^^^Nope, and to be honest I don't think I ever will. That's the hardest part of all this "research" is that much of it will likely remain speculation for quite some time.
The reason I never will and the reason most others won't take on a similar challenge is because when you only get a limited number of rolls in this lifetime it's hard to justify using so many of them in the name of something that quite frankly isn't as important to me as just living my life.
Now if I did take up this double blind challenge, it would take me at least two years, but more like 4-5 for me to complete. Again not time that either I nor anyone else have.. It couldn't be pushed along any faster or else tolerance would become a major potential issue.
Then there is the fact my above summary is a generalization, MDMA can be made from safrole and feel very close to mdma made from other precursors if the purity is high enough.
If you read what I wrote and come away with the notion there is two distinct groups of mdma (i.e. Safrole mdma vs not-from-saf mdma..) then you need to go back to post 1 of mine..
That's problem number 2. There is no distinct groups because each batch is unique and two batches could be made from safrole but if one is 60% pure with the rest being impurities VS 99% pure, there is going to be quite the difference between those two despite the same precursor being used to start.
I think all we will ever get from this is a rough idea, this is never going to be an exact science simply due to the factors I outlined plus others I haven't. Science will always have these barriers and if we say to ourselves "welp I can't setup a reliable double blind, not even worth trying.." then no one would ever get anywhere in progressing our current knowledge base.
-GC
The reason I never will and the reason most others won't take on a similar challenge is because when you only get a limited number of rolls in this lifetime it's hard to justify using so many of them in the name of something that quite frankly isn't as important to me as just living my life.
Now if I did take up this double blind challenge, it would take me at least two years, but more like 4-5 for me to complete. Again not time that either I nor anyone else have.. It couldn't be pushed along any faster or else tolerance would become a major potential issue.
Then there is the fact my above summary is a generalization, MDMA can be made from safrole and feel very close to mdma made from other precursors if the purity is high enough.
If you read what I wrote and come away with the notion there is two distinct groups of mdma (i.e. Safrole mdma vs not-from-saf mdma..) then you need to go back to post 1 of mine..
That's problem number 2. There is no distinct groups because each batch is unique and two batches could be made from safrole but if one is 60% pure with the rest being impurities VS 99% pure, there is going to be quite the difference between those two despite the same precursor being used to start.
I think all we will ever get from this is a rough idea, this is never going to be an exact science simply due to the factors I outlined plus others I haven't. Science will always have these barriers and if we say to ourselves "welp I can't setup a reliable double blind, not even worth trying.." then no one would ever get anywhere in progressing our current knowledge base.
-GC