The discovery of methamphetamine?

[Bram_]

Does anyone know who first isolated and discovered methamphetmine?  I thought it would be interesting to find out the methods discovered to find out how they synthesized methamphetmine discovery.  

Jamison Schuetz
http://www.geocities.com/jsheetz20012005/ :tea:

[Dr. Suess]

Check here.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

I have also found it interesting that methamphetamine is NOT a completely synthetic compound. Although our awareness of it may be at first due to the Japanese synthesis of it, It is a naturally occurring alkaloid in the plant Acacia Rigidula.

[Avery L. Breath]

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1588147

Abstract
Acacia rigidula Benth., blackbrush, is a shrub found growing on rocky ridges in west and southwest Texas and northern Mexico. Consumption of blackbrush and a related species guajillo, Acacia berlandieri Benth., has been associated with a locomotor ataxia known as limber leg. In an effort to identify the mechanism of this toxicity, blackbrush was subjected to rigorous chemical analysis. In addition to the four previously detected amines, N-methyl-β-phenethylamine, tyramine, N-methyltyramine, and hordenine, 40 other alkaloids and amines were isolated and identified by GC-MS. These alkaloids and amines included nicotine, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, several tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids, and four amphetamines. A significant increase in the number and relative quantities of these compounds was observed in late season foliage.

[laughingwillow]

SO it gives you the jimmy leg, eh?