Methamphetamine in Iran

[arman]

Meth use in iran:
Meth use is growing rapidly here in iran, 2 years ago almost no-one knows whats is meth, it is called "Shishe" (glass) here (BTW, still no one knows meth by its name).

Price:
It is really expensive here, actually it is the same as in the usa, but due to 1:8000 ratio between Dollar and Rial (iran money currency) it is really hard for average people to buy meth. But SWIM predicts it is going to become much cheaper in the next 2-3 years due to availability of meth production precursors which will cause a lot of people to easily cook meth everywhere in this country, but it is a slow progress cause very little number of people actually knows that it can be made easily and that precursors are available without any hassles, plus there is no meth production recipe anywhere (even on internet) available in Farsi, and many people in iran can't read english well enough. SWIM thinks meth has a really bright business future in iran.

Addiction rate:
SWIM personally can't find any meth addict here, cause only a very small percent (maybe 1%) of people have enough income to continue their meth use more than 2-3 time per month, and thats a good thing I think. and still dominant drug here (which are also really cheap) is opiods like Opium (first place+long history) and Heroin(2nd place). Almost 2 millions of iranian people (irans population is 70million) have an addiction to these drugs, one of the reasons being having a large young population (around 25%) and high rates of unemployment. So, I think iran is one of the countries with lowest meth addicts and should have lowest ratio between its non-meth addicts and its meth addicts in world.

Law and government:
But police (and special anti-drug police) never consider controlling any drug before it becomes a national disaster, I think this is also true for meth. As dogs of Iran police don't recognize meth smell, cuz they are just trained to detect heroin, opium and such. Even most polices in iran don't know about meth physical apearance. But the drug penalties are very heavy for meth cookers and dealers, but still heavier for opium and heroin dealers.

Also another bad thing about meth is that it is almost unknown (specially relative to opioids) and there is high risk of overdosage and addiction. As there is no education or warning made by government there is a growing number of misinformation around meth and other new drugs (like MDMA) which IMHO is really bad. For example many people think meth can't cause any addiction/dependence, plus a lot of antidrugs misinformation too.

Conclusion:
So, overall meth use/availaility in iran is very limited right now, but in SWIM opinion it is going to replace opioid use (which have a very long history of use) by the next generation.
(copyright SWIM+meth)

Reputation Comments on this post:

	good report
	Good situation overview
	quite an interesting post. with all the americans in iraq this seems very likely. Meth is cheap and easy as hell to ma...

[iranian]

you hit the spot dude!
meth business have bright futer in here.

[Raz]

arman: Good info. Can you tell more about which precursors (which route) and how are they avaliable ? Through black market or OTC ?

[iranian]

hi Raz.
excuse me can tell me what is OTC?
then I can provide you with some info

[Dexyfiend]

OTC = Over The Counter...

...meaning it can be purchased legally

[iranian]

oh thanks about that dexy.
no it is not OTC you should buy it illigal. 5-6 years before it was exported to the country but these years meth labs are growing.
of course meth here is low quality and compared to other drugs it's expensive.

[kerang]

Can swiY tell about the situation in Iran when it comes to other substances apart from opiates. It's a bit off topic, but swim is curious and never knew much about what goes on in Iran when it comes to MDMA, LSD and such.

[goozook]

arman, nice to meet ya
nice job dude.
swim thinks meth never can take over opioid in iran, swim is a big fan of nearly all form of opioid , the only thing is u must be cautious.
btw swiy cant never score a pure meth here, like everything here its a mess. n about the production swim prefers to produce acid which the process time and complexity in the worst case is nearly equal to Meth's.

goozook added 6 Minutes and 43 Seconds later...

Originally Posted by kerang

Can swiY tell about the situation in Iran when it comes to other substances apart from opiates. It's a bit off topic, but swim is curious and never knew much about what goes on in Iran when it comes to MDMA, LSD and such.

well MDMA is really easy to score, but Acid is somehow rare, but swim have socerd it several times without any problem.
swim never could find mushroom in spite of trying hard, nor pure cocaine, salvia, Kratum, ....
swim have seen some people growing san pedro and extracting mescalin, of course swim haven't found any dealer to have it.

[Raz]

Originally Posted by goozook

about the production swim prefers to produce acid which the process time and complexity in the worst case is nearly equal to Meth's.

SWIM "produces" LSD and he thinks it's as complex as a meth synth ?

[goozook]

Originally Posted by Raz

SWIM "produces" LSD and he thinks it's as complex as a meth synth ?

but Meth production surely take more time in 2 methods that swim knows.

[tryptamaster]

dude lol. off-topic, but my name is arman too! and im half-iranian. so when the guy asked how its made if its otc, he didnt mean is the meth otc. are the precousers otc? like do the cooks use psuedo/ephedrine?

[iranian]

psudoephidrin is over the counter. but these day it is getting a bit dificult. but just a bit.
swim thinks that these new drugs CAN replace opiods in iran.
and goozoook is swiy PRODUCING acid and think that is simple??????
swim even have problem reading the recipe compared to the easy meth recipe!!!

[Euthanatos93420]

You just love these old topics eh? lol

Meth>LSD in every aspect of synthesis: Difficulty, complexity, variety, time etc. by a fair margin.

[iranian]

some times you find good things in old posts.
and about LSD. swim knows 2 ways to make LSD. one is extracting from morning glory seeds wich is difficult due to growig the flower and these shit.
and another method is the one wich is written in PIHKAL. it used some chemicals wich I didnt heard their names in life time. and was about 2 pages with small font.
if swiy knows a better way please tell swim.
and swim think phosphor+iodin is quiet easy to do it take you only one day to raech high quality meth

[old hippie 56]

Always thought the internet was heavily monitored over there!

[iranian]

it is.

[Euthanatos93420]

Very true....I allowed myself to be distracted. ALthough it was a statement of relativity. One would refer those interested to the archive.

[Raz]

iranian: SWIM meant if ephedrine could be bough legally.