I'm not a frequent user now, nor could be. Work and family commitments make it hard to find that 2 day gap. I've abused in the past, although amphet was my poison and had the issues so I'm your typical loss of magic guy and your typical set and setting change.
BUT when I came back to MD after a long break and got UK press even with the change of life responsibilities it was pretty much the same experience.
Set and setting has DEFINATELY changed so I take do that into account. Music itself and what people are on. I don't expect it to be the exact same experience. But the pure joy and bliss and loss of ego was there.
In the 90's It used to be a high % of the people in the rave were on MD and usually the same pill, the network in those days was very much word of mouth so one pill in an area was common.
Often you could see the difference of pill available. When Snowballs hit it was actually a very messy affair of monged out come ups. More so when double doves came around. We used to be naive then and blame heroin cuts in double doves for the monge out. But after 1 hr or so after onset the whole place would erupt as people reached plateau and it was amazing.
But what I see as fact when I returned to MD it was very similar, i know they were UK press. I had an experience close to what I had. As always for me tested at least by 5 reagent. Showing PURPLE.
Then I got sucked into the Dutch (marketing I'm a sucker for) and crystal and it reminded me of Snowballs or double doves without the wanting to share the experience or interact, almost like a selfish experience and more egocentric. The monge out continued through the experience rather than started the experience. Showing BLACK
Soon as I re tried UK (Nintendo all stars) it came back again, although they weren't strong and I double dropped.
Back to Dutch back to loss of magic, monged, able to dance but what I call the zombie dance.
I've tried dropping 1/2 in case it's MG issue but 1/2 gets me nowhere close to a breakthrough and I get hints of an experience. 3/4 some experience but still none of the euphoria and empathy of the U.K. tried.
So now I've got access to supposed UK it's gonna be very interesting. Showing PURPLE but changing black quicker than other UK I've had.
In case you haven't gathered I'm one of those guys that if you tell me the sky is blue I'll ask you how you know that. ? And I'm also stupid apparently according to other BL's so read what you want.
I'm signing out now and going back to lurking. Spending way to much time here
Good luck everyone and hope you find the magic. Love you all.