Quote from: Hundred_Gram_Oz on August 07, 2012, 10:15 pmQuote from: pine on August 07, 2012, 08:15 pmIn fact, I cannot think of a better product to transact on the silk road in terms of security/risk tradeoff. Shame the quality has been so hit and miss so far. Good LSD vendors would clean up on SR. I for would would pay more for less for a genuine supply of high quality acidThere's ongoing efforts all the time, as you'd expect when something is at least 30k a gram (that's right folks, some wannabe Walter White might think he's a total badass at ~100k per kg street value, but an LSD manufacturer operating at the same level of output would be bringing down 30 million dollars :o , obviously production would typically be nowhere near a kg per month, more like a couple of grams, but still! The mind boggles!), but the main problem with LSD production has always been centralization. It is non-trivial to produce but if you do so you can absorb a large percentage of world market share very quickly due to the lack of competition. If you look at things like operation Julie in Wales, or more recently the lab operating in an Atlas missile silo in Kansas (genius idea I have to admit, even if that connection fucked him in the end), it was always easy to boost production from nothing to incredible amounts and dominate the market as a result. Problem is that is not the way to go, decentralization and swarming is a better idea, but for that you have to simplify the entire synthesis A-Z to achieve that just for a chemist of normal ability and experience, which is what a bunch of people are working on. I'm not an expert in LSD, but there surely can't be more than 10 or 20 serious clandestine labs in the world? Anyway, somebody was saying that the synth can be simplified hugely, and that small scale production will be possible in the future, but we'll have to wait and see.