Depends of what you mean by researcher. To solve a mystery is always nice. I'd love to have someone do the necessary job and find an explanation to this MehDMA phenomena. The effects are so distinctly different, and something is causing it. Weather it's a contaminant, or my old favorite conspiracy theory, that MehDMA actually is a regioisomer of MDMA. And from what I understand as a person not educated in chemistry, only Two-Dimensional NMR (HSQC, COSY) could detect that. But how many have access to that and how many samples have been analyzed with that method? And even when/if i find real stuff, I - and many with me - surely would like to know what exactly they've been eating.
Please enlighten me as to what exactly needs to be done to rule out contamination and regioisomers. Time, knowldedge, column chromatography and access to two-dimensional NMR?
You're missing the point. How could anyone possibly test pills/powder from the past? W/o a time machine, that won't happen. As has been stated: there are a lot of possible explanations, and different people could be calling multiple different phenomena "meh-DMA." Sure,
maybe it's a regioisomer of MDMA, or maybe it's a particular impurity, like 3,4-dimethoxy-n-methylamphetamine or MDDMA/MDTMA. Any number of plausible reasons could be accurate, and it's likely not just one.
In other words, we'll never get a single answer to what you're looking for bc the target is not clear. There's too much subjectivity and not enough consistent and collected evidence to pin anything down. You're chasing something untenable looking for an answer you cannot find to a question whose evidence is buried in the past and too scattered to piece together. There will always be educated guesses, as this thread attests, but I'm sorry to say: you will not find a concise, perfectly fitting answer to this.
The main things are: pills and powder can be bunk or can be comprised of imposter drugs, impurities, and/or poorly manufactured chemicals that were supposed to be MDMA, but for whatever reason, missed the mark. There's literally dozens of viable ways for a clandestine chemist to attempt to manufacture MDMA. It isn't like there are multiple consistent samples of a drug out there sold as MDMA but actually containing just this ONE chemical that consistently causes "mehDMA" responses as much as you and others wish there were.
There are multiple things that can cause this response, and no realistic way to narrow it down or to include examples from the past. Every claim is disputable and open to subjective interpretation. So even when you find some pure MDMA, finally believe me and give up the ridiculous notion that, somehow, ALL MDMA must be bad now, and you're left wondering "what exactly" you were taking before… there's no
for sure way to know what you were ingesting. There's not enough reason and no incentive for someone or some company to spend the resources on discovering possible answers to your question because it's next to impossible to be precise here, and there's nothing to gain from such an endeavor, despite how strongly ppl in this thread want to know. I know that answer does not satisfy your curiosity, but some things in life will always be a mystery. I'm okay with that. Maybe you can be, too. You'll feel better once you find some real MDMA, I'd bet!
