for sure be ever sceptical.. but..
if similar looking pills were falling into my hands from the same source, i assume that the manufacturer, large buyer, transporter, local distributor, all have a solid network in place and can repeat the process over and over again.
from last year...the green and orange ? marks, followed by the orange and pink chanels, i am fairly certain (in my mind) came from the same cook. the quality in those pills created a new benchmark for me in cleanliness and euphoria.
i think time is your biggest variable here. ive always imagined the big wigs of international drug distribution to be constantly changing. ive always picture it as a "get in, make big bucks, get out.." type of racket. itd just be too fucking dangerous to stick around for too long.
so one dude runs the show for a couple of months. then he passes it to an associate who has different business ideas. he might be greedier and put less MD in each pill. but he's using the same ingredients, machines, and distribution networks as the last guy. hence movements in quality in similar lookin pills.
then the whole shop gets busted. cops confiscate the machines, but through a corrupt leak the machines end up in the hands of a whole different bunch of dudes. they source their chemmies from different places. their chemical reactions may differ slightly or hugely from the original. but the pills are coming out of the same presses so they look the same. with maybe only a whole different colour scheme.. the new dudes fancied natural earth colours perhaps
my mind continues to wander...
tony
[ 09 March 2002: Message edited by: fat tony ]