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by beepbooptheory 1147 days ago
In high school (as a bad kid) we used to get all sorts of different "ecstasy" pills with nicknames like "blue ladies" or "bugs bunnies" or whatever. You never quite knew what it was going to be like, or whether even the blue lady you had this time was even the same as the one you had last time. Looking back, the spectrum of effects we would get were definitely due to whether they were cut with uppers or downers. It ranged from more typical emotional experiences you attribute to ecstasy (cocaine/meth), to more "body high" ones which were probably opiates of some sort.

Am very happy to hear this kind of thing is more rare. Not that street users have too much more assurance either way the MDMA they are getting is in fact MDMA, but hopefully thar whatever analogues there are now are a little better than meth or heroin.

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> Am very happy to hear this kind of thing is more rare. Not that street users have too much more assurance either way the MDMA they are getting is in fact MDMA, but hopefully thar whatever analogues there are now are a little better than meth or heroin.

Almost all Ecstasy/MDMA outside a pharmaceutical setting is adulterated, usually with other amphetamines. The degree of adulteration varies, and in some cases it may not be very noticeable by the user, but it's incredibly rare to find pure MDMA outside of a pharmaceutical setting.

Methamphetamine is one of the most common adulterants. (This is a bit of a misnomer, because MDMA is itself actually a methamphetamine, but it's not the one most people are referring to when they say "meth").

Ah well... Nevertheless