Talk:Methamphetamine

Archived old talk page

I archived the talk page to Archive 03, the talk page was long and 2 years old. I think it was long overdue. -C6541 (T↔C) at 21:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Crystal meth is not meth

Crystal methamphetamine is not the same thing as methamphetamine any more than crack is the same thing as powder cocaine. Someone should either remove the part where they are referred to as identical and rewrite a subsection about crystal, or start a new page on crystal meth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.240.94 (talk) 15:28, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Crystal meth is methamphetamine, methamphetamine does not come in a freebase (rarely it does but not in crystalline form) so your comparison between cocaine (hydrochloride) and crack cocaine (freebase) is not valid. Sincerally, C6541 (T↔C) at 15:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Crystal meth is methamphetamine in the form of crystals. It's more easily smoked and is assumed to be of greater purity, which I imagine it often is. The article should address this more clearly. 98.71.213.249 (talk) 14:55, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

6 months protection

I got the article protected for six months. Let us improve it during that time, shall we? Sincerally, C6541 (T↔C) at 21:39, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Chemical structure

I'm not a master of IUPAC convention or anything, but wouldn't a more accurate chemical structure be one showing that the methyl on carbon 2 of the alkyl chain (the chiral center) be a mixture of stereoisomers...similar to how amphetamine is represented as a mixture of stereoisomers? Methamphetamine's stereochemistry is just as important but only showing the (S)-isomer [the illicit isomer] is kind of misleading. Or...maybe I'm just nitpicking... -Novaprospekt (talk) 00:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually there is a separate levomethamphetamine article, so I would imagine this article only deals with dextromethamphetamine (which is misleading because the article title is simply methamphetamine which implies a racemic substance), but if you can make an image representing the accurate stereochemistry of the racemic compound and can replace the current image with it, please do so. Sincerally, C6541 (T↔C) at 01:21, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I built a new structure using ACD ChemSketch but I can't seem to export it into a suitable format for wikipedia, i.e. the .svg format. I can only export as a .bmp, .gif, and .png which are quite small and crappy compared to the types already here. If you know of how I can do this, let me know -- I have the proper racemic structure ready. -Novaprospekt (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2009 (UTC)