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The Utah State Chemist's Office is an important link in the adjudication of the hundreds of suspe led narcotics violators arrested in Utah each year For its tip to the state chemist to determine whether the "evidence" found on a suspect is one of the !Hindle& of narcotie or controlled drugs now available or something as simple a' ordinaty sugar the object of our Wilford Lieber a staff member who once worked for a Swiss pharmaceutical firm "is to find as little as 150 "Often tests" says micrograms of a drug in a suspect pill or capsote" HE EXPLAINED 150 micrograms is equal to about one grain of granulated sugar During 19t8 Mr Lieber spent nearly 95 percent of his time analyzing the 167 suspected drug samples brought in by Utah lawAn 'average" lest he men note s takes just 0 (I two hours 'Sul sometimes—when the officer has no idea vhat type of drug is involved—the tests take nitwit lotig(T" says 11r Lieber Szlit Lake Tribune "Some of the manufactured by laboratories was ordinary give me an idea for" he added spot-chcck- s 'early' LSD underground so weak 'hatt failed to what to look Mr Lieber said the first step in analyzing a sample is a " during which various reagents will cause certain colors to appear in samples substance when the sought-afteis present Once the spot test establishes the general grouping of the substance Mr Lieber begins an extraction process the end of which Is the Crystallization of the pure drug form "spot-check- r Under a microscope bombarded by polarized light the crystals appear as multiittasd "barbs" thin "blades" or radiant "fern branches" THE SHAPE of the crystal along with its coloriog is the unmistakable "fingerprint'' of each drug For instance heroin 0hich no longer is among the mast common drugs in use) takes on the appearance of a spiny shell horse-chestn- kari MIN c1! says : 44:WW-z:r:'::-ig:::4'::"e:- : tr7k' l' ' t— ‘1'iii"4L - ii1 te-Of- ::i:: ' : ::':i - ::: :'1 1 :':''''' i li'l 144 1 4 1 Plt!':'-':'-'t'--""tA- ' 0 iniommwmmouimmilmolole "WHEN THAT HAPPENS have to begin a lengthy process desiged to extract the 'pure stuff' from the filler" "Under a microscope" Sunday March 9 1969 Ull 4t7::' 11 I t t 4 Word Lieber staff member of Utah State Chemist's office applies reagent to a suspected na reolic drug Reaction seen under microscope identifies drug 1 "many of the crystals are quite beautiful Sometimes they look like feathery prisms or grain-likMr Lieber six-side- e needles" To ‘'erify the results of the "The machine is used extensively in drug analysis for law enforcement agencies" said Mr Lieber "It's quite an amazing device microscopic examination Mr Lieber then takes the crystallized drug and inserts it into a machine that looks a lot like a polygraph or lie detector "A pharmaceutical firm back East recently sent me a grapi from a similar machine showing the 'fingerprints' of a drug they manufacture "It's an inflated spectrophotometer" says Mr Lieber "JUST OUT OF curiosity I put the same substance into our machine The two charts vete identical yet they were run on actually 'fingerprints" the molecular makeup of the ding LIEBER said the machine nhich "shoots" infrared light through a slide containing the drug is based on the fact that certain molecules absorb certain timounts of light When light is absorbed by a molecule he said a needle on the machine makes a mark on y-calibrated graph paper The peaks cones and lines On the graph provide unimpeachable evidence regarding the nature of the substance speciall- different machines by difterent men In widely separated ateas of the country "It's as exacting as a finger- print" Mr Lieber said most drugs he tests fall into four gencral classifications: hallucinogens (like LSD peyote and STP) stimolants (coacine "speed" deand other amphetamines) (barbitur 1tes) and pressants d narcotics (opium morphine heroin) "Last year mnre than half the tests I conducted dealt lib The marijuana " he added next most widely used Mug was followed by 'speed Once the tests are completed Mr Lieber usually appears in court to testify to his findings Ills hours of work usually are reduced to a one or answer to the question "Arid what did your tests tevcril?" two-wor- ONE OF THE NiosT frightening facts his years of analysis have revealed Mr Licher said is the poor quality cxliihited in products of the "clatulestine" labs "They have no control" he said "Sometimes the pills contain 'Imost lethal (loses of LSD while other times there isn't enough LSD in a capsule to produce a s'ngle trip" "I guess it's because they have no control That's then a 'trip' ends in a destroyed mind" 5 SMILEEMMIMeminiEMIE1MINIIEMMIMEMJ |