Finding Molly: The Most Popular Name in EDM

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In the wake of Electric Zoo being canceled on its final day due to some unfortunate drug overdoses, I thought it was time someone from within the music business spoke up. Unfortunately, most people in the music business are devoid of swirling, spherical sacks of awesome, tucked between their legs. However, since I officially left the music business last Tuesday, I have no qualms about airing my former dirty laundry. The business of Electronic Dance Music, colloquially known as EDM, has a huge problem. People are dropping dead like flies. The following essay isn't a smoking gun; it's a fucking nuclear onslaught.

First things first: MDMA and "Molly" are two different things. I know what MDMA is, because I can use Wikipedia. Molly is something wholly different - because the person consuming it never really knows what they are taking. In my lifetime, I have done Molly more times than I can count, and I have never taken the same drug twice. It's not like marijuana, cocaine, or psilocybin mushrooms, where you know what you're getting. At least if my blow has been stomped on by more Mexican drug dealers than the entire cast of "Breaking Bad," I'll know the worst I'm putting in my nose is baby formula, some Bayer, and then maybe a tiny bit of cocaine. We've all had a bag of shitty weed - and yeah, it might give you a headache, but it's not going to kill you.

Molly isn't like that.

Molly is an anonymous powder, sometimes in bags, and sometimes in capsules. You can snort it or ingest it - whatever tickles your fancy. There have been times I have taken Molly and then said to myself, "Oh shit, this is definitely crystal meth." Sometimes I've been like, "Whoa, this is totally heroin." Other times I've thought, "Oh fuck. This is one of those alphabet soup nBOME hallucinogens." Or perhaps, "Is this fucking bath salts?" No matter what it was, it was called Molly - and that's why it's inherently dangerous. I'm all about doing drugs, don't get me wrong - I just like knowing what the hell I'm putting into my body.

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Foreigner said:
Other times I've thought, "Oh fuck. This is one of those alphabet soup nBOME hallucinogens."
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And this is the point where I stop really listening to what he's saying. Because no one would put the powder form of nBOME in a capsule and sell it as "Molly".
Now if he were talking about LSD, different story, but this tells me he doesn't know the active dose of an nBOME and has some mistaken beliefs.
EDIT: Okay, so I decided to read a little further and this guy's not so bad I guess. Really don't know what makes him think that nBOME is going around as "Molly" though...
 
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The article was fun to read, though he doesn't actually know what he's talking about.

Is good MDMA really that hard to acquire in the United States?
 
So I wanted to kind of get a better idea of this author, see if he actually seems like the kind of person who might have actually done what he claims to have done, and I subsequently visited his site "Brojackson".com. He had some interesting exchanges with people leaving comments, and this was one of his responses to a person claiming MDMA was not as dangerous as he was making "Molly" out to be. I think it's kind of a strange response to come from someone who supposedly sold thousands of dollars worth of illicit drugs over the last decade...

I think we're going to disagree here on MDMA. I'm going to cite the sources I got the information from. (Full disclosure - I purchased a Blackwell Publishing account to get medical journal information and read about it. Most of what I read said something to the effect of, "This is a bad idea and it's bad for your brain, organs, etc" - OR, "We don't know enough about this drug, so we'll need to do more tests to tell you what happens long term.")

What I'm preaching here is the gospel of doubt - not definite knowledge. What we do know about MDMA is that is has severe and adverse effects sometimes, and not enough is known about the long term effects to say whether MDMA is safe, or not safe. What we do know is people who consume it are more likely to suffer from hyperthermia, and since the events are probably already hot and elevating your heart rate, it is probably not wise to add fuel to the fire.

I am not a doctor. I don't know everything - but I'm willing to trust peer-reviewed medical journals that say MDMA isn't safe, and the long term effects of MDMA are not known, so it's probably not wise to use your body as a test tube for it.

Dismissing my thoughts and saying just bypassed "MDMA is safe" on Google is a detriment to this argument, and has no place in this discussion. My only agenda is to keep young people safe - and if MDMA was safe, I'd probably be okay with it.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine and The US National Institute of Health both have amazing websites with search criteria that will allow you to learn more about MDMA - aside from what you find on Google, since PDF's tend to not aggregate as well.

Sources:
RE: Chemical makeup and overview - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

RE: "Seratonin Syndrome" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

RE: "Repeated Exposure to MDMA" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

RE: "Long term trajectory" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
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This chatter over whether drug "X" is safe or not is completely pointless, there is no such thing as a safe drug (you could find tons of articles on the negative effects of, say, caffeine).
 
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