That's hilarious about the mescaline blotters, I'd love to see a photo of one. I would struggle to fit a full dose of mescaline in a pressie.
And when you say 3,4-MDA, that's 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, right? Isn't that just normal MDA? How was 25 mg active, if that's so?
Also, what is p-Me AM? Para-methoxy something? I'm very cuous about it and the m-Me AM as well. Do you know the full chemical names or CAS numbers of any of these, AlsoTapered?
Given that about 350mg of the compound is needed to produce a full-on mescaline trip & knowing that DOB blotters with 5mg on each were usually 9 x 9 mm, I calculate that about 7.5 cm squares would be about right. Roughly the size of one of the original square Post It notes.
Exactly how one would apply the dose raises it's own interesting issues. I cannot be the only person who heard the old story where people refer to strong LSD blotters as being 'double dipped'. Well, I once helped a Dutch friend convert pure (and I'm sure we know the 'special test') liquid-crystal LSD (so called because the warmth of ones hands on the (brown) container would melt the product) and methanol, a dark room and about 4 days were required as we applied a single drop to each square.
My friend didn't/doesn't use drugs of any kind (not even caffeine) and was concerned about all the stories of people tripping while producing blotters so he obtained a supply of neuroleptics... and TBH, I didn't touch them and after 4 days my friend was a mess - neuroleptics REALLY seem to screw people up (and better ones are known and known to work bud didn't reach market due to a commercial reason - if you want to know the story, PM me).
Originally we had both p-Me aminorex and m-Me aminorex produced. The former was very mild and we started to think we had made a mistake. Then we tried m-Me aminorex and that turned out to be a stimulant which MAY have had some SERT activity, but it just felt like a stimulant.
It was actually my wife who tried mixing them 50:50 and said 'I THINK I have found the answer'. After about 40 people tried various ratios, it turned out that a 2:1 p/m ratio was, to quote her 'like MDA on steroids. THEN she pointed out that example 13 of the George Ireland Poos patent was for 3,4-MD aminorex... and thus MDAR was produced and shown to be indistinguishable from MDA... and legal at the time.
So the IDIOT (he knows who he is) had someone make p,4-dimethylaminorex that he graced with the name 'Serotonia'. My wife sampled it and said it was more or less identical to p-Me aminorex. Sadly, UK law was constantly banning things and our first (and sole) batch of MDAR was seized by the police in spite of it being legal. After 6 months it's possible to sue to get your material back but they knew the PSA law would come into force... so we never got it back.
BTW you cannot use the 'simple' KOCN route used to produce trans 4-MAR (and ring-substituted derivatives thereof). What you end up with is a substituted urea. Luckily a 1970s East German patent shows that the urea can be cyclized into (ring substituted) aminorex simply by heating in concentrated HCl. The problem is that a mixture of products are formed and not all of them can be removed using an A/B (or B/A in this case).
It's a shame because it really DOES offer an alternative to MDA. I would also add that (R) AMT is also a good substitute (as you know, racemic AET was sold AS MDA in the early 1980s BUT since only the (S) isomer of AMT has 5HT2a affinity, resolution offers a great alternative... one isomer is like MDA, the other is like LSD) but if you want the VERY bet, (R) a,7-dimethyl tryptamine (1-(7-methyl-1H-indol-3-yl)propan-2-amine) is ALSO like MDA... but 40mg is a BIG dose and the (S) isomer produces interesting effects. Hart to put into words but I guess 'a psychedelic with no visuals would be the best I can do for you. I'm pretty sure some other compounds have also been described this way. Your thinking is JUST like thinking on LSD but your vision isn't impacted.
Fast&bulbous is the expert in the detailed workings of psychedelics so if you want the details, I recommend you discuss it with them.
As always, if someone has references supporting or diverging from my own experiences, I am always glad to read them.