Just a quick update...
@Observer01 - Yes, I believe the only way forward is with advanced scientific analysis. We can talk all we want here and compare research articles and personal experiences, but none of that will definitively answer the question.
Also, I am aware that I can come across as combative (as I already said to Negi in my other post). Not my intention. However, I am going to stand up for myself and for all of the other users who have shared their experiences over the years. Not going to roll over and cater to the latest incomer who has arrived to tell everyone else that they are wrong. Also, "Psychologists use the term “
gaslighting” to refer to a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator is trying to get someone else (or a group of people) to question their own reality, memory or perceptions." That is what I often see in the thread. The comment was not directed at you or at anyone in particular, but we have wasted pages and pages just trying to defend our own "reality, memory, or perceptions."
"Academic discussion requires both sides to be open to differing opinions, which is something that you espouse that you believe in frequently, but do not seem to actually practice." I have openly explored as wide a range of theories and explanations as I have been able to. I have posted about Zinc deficiency and serotonin, I have tried the NAC protocol, I have tried the BCP-157 protocol. I have posted trying to find out if my birth control could be interfering in my MDMA experiences, and openly, repeatedly acknowledged that my issue could be history of use (but that does not explain the new users who were given LAB TESTED MDMA and had a subpar experience).
(Edited to add - I have also spent more money on this endeavor than most people in this thread. I have paid for lab testing of almost all of my meh samples, and for a magic sample from another poster - easily $700-$800 on testing services alone. I've engaged actively with Drugs Data and International Energy Control trying to get scientific involvement to resolve this issue. So, not sure what kind of
practice you are looking for. I've primarily advocated for gathering hard, scientific data to shed further light.)
Being open to debate does not mean that you allow the other side of the debate to steamroll your perspective. That is what academic debate is. You hold your own position as you engage different viewpoints.
@user666
I did the initial blood glucose test at 11 pm before I took the MDMA and it was 90. At 1 am, before I took a 2nd dose, it was up to 105. Nothing was consumed between 11 pm and 1 am other than the MDMA and water.
Overall experience report from last night...
Dissolving in water made no difference, and increasing the dose made no difference in the overall quality of the roll. I did come up a bit faster, and took note of that come-up around 11:30 pm. The first batch of MDMA that I took was not good. I was completely couch locked and spaced out. My partner even commented repeatedly that I did not seem like I was rolling and that my mannerisms, expressions, and movements did not seem "right."
I switched to a different batch of MDMA for the second dose. This was the 80% pure batch, and definitely the best of all my acquisitions over the past few years as far as I am concerned. I could feel the tone of the experience shift when that hit, and things became more positive, but it was very muted. It was not as positive of an experience as it was in the past when I started with this batch to begin with. This really just cements for me that the batches are different, very different. Both of these batches were lab tested as MDMA only, but had completely different feelings to them.
I threw some MDA on at the end, but it was a lost cause at that point.
Overall, very meh.
