Is This Adrenachrome?

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Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

There isn't such a thing as adrenachrome...if you read Hunter S. Thompson's comments on the book he said that he made it up....at least that is what i hear from my sources....:pimp:
Peace

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This guys right, its effects were made up, i dont even think theres such a thing. Check erowid

Adrenochrome is a red pigment obtained by oxidation of epinephrine.

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Originally Posted by darkside

no adrenalin is epinephrine, the body's fight or flight hormone. adrenochrome is different and is nothing like it is on fear and loathing.

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chemically adrenochrome is a prerequisite to epinephrine, if the urban myths are true then you have to extract it directly from the gland, that way it isn't metabolized into the other chemicals like adrenaline.

i FUCKIN love fear and loathing in las Vegas! one of the greatest movies of all time imho,

" The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. "