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Bluelighter
^^ Awesome post consumer, wow that brings back happy memories.
My first was a green Mitsubishi, August 1999. Beige Apples, Beige Domes, Rolexes followed.
I never had an XO but those were pills people saved for years and wouldn't part with for $100.
In Australia, 2001 to 2005 were the glory years. The Mitsis got stronger, the Durexes and Gaming Console based logos arrived and, as consumer has so appropriately reminded us, the continual floods of incredible Xscore pills, from the HQs to the Lightning Bolts, Hearts, Spades, went on a few years.
It was around this time that I was fortunate enough to be provided with ongoing reliable data as to the precise contents of many of the pills which all of us were then enjoying, many having been qualitatively analyzed by an Australian Government Laboratory should they have been seized by the police during a criminal investigation.
The strongest Mitsi I saw was a green one in about 2004 that had 140mg of MDMA and a little bit of MDEA (which I can assure you of the hundreds of MDXX pills tested, only came up about five times!) The HQs, which destroyed people routinely were anywhere from 110 to 140mg of MDMA. And the strongest pill I ever came across, a yellow panda, which by today's "standards" was a seemingly embarrassing 156mg of MDMA.
As for almost all of the Xscore pills save the HQs, they only ever tested between 110 and 130mg of MDMA, but this was always in conjunction with an unspecified amount of caffeine. In fact back in the day, caffeine was the most common "other drug" found together with the MDMA in quality "Ecstasy" pills; now surely taking caffeine with MDMA can't be the sole reason for these pills being as magical as they undoubtedly were, but maybe it's worth looking into further, as caffeine is virtually never seen in MDMA pills anymore.
I accept this discussion has been done to death and people will continue to steadfastly line up in the various opposing camps, firm and unwavering in their views, but when those of us who have enjoyed the sorts of pills which consumer has displayed above, actually consider their experiences in the context of the "modest" amount of MDMA that these pills actually contained, as compared with the ridiculously massive doses that are now an industry standard; you cannot tell me that the MDMA which was pressed into pills from the glory days, is not in some way different to much of the MDMA being used today.
The memories of those who experienced these "glory" years are of course highly subjective and inevitably influenced by the passage of time; however, the maths is anything but and to put it simply, the figures don't lie.
Those yellow XO's were easily the best pills I and all my friends ever came across. I first had them in Adelaide at a Portishead concert. I was just blown away. I was cashed up at the time and bought 50 for personal use for myself and my wife. We had numerous nights together and with friends and it was uncanny. They would always hit 45 min after dropping and were the most beautiful loved up mdma i have ever had. Then years later when i was living in Byron Bay a mate rang me and said he had these amazing pills. I asked what they were...he said yellow hugs and kisses. I was like wtf and in the car 30 min later with the wifes blessing despite it being our wedding anniversary. I grabbed a fairly large amount of them with the intention of offloading them but in the end imaybe sold a dozen and a few hundred were made personal. We had so many spur of the moment parties on those things. They are legendary amongst the old crew in Byron who got to indulge with us. People still talk about them. I dont doubt people wouldn't part with them for $100.
I think the HQ's were probably the same strength as the rest. I remember a dude called Cookie Monster posting bags with maybe 1000 of each of the varieties on pill reports. No doubt in my mind the mdma back then is different to today.
Glad that post brought back some memories Biscuit. Shame our English friends didn't get to sample the xo's or x press pills