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Re:How to Buy Drugs by swiley on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:45PM (#21457587)
If by cyanide you mean hydrogen cyanide that sounds to me like something trivially easy to manufacture on your own. The permit thing must be to protect people from hurting themselves.

EDIT: yeah it is, if I’m reading Wikipedia right (and it’s accurate, I’ve seen bad chemistry on it before) a teenager could make it with ammonia and charcoal from Walmart.

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Re:How to Buy Drugs by airbreather on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:49PM (#21458204)
Carbon in pulp gold miners/producers buy it by the hundreds of tonnes, key part of extracting mineralised gold.

While toxicity is very high and thousands of people handle it daily, number deaths at Gold mines is very low - I don't know last time Western Australia had an accidental cyanide death and there are hundreds of mines with 7% of global production from the state.

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