Everyone who has seen the tv series "Breaking Bad" knows what I am talking about: Walter White aka Heisenberg's "product". For those who don't know the series: The protagonist, Walter White is a genius chemist that works as a teacher at high school. When he gets diagnosed with lung cancer he decides to disobey all his moral believes and starts living a second, secret life as a drug dealer who produces methamphetamine. His code name is Heisenberg, in relation to the German physicist an Nobel prize laureate Werner Karl Heisenberg. Due to his outstanding knowledge about chemistry he is able to develop a new technique to produce methamphetamine from phenyl acetone instead of extracting it from pharmaceutical drugs which are hard to obtain. And because Walter is such a talented chemist, he manages to "cook" meth which is so pure that it develops a blue colour during the fabrication process.
But is this how it really works? I am very into science, biology and chemistry in particular, so I wanted to find out if this is a fact or just fiction, and did some research....
... and I am sorry, but I have to disappoint you - even the purest meth is not blue, pure methamphetamine is transparent and looks like ice or glass. But that doesn't mean that blue meth doesn't exist! There are several cases of blue meth reported, but chemical analysis showed that the blue colour came from ... blue colour. The drug had been coloured using blue dye, which is even more toxic and harmful than the drug itself.
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