The ‘cookbook’ of the drug trade

Today, most illegal drugs are made in unreg­u­lated labs around the globe, from big enter­prises in China and India to single-per­son oper­a­tions run from apart­ments. Almost any eso­teric molecu­lar struc­ture or chem­istry study pub­lished online is instantly avail­able to ama­teur chem­ists and illi­cit drug sup­pli­ers – “the inter­net is the cook­book for the drug trade“.