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by snapplebobapple 46 days ago
Hey, I saw your comment on my suggestion of switching to drama instead of switching animals on the cocaine bear thread and just wanted to correct an apparent misunderstanding of meth. I can't comment over there any more because I missed it for too long so I'm doing it here, which I hope isn't so against the rules as to annoy anyone. Meth is both excreted and metabolized and then the metabolites excreted in urine but the metabolites are pretty psycho active as well.This is done primarily with the liver enzyme CYP2D6 which primarily metabolized it to amphetamine and 4-hydroxymethamphetamine, which are both psycho active. The end result is 30-50% methamphetamine excreted unchanged and the rest the metabolites of which most are the two mentioned and psychoactive themselves. The ratio is primarily determined by the urine PH.The more you know (tm)
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Uhm... Hm...

This person is a meth scientist? What . Okay. Don't want to know.

comedian making a joke about cocaine bear movie sequel addressing factual inaccuracies in a reply to the joke. Not a meth scientist, just fascinated by biology and chemistry.
Hey I am not shaming you. You do you okay. If the apocalypse ever happens we will need people like you.