Growing up in the '90s rave culture, it was very rare back then to see MDMA outside of pill presses...but most of the pill presses were pretty damn good....maybe 1 out of 4 pills were garbage, but you knew what to avoid....We never tested it, so I don't really know how much we were taking...My guess, most of them were 100-200mgs, and there were lots of people that took 2-4 pills in a night, in whatever combo or sequence....
"ecstasy" has always been flukey with who it kills....Yeah, it's pretty safe unless you take a ridiculous dose, MOST of the time....but it always seems that some random user who's very experienced with it dies now and again....
I hate to mention this...I didn't know him, but didn't "Flipping Top" die from MDMA...He didn't seem like an amateur to me....
IDK....MDMA on it's own may be fairly safe if you know the dose, and are sure that it is "MDMA"...but I think it's a strange drug in that, if you mix it with a moderate dose of the wrong thing, it can become dangerous....dehydration...It's a unique drug...
Now, crystal meth...which is definitely at least in the same family...If a novice bombed .5 Gs of pure meth...you might not die, but you would be all kinds of fucked up....150+ plus, rubbery legs, sweating, possible psychosis...add just about anything else on top of that...and yeah...your CNS or your heart may just get overloaded and you die...