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What is wrong with the MDMA available today? - v2

impossible at least according to my observations because my white MDMA turned purple after recrystalization using at mininum 2oz... the exact same dark purple... Usually the Mid end collecting of the crystals got me that dark purple crystals if I waitied to long to collect. Towards the end it's more brown and came out more like the "Dutch cola" we are use to....

The purple MDMA comes from canada as is, They seem to be the producing it as I do see it coming from any other area in big quantities and there are 2-3 vendors selling it cheap enough. The MDMA is def is still wet on the inside if you break it up you can smell the acetone.. It def is NOT dye or smuggled in wine. it appears after recrystallization that much is certain. Anyways Ive asked on the hive what causes the purple MDMA and I was informed by 2 dfferent people told me it was borohydrie impurities that's the best I got... maybe they are wrong, but it defiantly is impurties and not a dye that appears after recrystalion.

ALL I know is I had white MDMA that turned purple (you could see the white in the picture a few comments ahead) , Bought this dark purple and saw it was coming out similar to what I was recrystallizing and my local peeps have been encountering KG ammount when broken up they smell the acetone still but clear up over time cuz it is filled with like 5-8% solvent . Some rocks even become clear once they have been broken down from the 1KG Chunks they had if given enough time.
how bad is the NaBH4 for your body? does it do anything? i ask cause purple molly is very popular, I'd assume if it was bad for you (worse than pure mdma i guess) it wouldn't catch on as a "brand".

This was not me. I Did ask someone else and they told me the same thing. That the purple colors is caused by borohydrides. Even if they are wrong it is def some impurity.

There is Def dyed MDMA because purple got so much hype, by my source only encountered it once. SO it is few and far between also the dye job looks really umm off once you compare the 2.
 
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how bad is the NaBH4 for your body? does it do anything? i ask cause purple molly is very popular, I'd assume if it was bad for you (worse than pure mdma i guess) it wouldn't catch on as a "brand".

This was not me. I Did ask someone else and they told me the same thing. That the purple colors is caused by borohydrides.


The_Real_SlimShady02
· 1 mo. ago

Not op, but I had the same thing just happen. I made anhydrous acetone, and triple washed it after crushing. I then used ~25ml of anhydrous IPA heated to a boil to dissolve the mdma. I then let the IPA cool to room temp and added 80ml freezer chilled acetone to help precipitate the MD. The final product is a copper acetate colored blue. It was previously purple, which was stripped with the acetone wash from what I could tell.



mycoboy710
Op · 1 mo. ago

DING DING DING DING!!!!! BINGO!! thats what I’m talkin’ bout. Thats more or less the same end process i did. Acetone, and then IPA, and with the IPA, used activated charcoal to bind with impurities. Ran thru buchner funnel with filter disc and neg vacuum. I used a controlled setup to cool my water bath that my pyrex dish was in to gradually decrease the temperature evenly over 24hrs. Came back and moved to freezer for a few hours. And Voila. CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION!

 
Well I would blame potassium permanganate.

Potassium permanganate is a purple crystal. It is also the agent that is used to turn piperine into piperanol.

Because piperine isn't controlled and piperanol is.

There's a great paper on the web that identifies exactly what route cooks used to create their MDMA based on what organic impurities are left behind or what catalysts are left behind like purple potassium permanganate.

It could be residue from (an) iodine reaction(s) that didn't get cleaned out.

Remember iodine is purple.
@shugenja just look at the SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE TECH DATA sheet


Material at about 100 mCi/mmol is slightly pink. As the specific activity increases, the color deepens to a dark purple. Solutions of the material are colorless ...



Sodium borohydride reduction is expected to produce less of a racemic (2S,3R)- and (2R ... and the colour of the solution changed from violet to dark brown.

What am I seeing as I pulled from WHITE MDMA crystal.... violet to dark brown just like I said. or color deepend to a dark purple solution to dark brown COLA over time...

IDK what to say a sodium borohydride might be white but as the specific activity increases, the color deepens to a dark purple I don't know what to say but I 100% suspect it is borohydride causing the purple color... and my white batch that was MEH 100% became fire after it looked like glass...
 
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impossible at least according to my observations because my white MDMA turned purple after recrystalization using at mininum 2oz... the exact same dark purple... and getting a more darker defined crystal pattern Usually the Mid end collecting of the crystals got me that dark purple crystals if I waitied to long to collect. Towards the end it's more brown and came out more like the "Dutch cola" we are use to....

The purple MDMA comes from canada as is, They seem to be the producing it as I do not see it coming from any other area in big quantities and there are 2-3 vendors selling it cheap enough. The MDMA is def is still wet on the inside if you break it up you can smell the acetone.. It def is NOT dye or smuggled in wine. it appears after recrystallization that much is certain. Anyways Ive asked on the hive what causes the purple MDMA and I was informed by 2 dfferent people told me it was borohydrie impurities that's the best I got... maybe they are wrong, but it defiantly is impurties and not a dye that appears after recrystalion.

ALL I know is I had white MDMA that turned purple (you could see the white in the picture a few comments ahead) , Bought this dark purple and saw it was coming out similar to what I was recrystallizing and my local peeps have been encountering KG ammount when broken up they smell the acetone still but clear up over time cuz it is filled with like 5-8% solvent . Some rocks even become clear once they have been broken down from the 1KG Chunks they had if given enough time.
Then it's probably iodine.

Iodine in water isn't purple. It may also be true for some other solvents. It doesn't turn purple until it's exposed to oxygen.

If there's a reducing agent in your solution, even something as simple as vitamin c or another acid, it donates an electron to the iodine and the iodine is colorless in solution.

Once you evaporate the solution, you see the purple.

Another point to consider is that iodine in water that doesn't have a reducing agent looks dark brown.

It could also be an iodo-methylenedioxy-methyl--something, that's a by-product of some weird or not. So weird reaction that wasn't removed properly.

Here is a synthesis for MDMA that uses hydroiotic acid as the cleaving agent:

Starting with:
2,3-dimethoxypropiophenone (2.8g) was refluxed with hydriodic acid (11g) and an equal volume of glacial acetic acid for 6 hr.

To later give 3,4 dihydroxy-phenylacetone. Seems like a place iodine contamination could come into play.
 
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Then it's probably iodine.

Iodine in water isn't purple. It may also be true for some other solvents. It doesn't turn purple until it's exposed to oxygen.

If there's a reducing agent in your solution, even something as simple as vitamin c or another acid, it donates an electron to the iodine and the iodine is colorless in solution.

Once you evaporate the solution, you see the purple.

Another point to consider is that iodine in water that doesn't have a reducing agent looks dark brown.

It could also be an iodo-methylenedioxy-methyl--something, that's a by-product of some weird or not. So weird reaction that wasn't removed properly.

Here is a synthesis for MDMA that uses hydroiotic acid as the cleaving agent:

Starting with:
2,3-dimethoxypropiophenone (2.8g) was refluxed with hydriodic acid (11g) and an equal volume of glacial acetic acid for 6 hr.

To later give 3,4 dihydroxy-phenylacetone. Seems like a place iodine contamination could come into play.
I'm telling you I have had MULTIPLE people tell me it is borohydries on the hive....
I really don't think it's Iodoine is it a possibility sure. But IDK all signs point to borohydries in my eye that become way more apparent once you recrystallize...

I guess I can go on hyperlab.info and ask. They would def know...
 
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I'm telling you I have had MULTIPLE people tell me it is borohydries on the hive....
I really don't think it's Iodoine is it a possibility sure. But IDK all signs point to borohydries in my eye that become way more apparent once you recrystallize...

I guess I can go on hyperlab.info and ask. They would def know...
Well, sodium borohydride should have been removed when you recrystallize it in IPA. Sodium borohydride is dissolved in IPA and since you recrystallized it in IPA by adding hydrochloric acid, then the sodium borohydride should have stayed in solution.

If you didn't recrystallize inside of IPA then maybe you should try it.

If you did it's probably not NaBr04.
 
Well, sodium borohydride should have been removed when you recrystallize it in IPA. Sodium borohydride is dissolved in IPA and since you recrystallized it in IPA by adding hydrochloric acid, then the sodium borohydride should have stayed in solution.

If you didn't recrystallize inside of IPA then maybe you should try it.

If you did it's probably not NaBr04.
They should also distill the freebase but 98% of chemists dont.... Yes most of the purple has been going into IPA/acetone solution that I have had I my first crops... but I'm doing a dH20 recrystalition on the majority of the batch collected the formation and crystal structure just looks so much better then IPA, ETOH or MEOH


Well, sodium borohydride should have been removed when you recrystallize it in IPA.

DING DING DING.. Finally this discussion is finally moving... and making sense for both sides .. Remember my earlier comment? When received from wholesale supplier the "WET" purple MDMA on the inside smells like acetone. That's why it inst being removed in any commercial sense currently ... Because wholesale suppliers are using acetone to recrystallize and not an alcohol and very few people like me will bother with recrystallization. People who I talk to have Kilos and even sending out to Drugs data is pointless because it takes 3-5 weeks and by then an entire kilo is gone.
 
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They should also distille the freebase but 98% of chemists dont.... Yes most of the purple has been going into IPA/acetone solution but Im doing a Dh20 recrystalition on the marioty of the batch collected the formation and crystal structure just looks so much better then IPA, ETOH or MEOH

Yeah well you have to ask yourself: "Do I want it to look pretty or do I want it to not be contaminated with boron, or iodine or potentially both?"
 
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Let me first give you a little background. I'm 51 years old and started doing ecstasy the last year it was legal in 1985. Needless to say the legal ecstasy from the so called "Dallas Group" was nothing short of spectacular. In 1988 I made a connection with someone from the San Francisco area who was in the production field of making MDMA. I have maintained that friendship and connection ever since with only small periods of downtime. The MDMA I get from him is an extremely fine bleach white crystalline powder that is fluffy and lays just like snow. The high from this MDMA takes about 10-15 minutes to take effect and the high is always the same. An extremely smooth come up followed by excessive love and empathy. You will literally melt into the person you're with and sex is out of this world. Touch and feel is heavenly. All you want to do is touch and feel on the person youre with and tell them how beautiful they are and how much you love them etc. There are massive eye wiggles and conversation flows like new born buddas. The come down is just as smooth as the come up. It drops you off just like a feather and sleep comes like a baby. The next day is nothing short of spectacular. You wake up feeling anti-depressed and chatty. You'll want to talk on the phone, visit friends or just drive around and enjoy the day with the top down. It's all I've ever known as an MDMA experience.

Now that brings me to modern day MDMA. There was a period back in the early 2000's when my connection was down and I scored pills from a local guy. They were great and with some very small exceptions, nearly as good as my crystalline powder. But once again I've been forced to score something locally and the stuff is just plain crap. And I mean crap. I've done both the orange Tesla's and the red Supremes. Absolutely awful, but from reading the trip reports on Pillreports, you would have thought they were the best ever. They're actually anything but. I had both of these pills tested on ecstasydata and both came back as pure MDMA.

Both of them took about 30-40 minutes to kick in and when they did, there was a slight feeling of euphoria and empathy that quickly faded and from there on out it was just a fucked up buzz. There were eye wiggles, but I wasn't feeling good when they were happening. I became extremely tired and kind of gacked out. The high from these pills seemed to last forever, maybe just because they sucked so much. I felt like a crackhead on the comedown and the next day felt like a bad MDA hangover. There was no next day afterglow at all. Just a different kind of fucked up than the night before. And that lasted the entire next day. There is a HUGE giveaway that youre doing todays crappy MDMA. Your pupils will not dialate all the way to the very edge like old school ecstasy. With old school ecstasy your pupils consume literally all of the color in your eye with only a microscopic sliver of color left around the outer edge. With modern day ecstasy your pupils will only dialate to slightly beyond normal if at all. Thats a big giveaway youre doing new school MDMA junk.

Before you jump to the assumption that this Le Junk guy is just old, hes done way to much ecstasy over the course of his lifetime and this is just a matter of tolerance, please re-read my post stating that I still have access to old school MDMA that Ive had since the 1980s. So in one hand I have modern day lab tested MDMA crap and in the other hand, old school MDMA heaven. So tolerance is out the window. Moving forward...

My question is this. Is this the best there is out there today? And since both pills tested on ecstasydata as pure MDMA, what is wrong with MDMA production nowdays? Does anyone else feel what I'm talking about here? My setting is pretty much always the same so that's not it. I always hear people talk about the setting as if that's an issue. With the crystalline powder, it doesn't matter where I am, it's always great. But with these Supremes and Teslas, it's just a sub-par, little euphoria, no real love or empathy, fucked up kinda buzz. Let me put it this way, if this was all that was available to me, I'd quit taking MDMA altogether. Terrible!
Yup did my downtown warehouses back in 1990's and good old Blue tanks of you guessed it NO2 and lots of Special K too! Everything you say is so true and it was the shit back then. No to mention amount of heat one would give off even dead of winter time. Music OMG felt like waves of pure energy and empathy and feeling of giving was unimaginable. Also always get the gurning and tingling in the fingers and toes. Pure sign that was the real deal. Well guess it is much like the days of 98 or 102 octane fuel and driving with no seatbelts. Good Ole days and just very happy there are some awesome kids as I call them of OLD SCHOOL XTC. My favorites are Sister 4 -MEC and Brother 4 -MMC and well Im gurning on whole NEW REAL Drug that makes pure Ready Rock yeah one not ever cut or even TINA Crytal shards pale in comparison. One blast off brand spanking new glass bong and OMG like a Hercules Nike Missle launching in your head and body and extremely extremely addictive . So worried I really don't want to detail the perfect process and such because people cave to inner desires even strongest and this is real or maybe im rolling through self hypnosis LOL? But yeah fond memories of SAT AND SUN even come down on Mondays. 🥳🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
 
There is something really unique with a PROPERLY pressed bean with MDMA. Sadly making MDMA and Pressing it is honestly just as hard reading how it's ment to be done.
"really unique" should read "sadly rare" instead, but yes I totally agree. Properly pressing tablets is difficult and tricky in a clandestine setting.

why anhydrous acetone but not anhydrous IPA? seems counterproductive
Apologies, I meant for both IPA and acetone to be anhydrous, of course. One is just the ketone of the other, after all, and it's a simple matter of salting them to an anhydrous state. Didn't mean to single one out and not the other.

FYI sodium cyanoborohydride is typically a white crystal and has no relationship to the blue/purple whatsoever.
Yes of course I realize this – I've worked with that compound. Of course, you're absolutely right and I was just using lazy logic there. Good work in digging for accuracy and sharing this info with us; very much appreciated. The whole thing reminded me of the story of Lapis Lazuli and its role in the arts, for example the use of ultramarine blue in Johannes Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring.
"In this case, orange-red light around 680 nanometers in wavelength is absorbed, and the reflected light appears blue as a result."
So cool.

Anyway, this is not confirmed, but I did just hear from a friend that all of this super dark purple MDMA that's going around the USA right now was supposedly smuggled into the country in wine, which I do know, has been done. I was thinking it was intentionally dyed, but I really don't know. Also from another friend, the super dark purple MDMA was lab tested and found to be only 84% MDMA HCL, so yeah, its not very pure.
Intéressant. Yeah, I always wash out the purple staining, and I've let the rinse evaporate and collected the mostly purple essence that's removed. I've even capsulized this stuff, but I don't have the guts to take one of those dark purple capsules. Do you think it's all just wine tannins and pigments, et al.?
 
"really unique" should read "sadly rare" instead, but yes I totally agree. Properly pressing tablets is difficult and tricky in a clandestine setting.


Apologies, I meant for both IPA and acetone to be anhydrous, of course. One is just the ketone of the other, after all, and it's a simple matter of salting them to an anhydrous state. Didn't mean to single one out and not the other.


Yes of course I realize this – I've worked with that compound. Of course, you're absolutely right and I was just using lazy logic there. Good work in digging for accuracy and sharing this info with us; very much appreciated. The whole thing reminded me of the story of Lapis Lazuli and its role in the arts, for example the use of ultramarine blue in Johannes Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring.

So cool.


Intéressant. Yeah, I always wash out the purple staining, and I've let the rinse evaporate and collected the mostly purple essence that's removed. I've even capsulized this stuff, but I don't have the guts to take one of those dark purple capsules. Do you think it's all just wine tannins and pigments, et al.?
If you put the purple residues that you've collected in water with an acid (any weak reducing agent will work), does it disappear?
If it does, that's what iodine does.

If you put the purple residue in plain distilled water, does it turn brown? If it does, that's what iodine does.

I do not believe that you can say the same thing for NaBH₃CN.
 
Then it's probably iodine.

Iodine in water isn't purple. It may also be true for some other solvents. It doesn't turn purple until it's exposed to oxygen.

If there's a reducing agent in your solution, even something as simple as vitamin c or another acid, it donates an electron to the iodine and the iodine is colorless in solution.

Once you evaporate the solution, you see the purple.

Another point to consider is that iodine in water that doesn't have a reducing agent looks dark brown.

It could also be an iodo-methylenedioxy-methyl--something, that's a by-product of some weird or not. So weird reaction that wasn't removed properly.

Here is a synthesis for MDMA that uses hydroiotic acid as the cleaving agent:

Starting with:
2,3-dimethoxypropiophenone (2.8g) was refluxed with hydriodic acid (11g) and an equal volume of glacial acetic acid for 6 hr.

To later give 3,4 dihydroxy-phenylacetone. Seems like a place iodine contamination could come into play.

You gotta remember though most major labs are not likely using that route. As @Fertile has said, clandestine labs keep to the tried and true methods. It takes some major arm twisting (usually regulatory) before things change.

I’d bet that iodine contamination while indeed possible is highly unlikely.

-GC
 
You gotta remember though most major labs are not likely using that route. As @Fertile has said, clandestine labs keep to the tried and true methods. It takes some major arm twisting (usually regulatory) before things change.

I’d bet that iodine contamination while indeed possible is highly unlikely.

-GC
I actually agree with you. However, the two prong test I just proposed will determine whether it is cyanoborohydride or iodine.

I don't believe that cyanoborohydride goes from purple to invisible in water with a reducing agent.

I also don't believe that it turns brown in distilled water.

However, iodine does both of those things.

And both of those things have been reported by the original poster.
 
If you put the purple residues that you've collected in water with an acid (any weak reducing agent will work), does it disappear?
If it does, that's what iodine does.

If you put the purple residue in plain distilled water, does it turn brown? If it does, that's what iodine does.

I do not believe that you can say the same thing for NaBH₃CN.
Eh… nothing is conclusive here without something like GC-MS.
 
Eh… nothing is conclusive here without something like GC-MS.

Do you actually know any other chemical that is purple, it turns invisible in solution with a weak reducing agent, and turns brown when put into distilled water, yet when the water is evaporated or is taken out of solution, it turns back purple - than iodine?
 
Do you actually know any other chemical that is purple, it turns invisible in solution with a weak reducing agent, and turns brown when put into distilled water, yet when the water is evaporated or is taken out of solution, it turns back purple - than iodine?
No, but I also do not have exhaustive & extensive knowledge of all compounds and their optical properties at all times in any conceivable solution or arrangement and so on and so forth. Maybe you do, but you still can’t say for certain that it’s iodine. You know as well as I do that you need analytical confirmation to be certain. I enjoy and appreciate your conjectures all the same, and I’m not ruling out iodine either. But as I’ve pointed out months ago on this thread, this is all just speculation, which is fine, but should be kept in perspective for what it is. Lotta conclusion-jumping on this thread otherwise.
 
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