The BBC reported this week that fake ‘ecstasy pills’, GLB and still currently legal alternative mephedrone are rapidly replacing MDMA in the UK, as authorities have tightened controls worldwide on MDMA precursor chemicals.
The British media organization said police busts for ecstasy have collapsed from 1197 in London in 2006 to just 331 last year as criminals have switched to manufacturing pills containing BZP and other chemicals.
“If you can't buy it, you can't buy it - that could be to do with this issue of precursor chemicals,” Drugscope chief Harry Shapiro told the BBC, "If you lack the chemicals to make it there will be less around. The figures suggest MDMA is harder to get at the moment than it was."
The BBC’s analysis was backed up by leading pill testing website Pillreports.com which in recent times has been dominated by bogus pills of bewildering variety, almost none of which contain any traces of MDMA at all.
In recent postings ‘Spliffhead in Munich described being disappointed after discovering an ‘extremely professional, impressive’ Mitsibishi pill was fake, as was Raf1dsi who bought a different Mitsubishi in the UK.
“Last night tested quite a reasonably thick single stacked mitsubishi from Manchester which only slightly fizzed to the marquis reagent with no colour change,” he wrote, “The pill itself was quite a pure white, and it was quite hard. Threw it away,” he added.
Also this week ‘darkveiled’ from London described taking a ‘very well pressed, slightly curved on the bottom and slight bevelling around the edge of the top’ Bacardi Bat pill he subsequently suspected contained Piperazine.
“I have to admit, for most of the night they seemed okay. Not very lovey MDMA like, but enough to keep me dancing,” Darkveiled reported.
“It was after I started coming down that everything started getting a bit weird,” he continued.
“Thoughts were jumbled, I could hardly string a sentence together. Everything in the room was so busy I nearly passed out and had to go and sit somewhere quiet for, well, pretty much the rest of the night. Me and a friend also both felt extremely sick and could only really put it down to the pill.”
I have no idea what's in them,” he added, warning ‘DON'T TAKE THESE!’
The pill reports contrasted markedly with the description recorded by genius pharmacologist Dr Alexander Shulgin, who wrote poignantly of his first serious MDMA experience, when he experimented with the then almost totally unknown drug in his lab in 1976.
"I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria. I have never felt so great or believed this to be possible,” he recorded, after taking a 120mg dose.
“The cleanliness, clarity, and marvelous feeling of solid inner strength continued throughout the rest of the day and evening. I am overcome by the profundity of the experience,” he added.
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