I appreciate that a lot. Thank you for noticing and for the kind words.
No one without access to reliable analytics and interpreting the results correctly.
You would think, right? But the reality is that there isn't just one global supplier. Illicit drugs move through particular routes, none of which have full global reach. Due to the criminal nature of drug smuggling and trafficking (brought on by unnecessary drug prohibition laws, I might add) certain places might from time to time get saddled with some imposter MDMA or some poorly synthesized attempt at MDMA… and I've seen fake pills and bullshit imposter-MDMA research chemicals sold as "MDMA"… but that was many years ago. It's all been like you said: "cheap and plentiful"… for a while now.
Hell no, there's no way I would do that. I'm sure I would survive it, but I would be too fucked up, short-term short-circuited for a while, and I'd pay for it over the course of the next couple days…
I think I prefer something like 155 - 175 mg with a ~40 - 50 mg booster 1.5 hrs in for full-on recreational use. If I'm using it for a chill setting, maybe a house party or for a more therapeutic session, I go 110 - 125 mg.
Yeah, of the four benzofuran drugs, which I've compared, 5-APB is the most euphoric. It lasts longer than MDMA, too and comes and goes in strong waves. Personally, I've found there's a steep incline in potency from 80 mg (a moderate roll) to 100 mg (rolling
hardAF).
Pretty similar, but also kind of its own thing. When n-methylated, the refinement from primary amine to secondary amine is more evident, to me, if that makes any sense. 5-MAPB and 6-MAPB are okay, but not quite the same magic as MDMA, as they're expected to be. Still, great compounds worthy of exploration. They don't suck. And 6-APB is noticeably more like MDA in comparison from 6-MAPB to 6-APB versus MDMA to MDA… However, 5-APB
kicks ass and really stands out and shines within this group, in my humble opinion. When I took ~110 mg, that shit really blew my mind, and I had an awesome time with some friends who were visiting from out of town.
I wonder what percent of MDMA, 5-MAPB and 6MAPB n-demethylates to MDA, 5-APB and 6-APB respectively. I read somewhere that it's a low percent, likely to be between 7% and 15%, tops. I wonder what drives that and if that conversion could be driven higher
in vivo…
Yeah I made a batch of it once, ~92 grams or ~40 hits IIRC. Mostly I did this because this method I was using that converts the intermediary ketone, MDP-2-P, into the final product works such that, in the reaction /
in situ, nitromethane produces methlyamine which then reacts to replace the double-bonded oxygen atom that forms the ketone in a reductive amination. It dawned on me that if nitromethane produces the n-methyl analog of MDA (aka: MDMA), then I could substitute the nitroethane that I already had on hand so it would produce MDE. And sure enough
I just was curious what MDE is like, and it's what I expected: a short-lived, highly refined, less potent roll. It was not gritty at all the way MDMA and especially MDA can be. Come up was ~30 min., typical of MDx drugs, but then the peak lasted ~1 - 1.5 hours before a rapid drop off. It can be re-dosed a bit but requires more to keep rolling, and it never grew to the same peak intensity that MDMA does.
You're not really missing out on much, just TBH.
MDE is weak, overall, though not unpleasant. It doesn't have the magic of MDMA nor the razzle dazzle of MDA. It retains a bit of the empathogenic qualities but less intense, almost no eye saccade movement, and just as you're expecting it to kick into high gear, it just tapers off instead. I can then sorta make it come back a little by smoking weed, but it's not trying to hang around for long. Next day feels clear-headed though, I'll give it that. You could call it MD-Eh
How are you liking that 2-MMC? I thought about trying it, but I haven't read any good reviews for it. People seem to say it's lackluster compared to 3-MMC and 4-MMC. Many ppl think of these drugs as being on a spectrum that sits between cocaine and MDMA with 4-MMC riding closer to MDMA and 3-MMC closer to cocaine. If that's true, my instincts tell me 2-MMC is even closer to that speedy cocaine side than to MDMA. Does that check-out?