Drug Lab

Dissolving Drugs

Testing Drugs

In this lab, we tested for three different drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD. We tested unknown solutions to see if they were any of these drugs. We tested six possibilities where the cocaine reagent turned it blue, and LSD turned it yellow. Mr. Kelly couldnt obtain false meth, so we only tested two things. The second and fourth testers were cocaine, and the sixth was LSD. We assumed that the rest were meth through process of elimination. Before the tests could be completed, we had to dissolve the drugs in water. This is a image of this process. We also used pH to find what drugs were what.

This shows the reaction in the fourth lab. (Photo from Reina Terada). Here the cocaine reagent turned blue, proving it was cocaine. The LSD reagent turned red, instead of yellow so it was negative. We also knew it was negative because of the pH of 8.