How could they possibly be selling the pills for ** each? I'm not doubting u I'm just amazed that it would be that cheap. U figure the pressesrs aren't the chemist so they have to buy the mdma from somewhere. How cheap can they possibly be buying the mdma if u figure some Dutch pills have 200mg in em at ** a pill there getting a gram for like ** and how can I get in contact w the person selling it so cheap? Haha
Hello yanker valid points. I had a brief look over my calculations again and realised I forgot to allow for the weight of the filler in the pills.
Assuming an average pill is 250mG then the price would be more like 1kG ** for 4000 pills. This would be more like ** per pill.
As to how accurate this is I dont know.
Anyway the point really is to illustrate with some pretty crude chemistry setup and fairly decent pill press you can be knocking out in excess of 170,000 pills per hour.
With the correct distribution network the returns are beyond belief. If you value your freedom of course!!
The lab above is from Canada. This particular lab is producing MDMA as well as manufacturing pills. Once the pill quantity hits this kind of industrial level number of pills becomes irrelevant and it is weight that is the valuation of choice. Clearly this is for reasons of practicality. It would be totally impractical to count out a 1kG of pills each time you do a deal on this scale.
Here is a video of an industrial sized pill press in action they cost approx £20,000 / $32,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX2-1U9yv04
The featured lab in the thread is relatively unusual compared to the more common practice of a "pill lab". This is just basically a mixing, drying and pressing facility. Very often built in kitchens and underground basements. The MDMA is smuggled to these labs via post or courier in fused crystal format. The crystal is weighed out, filler and binder is added, mixed dried and pressed.
This is infact meth but illustrates what a fused block of crystal looks like. This is often how MDMA is smuggled. You may have heard the term "Moon Rock" this is not a single giant MDMA crystal as street dealers might have you beleive but a fusing of smaller salt crystals. Fusing is achieved by bringing the crystals to their melting point and compressing into blocks.
Another method for MDMA smuggling is in MDMA Freebase (liquid) format. The liquid MDMA is dissolved in a polar solvent such as Xylene and smuggled in chemical barrels similiar to above. The freebase could be one in a thousand barrels and easily slips through the customs watchful eye. Once the freebase arrives in the relevant country it is converted to a salt and moved on.
Smaller scale tablet processing lab located in Australia. The shallow trays in front of the fan are the completed mixed product with drug/filler/dye/flouers and binder. Once dried adequately the mixture is poured into the pill press. There are various methods of producing these tablet mixes.
Two pill presses in tabletting lab.
Close up of Ecstasy tablet Press. Mixed product is fed into the funnel.
The machine spins and spits out Ecstasy Tablets.
These tablet machines can produce approximately 6000 tablets per hour.
They cost approximately £1200 / $1920
How a green triangular Mitsibishi is mixed and made :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0ihFluFKM&feature=channel&list=UL