad state of affairs when you have to destroy a piece of history, that was only ever intended to be of help. My mother was also a Vet, and dog breeder.
When she passed the State police, and a Rep. from the DEA showed up to sort thru her "stores", and haul off whatever thy deemed "Controlled / Dangerous.
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of supplies... gone. My sister called them.

Nice world we made for ourselves...

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by Zombie]

j_sum1 - 3-3-2015 at 04:57

@ zombie
There may be some regional and cultural issues at play here. In my experience in my part of the world the cops have been nothing but professional and courteous and open to reasonable conversation. It wasn't too many months ago that I and my neighbours had occasion to dial emergency regarding a fracas that was happening in the street outside my place. Within minutes we had six sets of flashing lights outside our place and ten guys in uniform. We also had two guys in cuffs and nothing moved until they got to the bottom of things. When they did it was found that it was mostly a combination of intoxication and misunderstanding. They had interviewed a bunch of people and took appropriate action without prosecuting.
Tdep lives in the same country as me. I know there are exceptions and errors, but by and large I don't think there is much reason to be cagey with the cops. When they err it tends to be on the side of doing nothing rather than excessive prosecution.

Thanks for the compliment btw.

Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 05:05

Your story is one the police will certainly understand in any part of the world, and will not give you any problems. It's like similar stories where a parent dies and the children find WWI/II ordinance in the house. Is homeland security going to arrest them for it? No.

I would take it to them, though.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by Loptr]

Zombie - 3-3-2015 at 05:08

Any time sir!

Credit where credit is due!!!

In New York City, or the DEEP south... cops are similar to pit bulls. No one wants them packing up on their front porch.
I am dramatizing (of course) but the point remains. If drunks are gonna kill each other in the street, the broom guy will take care of it in the morning No need for 1/2 dozen guys with guns playing with drunk fellas.

We tend to take care of our own issues, and leave the cops to play w/ the politicians.

Dr.Bob - 3-3-2015 at 06:18

The containers are valuable, people buy and sell them on Ebay often, empty. The boxes that they came in would also be valuable. I would make every effort to open them carefully and dispose of the contents by flushing them down the drain, or dump them into a container, mix with kitty litter or other trash and put in the garbage. People throw out old medicines all of the time. Wear gloves for the work. If you are really worried about the best way to dispose, ask a local pharmacist, they are licensed to handle drugs, so they will know the current laws, likely better than the police. Many drugs stores even have an old drug disposal collection day occasionally.

Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 06:23

Quote: Originally posted by Dr.Bob

The containers are valuable, people buy and sell them on Ebay often, empty. The boxes that they came in would also be valuable. I would make every effort to open them carefully and dispose of the contents by flushing them down the drain, or dump them into a container, mix with kitty litter or other trash and put in the garbage. People throw out old medicines all of the time. Wear gloves for the work. If you are really worried about the best way to dispose, ask a local pharmacist, they are licensed to handle drugs, so they will know the current laws, likely better than the police. Many drugs stores even have an old drug disposal collection day occasionally.

This is a good point. It's not like they are hazardous materials. No evidence of illegal activities (perceived or otherwise), no problem. Not that this is an illegal activity.

People do collect these sorts of things. My dad being one of them. (He loves old glass bottles)

Molecular Manipulations - 3-3-2015 at 06:25

Here in Dallas cops are mostly assholes, they suspect the person(s) who called them about as much as the person who got reported.
I don't know much about Australian coppers but I would not involve them AT ALL. If you had drugs in you're house for years and may or may not have found all of them chances are they're going to want to search the rest of the house. Even though it's you who called them them just the fact that there where drugs and could be more may be a good enough cause to let them get a search warrant.
What I would do is destroy them, and tell nobody you're a chemist, that'll be easy.
Or you could save them for a rainy day

Aquakidney - 3-3-2015 at 08:05

In the United States, the police do not exist to "serve and protect". They exist to gather evidence that the public prosecutor can use against you. Under no circumstances should you inform the authorities (or anyone else) of your find. If you do, you will almost certainly be clapped in irons while the cops tear your place apart looking for anything else interesting. And if they can't find anything, they'll charge you with something anyway for wasting their time, in addition to possession of controlled substances. The charges may eventually be thrown out, but not before you've spent >= $5k in legal fees.

Don't count on public authorities being reasonable and just. And it's not just in certain so-called "backward" parts of the country. I live in an upper-middle-class, mostly-white area and worse than this happens weekly.

And as Philip K. Dick said, once you come to the attention of the authorities, they never quite forget you...

Morkva - 3-3-2015 at 08:15

Do not destroy or alter the historical contents because a bunch of morons think you're going to shove them up your nose.

If discovered, that they haven't been tampered with since the paper started yellowing should be a formidable defense.

Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 08:45

Quote: Originally posted by Morkva

Do not destroy or alter the historical contents because a bunch of morons think you're going to shove them up your nose.

If discovered, that they haven't been tampered with since the paper started yellowing should be a formidable defense.

Unfortunately, there is no grandfather defense for controlled substances. That won't work if you are found out.

One way to look at it is a lot of people have drugs in their homes. How many of them are caught? Is keeping these worth your freedom?

It's up to you. I doubt they would ever cause you trouble, to be honest. You could also possibly donate them to a museum.

Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 08:47

My previous post hit on something.

I think you should donate it to a museum.

You will not get into trouble for this.

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Actually, this might not work. They would empty them most likely to put them on display, so that people wouldn't break-in to get them...

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I actually have seen something like this happen before, where "antique" drugs are found. I was at an estate sale were an old doctors bag was found that contained what seemed to be methamphetamine in liquid within sealed ampoules. The police were alerted and they were taken away. They were VERY old.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by Loptr]

radiance88 - 3-3-2015 at 11:39

Somehow... why does this make me fear for you?

I suggest you simply stay out sight of the "law" rather than try to befriend it..

I agree with Aquakidney, even though certainly the view is a bit extreme. Given recent developments in the states such as the civil forfeiture law (check out John Olliver's YouTube skit on it), I would not dare do something like this.

Do what you want, but don't put yourself in the police's scope.

I would not dare let that bull rage around in your china shop.

aga - 3-3-2015 at 13:24

Back in the Real World, just keep it all together as it is, and decide what you want to do with it later.

Don't tell anyone about it, i mean anyone ... DOH ! Too late.

It is what it is, yet your local Laws may make it something else.

Safest bet is to take it to the local station and tell them whole story.

Ask to keep the Containers, as only the Drugs themselves are illegal.

Be prepared for them to simply take them from you, and sell them on ebay themselves.

Edit:

Take photos on top of today's newspaper (showing the date) before you take 'em in.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by aga]

Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 13:35

After reading through this again, it would be completely within your rights to just dispose of the contents, wash out the containers, and keep the containers for yourself.

After all, what are they going to do? Arrest you for possession of antique containers that were used to contain a medicine that was legal at one point in our history, but is only considered illegal in this day and age?

Dispose of the contents as you see fit, and keep the containers. Simple enough.

Growing up here in the USA, I have heard of stories when I was a teenager of parents flushing drugs down the toilet that were discovered in their teenagers possession. This is along the same lines.

Best of Luck!

aga - 3-3-2015 at 13:38

A swab of any of the containers would Beep very loudly in any modern drug detection device.

How do you 'rinse' cardboard ?

Edit:

A drugs dog would also have a very waggy tail.

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Throwing in the drugs find would possibly serve Tdep well if ever his/her Lab were ever raided.

"Isn't this one who brought in that weird collection of Everything ?"

Cops aren't that selective though, so perhaps just binning the contents (next door's bin) and ebaying the containers would be the better disposal plan.

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Loptr - 3-3-2015 at 13:47

Quote: Originally posted by aga

A swab of any of the containers would Beep very loudly in any modern drug detection device.

How do you 'rinse' cardboard ?

Edit:

A drugs dog would also have a very waggy tail.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by aga]

Throwing in the drugs find would possibly serve Tdep well if ever his/her Lab were ever raided.

"Isn't this one who brought in that weird collection of Everything ?"

Cops aren't that selective though, so perhaps just binning the contents (next door's bin) and ebaying the containers would be the better disposal plan.

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by aga]

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by aga]

Are they cardboard? The pictures look like glass vials with paper labels wrapped around them.

I am sure that a lot of the items in the eBay query below would have detectable traces of drugs on them, maybe.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=antique+apothecary&...

So what say you?

The fact he has chemicals and glassware does change the situation a bit, though, which is where I am at a loss.

Zombie - 3-3-2015 at 14:23

40% say Yay Cops, 60% say no to cops.

Like I said earlier... What a world we have created for ourselves...

People pulling blinds because of their hobby, yet 11 year old's are selling crack in the streets.

Where do I begin?

There was an episode of Antiques Road Show, where the fella brought in an 1890's vintage "Pharmacological sample case".
Beautiful wood box with three layers of compartmentalized trays. Each tray had approx. 30 compartments that held approx. One Ounce vials of every available drug made at that time.

The complete item was a GEM!

Then the owner says there are two vials missing. My older brother found the case a few years before I ever saw it.

Road show guy says, Yes. I noticed... Morphine, and Marijuana are missing. That being what it is does not really detract from the price. The missing vials can still be found at auction, or on line.

Much ado about nothing.

Don't worry about us!!! Throw a 1899 party, and have lot's of "Red Eye" handy.
Anyone know how long coke lasts?

adk - 3-3-2015 at 14:28

Donate to the American Chemical Society collection or a museum.

A

Zombie - 3-3-2015 at 14:48

Quote: Originally posted by adk

Donate to the American Chemical Society collection or a museum.

A

You understand that 99% of what goes into museums is stored off site, and NEVER see's the light of day again.

That is until the institute needs money, and your 'donation" is auctioned off.

It's like taking a cat to go run on the farm... There is no farm.

Just sayin'

diddi - 3-3-2015 at 14:55

it could also be worth contacting one of the museums and seeing if they will purchase the whole kit. you might have a nice find that is worth a dollar. I would try melb or Sydney

a similar find was on "antiques roadshow" last week

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by diddi]

Marvin - 3-3-2015 at 15:34

Going to the police will just see the samples destroyed. If you contact anyone try phoning a *big* university pharmacy department. At my old uni they had all sorts on display including ergot. They will have a good idea what the law is and what bodies are qualified/licenced to preserve them and if they are worth saving.

jock88 - 3-3-2015 at 16:40

yea yea yea yea yea yea man, I'll take them off your hands man

DON'T DESTROY. They have been there for the last hundred years doing no harm. Keep them for another hundred and they will be worth a fortune

Tdep - 3-3-2015 at 18:23

Good to hear everyone's opinions.

I feel like I should explain myself better. I don't distrust the police. But, in a lab in view of my house I have iodine solution, potassium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, sides of match boxes (they always seem a waste to throw out...), hydrochloric... You know how it is. I'm not worried about getting raided though, as I've never done organic chemistry that would come even close to making any drugs, and a complete swab of the lab would show up clean. That changes though if a vial of ephedrine shows up in my room.

What was I doing? Was I stocking the lab with intent to convert some of these chemicals? Was I reverse engineering the cocaine? Maybe I've been buying old samples overseas and converting them, maybe I have a huge stockpile somewhere else of old ephedrine, where there's one vial there might be hundreds, it could've been a huge vet clinic? Reading MrBlank's story from the neighbouring state shows just how seriously the police take a positive (or false positive) test for amphetamines in a home lab setting.

The atropine sulphate is safe. The codeine as well I believe, as with the NG. The strychnine I don't feel comfortable with destroying myself, but if I'm honest it's not like I'm not planning to work with azides or Mercury in future so I should have the facilities to deal with it.

Perhaps the idea floated by j_sum1 made me think that I'll get a bit of an 'drug antioffense', a gold star next to my name, so if I go in a few months later and perhaps mention that my grandmas place has turned up a small vial of mercury waste, they'll take it without too many more questions. Will take it there though.

For now, no rush. And, if anything, this post should give me some nice evidence for my good intentions.

zed - 13-3-2015 at 16:53

Well, you could tuck it away somewhere private. It is after-all a family heirloom.

Or, alternately.....you could shoot up all of that dope, and dance naked on yer roof.

Or, you could get yourself a horse. Here in The States, different rules are applied to veterinary type drugs. Prescription items may not require a prescription, if they are intended for use on animals.

crazyboy - 13-3-2015 at 17:32

Whether to keep or destroy them is your business, personally I'm a bit of a pack rat and would be inclined to keep them but if keeping a number of controlled substances makes you nervous (not surprising) I would not recommend that you contact the police. Best case scenario is that they're reasonable, and destroy them. Worst case you get arrested and they get a warrant to rip your house apart. Why risk it?

Magpie - 13-3-2015 at 18:16

A few years ago I had some boxes of .22 caliber and .300 caliber bullets that I no longer needed as I had sold the guns. I had heard some years earlier that you could take unwanted bullets to the police for proper disposal. So I took the bullets down to my local station, a place I had never been to before. First of all there were no policemen there, just a receptionist. (I found this very strange.) She acted like I was doing something strange. I asked her if I could just leave the bullets with her to give to the police. She reluctantly agreed and told me to put them on the floor outside her window. Then she insisted on getting my name, address, and phone number.

I got the impression that the police were impersonal automatons. Their reaction to your good intentions is unpredictable and unlikely to gain you any favorable standing with them. Possibly your good intentions could work against you.

[Edited on 14-3-2015 by Magpie]

Zombie - 13-3-2015 at 19:43

Quote: Originally posted by Magpie

Possibly your good intentions could work against you.

[Edited on 14-3-2015 by Magpie]

ANYTHING you say can, and will be used against you!

Sound familiar?

WeaponsRx - 16-3-2015 at 18:46

Man you all are a bunch of whining pu%*((&s, First off, NO, dont be foolish and throw ANY OF THAT away. That stuff is not going to be used for recreation reasons, and to be quite honest, considering the fact that your chances of getting A)caught with any of it if left just as you found it, is less then the chances of you getting pulled over and having a cop plant drugs on you.... and part B of A, even if say you did get caught with it (which would only be in a home raid because your not taking it driving around town showing it off, they would clearly know that there is zero intent in its actual use, and no D.A would ever waste there time to even prosecute you for LOOK AT IT! ITS NOT A CLASSIC CRACK HEADS FOIL WRAPPED CRACK PIPE WITH A SYRINGE AND LIGHTER WITH IT! What you have there is awesome history of not only how it was once prescribed, packaged, and so forth, but your grandfather as well. now B) I dont know how old you are exactly, but if you keep all that in its exact condition, stored just as it was if not better, that can be worth some great money when you are older for all sorts of historic reasons in a museum or god knows...

You do NOT need the unnecessary attention brought upon yourself because believe me, that will be recorded, along with the rest of the shit you innocently do in your home, by much more then just local authorities. It would be absolutely one of the dumbest things you could do by calling the police for you've found grampas old cough syrup. The cops will probably be more upset over the fact that you were such a pu$%^& to have them come "properly dispose" of shit YOU PROBABLY KNOW EVEN MORE SO HOW IT IN FACT SHOULD BE DONE! IF YOU EVEN ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO MENTION SOMETHING IN REGARDS TO ANY OF IT BEING RADIO ACTIVE.... LOL you really think a police officer with a gun is going to show up, and will know his head from his a$$ let alone his pistol from his D%$@, and now radio active? hahahaha great way to put your self in MUCH UNNEEDED SPOT LIGHT and of the list of people to watch.... regardless if you dont break the law, theres no reason for them to know your name, plain and simple. the way things are going right now in this country, that exactly what YOU SHOULDNT WANT. Just my 2 cents. What you have is awesome, should not be disposed of leaving you with empty jars no, leave it as it is. youll be happy you did years from now when some historic organization offers you X amount of money to display it in a science of medicine exhibit. IF ANYTHING! CALL THEM AND DONATE IT TO THEM IN ONE CONDITION, YOUR GRAMPS NAME RECEIVES CREDIT SOMEHOW IN ITS SHOW CASE.

WeaponsRx - 16-3-2015 at 18:52

Quote: Originally posted by Magpie

A few years ago I had some boxes of .22 caliber and .300 caliber bullets that I no longer needed as I had sold the guns. I had heard some years earlier that you could take unwanted bullets to the police for proper disposal. So I took the bullets down to my local station, a place I had never been to before. First of all there were no policemen there, just a receptionist. (I found this very strange.) She acted like I was doing something strange. I asked her if I could just leave the bullets with her to give to the police. She reluctantly agreed and told me to put them on the floor outside her window. Then she insisted on getting my name, address, and phone number.

I got the impression that the police were impersonal automatons. Their reaction to your good intentions is unpredictable and unlikely to gain you any favorable standing with them. Possibly your good intentions could work against you.

[Edited on 14-3-2015 by Magpie]

ONCE STUPID! BUT TURNED INTO A SMART MAN! thats solid advice right there, and guess what, that ammunition was probably taken home and later shot by those pigs.... when he could have sold that .300 for a nice penny! When ever you do anything like that, just as I dropped off a purse I found, they wanted all my info, I simply said nope, all im here to do is get the owner of this purse her belongings back. No need to have any of my information at all. She wants to thank me? Guess what, I can already hear her saying it, shes welcome. bye! lol wouldnt doubt if cops saw the value in what you have and just did the same thing and collected cash or simply credit for it... your not going to jail for 40 year old shit thats probably not even able to test positive anymore LOL

[Edited on 17-3-2015 by WeaponsRx]

j_sum1 - 16-3-2015 at 21:01

That was a rant if I ever saw one. Maybe I should highlight one thing:

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

... the way things are going right now in this country...

Tdep is not in the same country as you.
The laws are different.
The culture is different.
Police practice is different. In particular, police corruption is seldom even heard of.
Drug culture is different.
Chemical and drug watch lists are different.

Which all goes to there not being much relevant in your little tirade

Chemosynthesis - 16-3-2015 at 23:28

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

your not going to jail for 40 year old shit thats probably not even able to test positive anymore LOL

Please don't make up numbers or talk about drug stability without knowing what you're talking about. Properly stored narcotics can last decades without significant enough degradation to test negative, even if they are not necessarily the same polymorph that is active in the body. The ester bonds of cocaine and the oxidation of morphine and codeine would be what I would expect, but any intermediate dimerization products would certainly be capable of giving a false positive daughter fragment in mass spec, and that is assuming that temperature, moisture, oxygen, and time have all had their effect. At least one of those looks hermetially sealed. I don't know when they were made, the exact pharmacopeia guidelines, formulation environment, etc. but I'm not making a claim either way.

Also not giving advice. I know people who disposed of old military/police flashbang style stun grenades from a deceased relative, but they did it through backchannels... not walking right up or calling. No idea what the police there would do, and it may differ between different agencies. Some of those might be regulated differently than others (apomorphine as an emetic or narcotic? Poisons act with drugs for the strychnine?).

Tdep - 17-3-2015 at 00:57

Should've known this would bring out the anti-police rants haha.

No update, the box is once again gathering dust - just now it's on a different shelf. Guess it is rather good at that, and that's looking like how it will stay.

Let's be honest, if someone wanted to arrest me, pretty sure my long history of explosives manufacturing is a much easier target than 3mg of cocaine from 1950 in my possession.

WeaponsRx - 17-3-2015 at 16:58

Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1

That was a rant if I ever saw one. Maybe I should highlight one thing:

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

... the way things are going right now in this country...

For one,
You have the slightest clue to where I actually live,
Two, there is all the relevance in the world to my "tirade" as ITS ALL TRUE! Hes NOT getting busted, hes NOT going to face the law in ANY COUNTRY for possessing what hes got, and three he would achieve NOTHING but unwanted attention to himself by being an god dam pussy and turning in what his grandfather left behind.... now if you want to raise your arms in the air when the train pulls up in your neighborhood, GREAT! Dont worry! your only being relocated to a exotic island near Fiji! hop on in! dumb ass... your living in a fairy tale to have as much confidence in the gov. you call yours guy.... good luck to you. All I got to say is i'd take a noose to my neck if this guy ever got prosecuted for having these.... I forgot, suddenly everyone in heres a DA thats been through law school and works for the gov.

WeaponsRx - 17-3-2015 at 16:59

you sir, are a pussy, and in this day and age, just like the nice guys in the 80's, youll finish last.

Bert - 17-3-2015 at 19:00

Gentlemen.

Please resist the urge to flame, most especially outside of whimsy.

If those who have done so will PLEASE edit their own comments in line with the forum FAQ, I shall not need to get out the voodoo dolls and acupuncture pins...

http://www.sciencemadness.org/madscifaq.html#2.2_Board_etiqu...

j_sum1 - 17-3-2015 at 22:01

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1

That was a rant if I ever saw one. Maybe I should highlight one thing:

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

... the way things are going right now in this country...

For one,
You have the slightest clue to where I actually live,

My apologies. Something you said made me assume that you were talking about the US. I think it might have been the reference to "crack". Crack is not a common term in Australia.

WeaponsRX, if you are indeed Australian then I admit my error and retract my statement. If you are not a resident of Australia then I think my comment still stands -- there are cultural and administrative differences that should be considered.

Chemosynthesis - 18-3-2015 at 01:15

Quote: Originally posted by WeaponsRx

and three he would achieve NOTHING but unwanted attention to himself by being [expletives removed for quotation purposes] and turning in what his grandfather left behind....

You mean grandmother. Not everyone recommended turning over the samples to law enforcement, so that is a huge mischaracterization, but it was Tdep himself who initially seemed convicted of the prudence of destroying them, so if you aren't going to behave civilly, why try so hard to influence what Tdep does with his own property?

The facts are that at least some of those substances will almost certainly test positive. I don't need to talk about the stability of pills and solid drug dosage forms, excipients, etc. nor do I mean to give legal advice for where Tdep is (the only legal advice that matters).

I'm just interested in information so that people can make informed decisions. No name calling, no wild numerical fabrications, and hopefully no arguments. Tdep is the only one who can make the risk assessment on what to do, whether that means destroying, forfeiting, or keeping any substances. He says he practiced energetics, and Australia has had customs appear very interested in chemistry orders, according to posts on this site. He knows better than we do, I presume, what his risk level is, and he is the only one who can make the value judgment on what to do, if properly informed, which is what I believe he asked for in the end of this post here: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=61... . This is his thread, and he was kind enough to share pictures of his heirlooms. Let's not mislead him through emotion or ignorance.

Little_Ghost_again - 8-10-2015 at 02:56

Keep them, they are clearly old and you have a good back story with Granny. No way even if arrested would this fly in court. Different story if you had purchased them as a collector on ebay though.
But seeing as its a pass down I dont see a problem

eesakiwi - 20-10-2015 at 22:47

I'd take them to a licenced chemist or 'Drugstore' (where ever you get your prescriptions filled out) and get them to clean out the vials so you can still keep them as antiques.

You do't really know whats in those vials, even with a name tag on it. The average person does not know what "Diacetylmorphine' is or any other weird chemical name, or medicine.

A licensed pharmicist knows what they are doing, they are also licensed. And thats licensed to hold these chemicals.
So as soon as you have handed over your "I got no idea of what this is except it could be compounds and I like the look of the historic containers so could you please get rid of the contents for me sir, but I would like the clean empty containers back"
You have done your part.

If its in a complete box or such, take it all in and let them go thru it and remove whatever they want, but so you get the empty containers back, its part of a set.

I wouldn't be suprised if the pharmicist wanted to buy the whole set off you, as they do like historic stuff.