are moaning in desperate search of MDMA like the one they had last summer.
I actually love that you mention this.
Because instead of Todays MDMA vs 90's MDMA. it reads Todays MDMA vs last summers MDMA.
It doesn't prove anything ofc, but implies to me that some people are trying to recreate a memory or a group of memories that just may not be possible anymore because now... it's
this summer, and we're different people in different situations with different lives. Unless there's some huge disruption in the supply chain of precursor molecules that I didn't hear about (guess what there hasn't been, same PMK Ethyl Glycidate is still being produced in china and if its not sent to the USA, its sent to places like canada where they process it and bring it into the USA in literal pallets.
Really seems to me like people are chasing a memory instead of a molecule.
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I'm not sure if current readers are aware of my past or my many previous posts in this thread where I provided actual Lab reports of super high quality MDMA, but I'll catch anyone up who hasn't been part of this thread for months/years. I used to work at a testing facility, equipped with HPLC, GCMS, polarimeter etc and I've personally tested hundreds of samples of MDMA, MDA, ketamine, cocaine, 2C's, Mescaline, all sorts of tryptamines etc. This an exaggeration but if you name it (aside from fentanyl/opiods or lysergamides) I've probably tested it.
Scroll back through a hundred pages of theory/conjecture/rambling bs, and youll find a dozen or so GC/MS chromatograms with single peaks and calculated purity of +99.5% up to 99.9%. If an impurity was found it was almost always piperonyl methyl ketone, which is the standard (inactive) precursor for making MDMA, whether its made from safrole or the more recent PMK glycidates/glycidic acid which have been the standard precursor since circa 2010 area. There's some new acetyl yada yada precursor that's designed to get around current control laws, but I'd bet you money that it probably still proceeds via PMK. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Please.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Youll also see a few chromatograms that have multiple peaks, Always a major peak and a blip. If you check the spectral data of each of the different peaks, they give the exact same chemical fingerprint so to speak. This is implying presence of hydrated forms of MDMA, but it's still MDMA, and it still interacts with receptors in the exact same way. They form different peaks because the hydrated form which has a weak bond to a water molecule has a slightly different mass and a slightly different boiling point, so they vaporize at very slightly different temperatures. Which makes sense as a more massive molecule might require more energy to phase change into a gaseous state. But in the brain, they're both MDMA. It doesn't matter what salt form or if it's a hydrate or a polymorph. Those things affect pharmacodynamics like bioavailability and distribution, but they do not affect how the MDMA interacts with receptor systems. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier, they'll all MDMA. They don't affect pharmakinetics either which is how the body transforms the drug. Youre still going to excrete the same metabolites. I
I'd like to say regarding hydrates which are often seen as potential reasons for MehDMA, a simple test for any chemist that can form a salt, simply take your MDMA, turn it back into a freebase. And then turn it back into the HCL salt by 2 different methods. One being using aqueous HCL, which seems to be the way vast majority of people do it as its easier/safer which creates hydrated forms, and then try it with a 2nd method by dissolving the freebase into anhydrous acetone and then salting with anhydrous HCL as a gas (easily made by dripping sulfuric acid on to sodium chloride and running gas through dessicant like CaCl2. The anhydrous method will not produce hydrates. Take it fresh before it can form hydrates from moisture in the air and compare it to the MDMA made using aqueous HCL. That'd be a really good way that we can end the conversation on hydrated forms vs anhydrous. I'm personally not going to do it because it's illegal and I don't think it would change a damn thing about peoples opinions here. Obviously I'd do it wrong or I've never taken good MDMA from the 90s so I can't be a good judge of quality.
Point is there is still plenty of good MDMA out there, and at least from what I have seen, the vast majority of it is decent quality. I may be spoiled in what is accessible to me, but I'd like to think after hundreds of MDMA analyses specifically, that I'd see something very off about one.
Note that I'm not saying bad or contaminated or adulterated MDMA doesn't exist. I'm sure it does, but then... its not really just MDMA, and shouldn't be compared to MDMA. I'm not speaking out of conjecture, I base my beliefs on hard data.
What has upset me about this thread and why you can likely hear the tone of frustration in my words, is because whenever I have posted hard data, technical reports or chromatograms, I hear either crickets, or statements such as my machine is malfunctioning or I'm not reading the data right, or my machines is simply incapable of detecting these magical impurities that vastly affect the experience. These magical impurities can only be detected with Nuclear magnetic Resonance spectroscopy which is way beyond the reach of most facilities not tied to universities or pharmaceutical corportations. Feel free to waste your money at Kykeon, though I'd love to hear what they have to say.
I am currently setting up something called Ultra High Pressure/Performance Liquid Chromatography Quadropole Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometer otherwise simplified as a UHPLC-Q/TOF-MS. I can't wait to get it up and running so I can present hard date with even more accuracy just to be ignored again.
I really don't want to expose myself anymore than I have already, but something I've never stated until right now, is that I actually am in contact with some of original people who were involved in both the distribution of the 90's Dallas ecstasy that everyone raves about as well as the underground therapy movement that was blossoming at the time. The therapists hate or strongly discouraged people like Michael Clegg (distributor) who certainly hastened its eventual scheduling as an illegal controlled substance. What I'm getting at, is I never heard from of any of these people that MDMA today is any different than it was back then. I only hear that on the internet. And my own analyses tend to agree that good MDMA is still very available.
I can't speak for UK scene as I wasn't around then and I don't know anyone from that era.
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Sorry. Rant Over