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What is wrong with the MDMA available today? - v2

In the 90', there were occasionally some pressed pills where something else was mixed in (MDA would be my guess)
This is from the Sassafras oil days and maybe more of an American thing but the chemists figured they could A/B leftover distilled Sassafras and the resulting alkaloids were nicknamed "sass". Most people assume that's just some colloquial slang for MDA. Sassafras has a fair few interesting alkaloids.
 
I recently got some tested MDMA crystal (more like off-white rocks) after years of not being able to find any. Did it on two separate occasions w my gf. 1st time we each did a .18 and we were both quite underwhelmed. Three months later we did a .28 due to suspected low potency. We rolled but it was still not what I remember MDMA being when I first dabbled in it back in the day.. no overwhelming euphoria or ‘wow factor’ no crazy tactile enhancement, music just sounded a bit better. it was just alright. Very mild eye wiggles and some jaw clenching. Next time I’m thinking about upping the dose to a .35 or possibly higher to achieve desired effects. Anybody have any input here? For what it’s worth the substance itself did feel extremely clean and we both experienced the same effects off identical doses. No harsh comedowns, pretty smooth come ups, and no depression in the following days.
 
I recently got some tested MDMA crystal (more like off-white rocks) after years of not being able to find any. Did it on two separate occasions w my gf. 1st time we each did a .18 and we were both quite underwhelmed. Three months later we did a .28 due to suspected low potency. We rolled but it was still not what I remember MDMA being when I first dabbled in it back in the day.. no overwhelming euphoria or ‘wow factor’ no crazy tactile enhancement, music just sounded a bit better. it was just alright. Very mild eye wiggles and some jaw clenching. Next time I’m thinking about upping the dose to a .35 or possibly higher to achieve desired effects. Anybody have any input here? For what it’s worth the substance itself did feel extremely clean and we both experienced the same effects off identical doses. No harsh comedowns, pretty smooth come ups, and no depression in the following days.
Sounds just like what's been called MehDMA in this thread; and what's this thread is about.
 
Sounds just like what's been called MehDMA in this thread; and what's this thread is about.
Well yes lol. I guess what I was getting at in a nutshell is should I just take more to get the desired roll?

And it also puzzles me how it can feel so damn clean.. I don’t have that many rolls under my belt but next to some sass mdma crystal I had for my first time back in 14 this feels just as clean
 
Haven't read all this (or even the first post) but I haven't rolled in 6+ years and the wife and I took some tonight and I've blasted off with .160 Reminiscent of some of the best rolls I've ever had.

I had previously run into the feeling of lost magic but I guess a nice long reset with some living in between does wonders
 
All the research focused on chemical properties, that may explain the occurrence in physiological effects in some users, is all very interesting and equally plausible, but does ignore the condition of the brains neurotransmitter actions in response to each drug.

Having access to lots of pressed pills in highschool, we certainly overindulged. I always enjoyed them, some were absolutely different than other pressed pills. I didn't mind the occasional MA contamination.

Once crystalized molly became common I quickly thought that this was maybe some research chemical similar to mdma, but a reagent test cross verified the presence of MDMA. I knew something was off.
I certainly got floored with heavy eye wiggles, but no connection with others or desire to be active - typically just floored, laying down on my couch. Maybe some music playing.

I've never experienced what I remember as good ecstacy when using crystal molly.
 
I've never experienced what I remember as good ecstacy when using crystal molly.
Maybe good ecstacy to you is MA tainted ecstacy? Nothing wrong with that I know many who prefer that extra stimulation.

From my own experience I've had many energetic, "connecting", experiences on crystal mdma, often accompanied by a weightless / floating / feeling. Maybe it's dose dependant or maybe there are other adulterants. Eye wiggles are usually a sign I've gone too far.
 
Remember when you could Google things like: Dextroamphetamine + MDMA without getting a whole search result page of recovery houses and a suicide hotline number at the top?
Though I take your meaning, I just Googled that to see what comes up, and it wasn't recovery places. It was all science journals. Shrugs. Yeah idk. It is annoying though when any mention of drugs garners a mini-lecture and paperwork for addiction recovery. It's insulting, really, so I feel you on this.

I've always considered [MDMA cut with MA] as being a likely possiblity. I prefer MA over MDMA today.
Yeah it's smoother, less commitment, less impairing, doesn't screw up my short-term memory, and less obvious I'm on something… It's not for everyone though.

Seems unnecessarily high. You might have found actual mythical MehDMA.
Or they found something cut to hell so much that it takes .35 g total to net the proper amount of MDMA hydrochloride. New hypothesis: MDMmeh is really mostly caffeine plus a little MDMA… So it tests correctly and provides a slight rolling feeling, but is otherwise anxious and unpleasant feeling like taking too much caffeine. And we already know that caffeine is often cut into MDMA due to its ability to potentiate MDMA's good (and bad) effects, so it makes sense… So say for every 100 mg of the composite powder, only 28 mg of it is MDMA while the other 72 mg is caffeine. If someone took 350 mg of that particular blend, they would be taking 98 mg of MDMA along with 252 mg of caffeine… sounds like an unpleasant, mostly sober time that pales in comparison to taking, say, ~180 mg of high quality MDMA hydrochloride, you know, obviously…

but next to some sass mdma crystal I had for my first time back in 14
Just FYI: I mostly hear people reserve the term "sass" for MDA. It sorta doesn't make sense considering how MDMA and MDA can both be produced using sassafras oil as the starting point. Regardless, back in the day, the three sisters were: Molly (MDMA), Sassy (MDA), and Tina (MA). And TBH, the best roll in my opinion is ~90 mg 5-APB. Less hangover effect the next day bc it has exactly half the number of oxygen atoms, which are left behind as free radicals in the brain after MDMA is removed by monoamine oxidase.
 
Though I take your meaning, I just Googled that to see what comes up, and it wasn't recovery places. It was all science journals. Shrugs. Yeah idk. It is annoying though when any mention of drugs garners a mini-lecture and paperwork for addiction recovery. It's insulting, really, so I feel you on this.


Yeah it's smoother, less commitment, less impairing, doesn't screw up my short-term memory, and less obvious I'm on something… It's not for everyone though.


Or they found something cut to hell so much that it takes .35 g total to net the proper amount of MDMA hydrochloride. New hypothesis: MDMmeh is really mostly caffeine plus a little MDMA… So it tests correctly and provides a slight rolling feeling, but is otherwise anxious and unpleasant feeling like taking too much caffeine. And we already know that caffeine is often cut into MDMA due to its ability to potentiate MDMA's good (and bad) effects, so it makes sense… So say for every 100 mg of the composite powder, only 28 mg of it is MDMA while the other 72 mg is caffeine. If someone took 350 mg of that particular blend, they would be taking 98 mg of MDMA along with 252 mg of caffeine… sounds like an unpleasant, mostly sober time that pales in comparison to taking, say, ~180 mg of high quality MDMA hydrochloride, you know, obviously…


Just FYI: I mostly hear people reserve the term "sass" for MDA. It sorta doesn't make sense considering how MDMA and MDA can both be produced using sassafras oil as the starting point. Regardless, back in the day, the three sisters were: Molly (MDMA), Sassy (MDA), and Tina (MA). And TBH, the best roll in my opinion is ~90 mg 5-APB. Less hangover effect the next day bc it has exactly half the number of oxygen atoms, which are left behind as free radicals in the brain after MDMA is removed by monoamine oxidase.
Please don't stop replying to this thread. You write incredibly well, and I really enjoy reading your replies. You have a gift. You're doing God's work informing people that MDMA is still just as good as it has always been.

StakeMoody's report is odd. I do wonder if it’s being stepped on... Who knows? It’s so cheap and plentiful that there’s really no reason for it to be cut, but who knows how many hands the product he has has passed through. Have both he and his girlfriend lost the magic in the past?

If I took 350mg of the MDMA that I have, oh boy, I don’t think it would end well. And I like rolling/empathogens a little too much... 125–150mg is plenty for me to roll face.

So, about that 5-APB... I have 1g of the potent Chinese batch lying around, and it's been over three months since my last roll. I really want to do it for my next roll. I have 5-MAPB, 6-APB (which I haven't tried yet and is very impure based on the results from the lab I sent it to), MDMA, and MDA.

How similar is it to MDA? Because, fuck, I love MDA. 5-APB is not talked about nearly enough, considering how long it's been around... 5-MAPB being N-demethylated into 5-APB toward the tail end of the roll was quite enjoyable... I bet 5-APB is bananas on its own.

Also, if I remember correctly, you said you were synthesizing MDE in the early 2000s. How was it? I've read reports about it, and it seems to pair well with MDMA/MDA. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever get to experience it unless a bored MDMA chemist decides to "waste" some precursors on a less desirable product. But then again, weirder things have happened ;-)

Do tell, if you have the time. This message is fueled by 2-MMC. Stay safe.
 
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I mostly hear people reserve the term "sass" for MDA. It sorta doesn't make sense considering how MDMA and MDA can both be produced using sassafras oil as the starting point.

The other context for the name Sass:
lysurgeon said:
My only experiences with "sassafras" has been alkaloids extracted from the sassafras root. Some time ago, the chemists doing the MDMA syntheses realized they could do an A/B/NP extraction from the leftover juice in their steam stills to produce an alkaloid extract with similar but much less intense effects as MDMA.

I have written about this material several times and generally been met with disbelief. Everyone thinks that the drug myths they've always believed ever since they were kids is true, and the idea that Sass=MDA is one of them. I have personally extracted and consumed this material, and I have received the identical material from others who have extracted it, and yes they called it Sassafras, because that's the plant it's extracted from.

The chemical proposed to be responsible for the effects of sassafras alkaloid extracts is cinnamolaurine. You can look it up, there's a wealth of info about it, although there is not a wealth on its pharmacology. I performed an experiment where I extracted alkaloids from two different species of cinnamon (which according to much literature, contains cinnamolaurine). The effects of these extracts were very similar to sassafras alkaloids. The differences can be explained by the different alkaloid profiles in each plant. (source)

Identification of Sassafras albidum alkaloids by HPTLC/DESI-MS and mapping by DESI-MS

Sassafras albidum is an important tree species that occurs across North America. The presence of benzylisoquinoline and aporphine alkaloids has been previously described
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A total of 12 alkaloids were indentified in the roots and twigs, and six of them were detected for the first time in S.albidum. ...five aporphines and seven benzylisoquinolines.
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All alkaloids seem to accumulate more in the outer layers of Sassafrass albidum roots
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Coclaurine, N-methyl coclaurine, and armepavine...are described here for the first time in the genus sassafras. ...found in the roots: norcinnamolaurine, cinnamolaurine, boldine, reticuline.
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The two alkaloids with a methylenedioxy group identified in this work: norcinnamolaurine and cinnamolaurine (source)

Cinnamolaurine:
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Though I take your meaning, I just Googled that to see what comes up, and it wasn't recovery places. It was all science journals. Shrugs. Yeah idk. It is annoying though when any mention of drugs garners a mini-lecture and paperwork for addiction recovery. It's insulting, really, so I feel you on this.
Odd, I did just put it in again and got slightly different results but still 3 out of 9 results on first page were treatment centers and almost all results were negative slanted. Top result was a medical journal comparing effects of LSD, MDMA, D-amp but only taken separately.

In any case the night I first googled it the results were different. Unsure if that is due to algorithms or location or what but, I was not being hyperbolic
 
Please don't stop replying to this thread. You write incredibly well, and I really enjoy reading your replies. You have a gift. You're doing God's work informing people that MDMA is still just as good as it has always been.
I appreciate that a lot. Thank you for noticing and for the kind words.

StakeMoody's report is odd. I do wonder if it’s being stepped on... Who knows?
No one without access to reliable analytics and interpreting the results correctly.

It’s so cheap and plentiful that there’s really no reason for it to be cut,
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.

If I took 350mg of the MDMA that I have, oh boy, I don’t think it would end well.
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…

And I like rolling/empathogens a little too much... 125–150mg is plenty for me to roll face.
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.

So, about that 5-APB... I have 1g of the potent Chinese batch lying around, and it's been over three months since my last roll. I really want to do it for my next roll. I have 5-MAPB, 6-APB (which I haven't tried yet and is very impure based on the results from the lab I sent it to), MDMA, and MDA.
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).

How similar is it to MDA?
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.

Because, fuck, I love MDA. 5-APB is not talked about nearly enough, considering how long it's been around... 5-MAPB being N-demethylated into 5-APB toward the tail end of the roll was quite enjoyable... I bet 5-APB is bananas on its own.
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

Also, if I remember correctly, you said you were synthesizing MDE in the early 2000s.
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

How was it? I've read reports about it, and it seems to pair well with MDMA/MDA. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever get to experience it unless a bored MDMA chemist decides to "waste" some precursors on a less desirable product. But then again, weirder things have happened ;-)
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.

Do tell, if you have the time. This message is fueled by 2-MMC. Stay safe.
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?
 
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The other context for the name Sass:
Fair enough, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I'm just saying that many people refer to MDMA as "molly" (or "mandy" in the U.K.) and MDA as "sassy". I find what you're saying interesting lore, and I'm open to this idea if anyone has any more evidence to back this up or anecdotal experiential claims to share that deal directly either with this method of production, or even better: if someone has some real analytics (GC-MS, LC-MS, FTIR or NMR) and/or studies on this subject.

I agree with DMT Nexus user, Coja, on that thread who commented:
"sass" is indeed a slang term for MDA. While I've only ever encountered white crystal MDA, I have encountered MDMA crystal with a slight brown tint and a sassafrass/spicy odor to it that was called "sass" and suspected to be MDA. The biggest difference between MDA and MDMA is the duration, with MDA lasting a fair bit longer and having somewhat more of a psychedelic component to it than MDMA does.

This is just another of those instances where slang really isn't helpful. However, I have heard the whole organic/natural label slapped on "sass" which is no more organic or natural than synthesized MDMA which can also be started from naturally sourced essential oils.

Indeed mixing MDMA + MDA is a super intense roll.

I wonder how active cinnamolaurine is on its own, if at all. So was the proposal that it was being converted into something psychoactive? If so, what? Or is it psychoactive on its own?

There's a real botanical fact here followed by a large pharmacological leap. Research confirms that Sassafras albidum roots contain cinnamolaurine and several other alkaloids, so extracting an alkaloid fraction from leftover stillage is chemically plausible. But no published evidence establishes that cinnamolaurine is psychoactive in humans, produces MDMA-like effects, or was responsible for that person's experience. The cinnamon comparison doesn't prove causation either. I can't dismiss the claim entirely, but I also can't support it beyond being an intriguing anecdote. It's not conclusive evidence that "sass" contains cinnamolaurine. And since "sass" is inconsistent street slang for MDA, MDMA, or supposedly sassafras-derived material, only proper instrumental analysis could identify what a sample actually contains.

Odd, I did just put it in again and got slightly different results but still 3 out of 9 results on first page were treatment centers and almost all results were negative slanted. Top result was a medical journal comparing effects of LSD, MDMA, D-amp but only taken separately.
It may indeed be based on your previous Google searches and whatever data Google has picked up about you. They listen through devices, and store personal data and details about us constantly, you know… It's creepy.

In any case the night I first googled it the results were different. Unsure if that is due to algorithms or location or what but, I was not being hyperbolic
Oh I totally believe you and wasn't saying you were employing hyperbole there at all. I'm suggesting that it was algorithmically based. Open up a private browser tab perhaps in a different web browser and try a Google search again, see if that changes the results. You could also compare those results against a Duck Duck Go search to see if, and how, that differs as well.
 
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?
Of course, sorry in advance, I am way too lazy to add multi-quotes to my reply... Do not feel inclined to reply to everything ;-)

The only other thing I could think of that might explain why he's not getting the full experience is that both he and his girlfriend have abused SRAs in the past. You know the rest, but I find this to be very unlikely...

Of course, I mean, I have never bought drugs IRL besides weed in high school and cocaine once. I'm sure you know this, but the prices online are so damn cheap. I "researched" the best vendor for MDMA and picked up a half oz for practically nothing at all. I'm sure people would have paid the same price for 3.5g IRL... I have always imagined that MDMA is being produced in only a few superlabs in Europe or Canada, but then again, they have to offload that product to people who will sell it and then sell it to others. It's never-ending... MDA also seems to be quite hard to come by. I paid twice the price for 7g of MDA. I just imagine that large-scale, clandestine, Hive-esque chemistry is long gone.

I think I'd survive it too, but oh man, I've taken 200mg before and I was fucking demolished. The nonlinear dose-response curve is quite interesting with MDMA. You go from being able to dance to "holy fuck, I literally cannot move nor want to move."

This is perfect. I miss the sassiness that MDA provided me compared to its little sister. I was told by the vendor that 80mg had him floored and that 55-60mg is the sweet spot. Funny how these batches vary quite extensively with the benzofurans. I'll whip out my 5-APB for my next roll, that's for sure. It's a damn shame how it's not reported on enough, even though it's been around for just as long as the others..?

I'd like to believe that makes enough sense to me to understand what you said, lol. You see, I found 5-MAPB to be even more magical than MDMA. Obviously, it lacks all of the stimulation, but going back to baseline was much smoother IME. MDMA, to me, goes from 0-100 within 30 minutes on an empty stomach. I'm bombed for maybe 3.5 hours at most if I'm lucky, then it's just over. With 5-MAPB, I was much more content when it ended. Perhaps the feeling even got old, if that makes sense...

Ty for this. I am 100% convinced to try 5-APB for my next roll.

I wonder about that too... I always assumed that was what the ~10% figure represented for MDMA. I never bothered looking into 5-MAPB, but I can say from experience that it became much trippier toward the tail end. Think MDA-like hallucinations/visuals, and it was actually speedy.

Okay, I am not going to even pretend to understand this, even from skimming through Total Synthesis I and II, browsing archives from The Hive, or listening to Hamilton Morris' podcast with MethylMan... I hope to one day understand all of what you said...

That's a damn shame that it sounds just incredibly disappointing. I guess the Erowid reports that I have read weren't lying. I'd still 100% pick some up if I saw it for sale, though...

As for 2-MMC, I think it's the best methcathinone. Although, I have not tried 3-MMC, 4-MMC to me felt like diet-MDMA that I could "safely" redose more and do more often with little to no consequence, but I still felt like shit the days after... Lackluster..? Ehhh, I think it's just the perfect amount of release of 5-HT, DA, and NE. I have only tried it orally on three occasions so far. The first time I consumed ~800mg (125+125+125+125+125+125+50) over the course of maybe 8 hours. The second time, I only consumed ~280mg (150+130). The last time, when I wrote that semi-tweaked-out message, I took ~610mg (220+260+130). All of these were orally, of course. It's decently rolly for ~2 hours, and I noticed that once you start redosing more than once, it becomes speedier. I found that the last time it was significantly rollier, probably because I took 2x the "recommended" dose.

I've never enjoyed cocaine. It has been well over 2 years since I last did it, and I did not enjoy it at all, so no... I find it to be a lot more empathogenic and rollier. I'm only doing it because I figured it's a good SRA alternative. The best thing that I've experienced with it as well is that the "hangover" is practically nonexistent.

Actually, I did get the bright idea to snort 55mg of it on a work night, so I have tried it on four occasions now. That was a horrible experience. It was beyond amph-like. Felt like I took ~20-30mg of (meth)amphetamine for maybe an hour and a half. There was absolutely zero music enhancement or empathy there. Funny how bypassing first-pass metabolism really makes that much of a difference.

Cathinones, MDxx, and x-APBs are the only stimulants that I actually enjoy. I find them to be quite anxiolytic. I will say it is speedy, but also flooring at the same time. This past weekend, and the weekends before too, I was on the rooftop of my apartment looking out over the Hudson, feet kicked up on a chair, headphones on blasting DnB, moving my head back and forth, grinding my teeth, eyes closed. I'm sure the people who went up there got a kick out of me. Then, a few hours later, I was yapping on Discord and pacing around my apartment.

Speedy? Sorta. I would never do any of what I described on (meth)amphetamine or cocaine. To me, it's a decent alternative for SRAs with little to no aftermath. Would I spend the amount of money that a European could get 50 grams of it for again? Maybe, but I am certainly looking forward to the rest of this quarter ounce. (I am not sponsored by big 2-MMC, I just adore empathy and music enhancement...) Also, like rolling, this feeling gets old for me after ~6 hours. You can only listen to so much DnB...
 
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