[NO2]

Hi
As a hobby chemist, I've stumbled over many illegal drug recipes, just searching for common methods (Birch reduction (methamp.), tosylation (Ecstacy)) etc.
If anyone wanted to make said molecules, they would have no reason to ask here.
I'd go so far as to say, the illegal (and rightfully so) substances are probably the easiest to make, given the massive information availability.

I understand that aiding a crime is a crime, hence the extra caution.
P.S. The best birch reduction tutorial I found happened to be on a such questionable site. If you want to know what I'm doing, send a PM, I have really nothing to hide and all the questions I have made on this site would become clear.
Thanks again to all for the tips.

[wildfyr]

I know this has been freaking forever, but its as good a place as any to share a tip. You can get pyridine and a lot of other amines out of organic solutions bu washing with copper sulfate. You get a copper coordination complex that is often water soluble (and nice colors!), and its quite mild, no acid needed.