In more dangerous drug news, Belgium officials issued an alert last week about a new batch of ecstasy tablets containing massive amounts of MDMA. According to the Belgian Scientific Public Health Institute, a batch of round pink pills stamped with Mercedes logos are in circulation which contain 308 milligrammes of MDMA, well over triple the strength of pills which would themselves normally be considered strong.
This was from Skruff newsletter, so probably not the most reliable of sources but this is seriously nuts if true.
Does anyone have any concrete confirmation of this claim? Coming out of Belgium I am tempted to put more stock in this than I would had it been claimed by someone from the John Hopkins institute in Maryland.
Most pills are not much heavier than 308mg so the pill would have to be extra large or EXTREMELY dense (tightly pressed) to get that much in there. The highest purity pill i've seen is 59% - so you do the math. There has to surely be at least a minimum of 20-30% of binder to hold the thing together.
Regardless of whether or not MDMA has a lethal dose, pills of this strength would do some damage.
Not that I wouldnt love one though, I'd just want access to this quantitative result first - I'd be taking this one in thirds!