Rumours

You've probably heard stories of E being spiked with addictive and
poisonous substances. True, when you buy "Ecstasy" there's no quality
control and you may well get cocktails of other drugs, particularly when
the dealer has run out of MDMA. You may also get a dud. But not heroin or
poison.

Every day the police confiscate suspect drugs which are sent to a
forensic laboratory at Aldermaston specially equipped to detect drugs,
and they have never come across drugs sold as Ecstasy containing heroin.
People taken to hospital with possible drug problems have samples of
their blood sent to the National Poisons Unit which has special equipment
to detect drugs: heroin has not been found in the blood of patients
reported to have taken only Ecstasy. So how did the rumours start?
A year ago Time Out magazine ran a double page feature entitled "Bitter
Pills", subtitled "Ecstasy has turned to agony for thousands of E users"
as dealers spike tablets and capsules with heroin, LSD, rat poison and
crushed glass. The story was repeated all over the place, even in a
Danish newspaper.

I questioned the source quoted: Stephen Beard of the Newham Drugs Advice
Project. He was elusive, and when I finally I got him on the phone would
only say that the story came from a dealer who said he made fake Ecstasy
by crushing light bulbs. There was no supporting evidence such as lab
tests or reports from doctors who had treated users. The National Poisons
Unit told me there had been no recent cases of poisoning due to ground
glass or rat poison. Yet, in spite of my protests, Newham and Time Out
did nothing to correct the story. Likewise, Mixmag's recent feature on
Ecstasy omitted to mention the Glasgow tests showing that Ecstasy was not
contaminated, even though they had the results. Mixmag also said: "300mg
MDMA can kill a small girl" (the lowest lethal dose recorded in animal
trials was 20mg/kilo, or 300mg for someone weighing 15kg: a very small
girl); and "MDA is like strong LSD mixed with speed" (MDA has no LSD-like
effects, it is similar to MDMA but longer lasting and with less warmth).
Its as though no-one wants to undermine the established myths.
One of these came from a satirical song in the fifties called The Old
Dope Peddler: "He gives the kids free samples because he knows full well,
that today's young innocent faces will become tomorrow's clientele". Its
no more likely than your local wine merchant going to the trouble and
expense of injecting bottles with heroin, hoping that you will become an
addict to boost his sales. True, some dealers cheat by selling any old
white powder as Ecstasy, but cheats are unlikely to sell heroin at a loss
or go to the trouble of crushing light bulbs.

Most of the substitutes found in Ecstasy are not harmful, but can produce
unexpected effects. However, before you blame the pill, you should
realise just how important is the situation and you own expectations. In
fact, very few people realise and accept how much the effect of drugs
like Ecstasy depends on their own situation, and state of mind at the
time. My best E experience was caused by an identical tablet as one that
made a friend sick and another that had no effect (at a party in an
enclosed tunnel).

Remember that E is not simply a happy pill, but lowers your defences and
allows you to open up. However, it may be more comfortable to remain
defensive and reserved unless you are in a situation where you feel good.
E can bring up suppressed feelings which you may not be prepared to face.
More on situations to avoid and emotional dangers next month.
Deaths in Scotland

I have been trying to discover what caused the deaths at Hanger 13 - so
as to inform people and prevent more tragedies. I have even spoken to say
they know but can't tell because, mad though it seems, Scottish law
prohibits them from revealing cause of death. However, the Home Office
licensed Glasgow University to collect and analyse 15 samples of
"Ecstasy" after the deaths. 14 were pure MDMA and one was a capsule that
contained speed with just a trace of MDMA. So it seems unlikely that
these deaths were due to poisons sold as Ecstasy. Incidentally, doctors
who had talked to users of "Rhubarb and Custard" said they believed it
contained "MDMA plus a strong hypnotic" (e.g. heroin). In fact it was
pure MDMA.

A possibility, believed by the National Poisons Unit, is that these
people died from overheating which has been the cause of nearly all rave
deaths, particularly in clubs with nonstop hard core techno, no chill-out
area and no free water. The tragedy is that those people didn't know the
importance of avoiding overheating. The media love to say that people who
take Ecstasy risk dropping dead without warning, but the warning is clear
to those who look out for it: getting too hot. The risk can be avoided by
taking breaks, cooling off and drinking plenty of water. Overheating also
kills people who do not take drugs, but without drugs the discomfort is
more obvious.

Now people lets FUCKING think this shit out.
X can contain coke BUT:
Why would you put coke in a pill unless your gonna snort it? Do you see coke addicts eating their coke? And do you really think the amount of coke in a pill is really going to effect you when you take it orally?
Why would anyone in there fucking right mind put coke in a pill when coke is expensive? Think about it
Did you know that when you take X and coke together they cancel each other out and you lose your buzz or high? These two do not go together!!!

Now how about Heroin... Do you honestly believe that most of the pills out there have heroin in them? Most people say that alot of pills have heroin in them.
But why the fuck would they unless again your going to snort the pill?
The amount of heroin in a pill is not orally active in that amount. It would take at least an 1/8 of an ounce to even be orally active and all that's gonna happen when you eat that much heroin is you get a stomach ache. Do you see heroin addicts on the side of the street eating their heroin?
Did you know that when your all fucked up on heroin your pupils look like pin holes?
But when your all fucked up on rolls your eyes look like pancakes. So how the fuck could heroin be in pills if it doesn't make your eyes fucking dilate?
So why would anyone waste there fucking time putting heroin in a pill if it won't do anything to you? The chemist would save more money just throwing ephedrine in your pill instead of wasting there money on heroin.
The dealer just tells you there is heroin in them to make the pill seem like it's very strong. Then you respond by saying "OOOOHH OOH these pills must be strong because they contain heroin in them so I must buy them."

People, know what the FUCK your talking about before opening your FUCKING PIE HOLE!!

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (APBnews.com) -- A new and more potent form of the designer drug Ecstasy has claimed the lives of six people in Florida since July, prompting state officials to issue a public-safety alert.

"The purpose of this alert is to make the citizens of Florida and the law enforcement community aware of the sudden appearance of this deadly illegal substance," Commissioner James T. Moore of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said this week.

Ecstasy is the street name for the chemical stimulant MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine). The Ecstasy tablets responsible for the deaths contained either PMA (paramethoxyamphetamine) or PMMA (paramethoxymethamphetamine), extremely hazardous stimulants that "burn out the central nervous system by raising the user's body temperature to nearly 108 degrees," Moore said.

It is virtually impossible for users to reliably test an Ecstasy tablet for traces of PMA or PMMA, he added.

'Epidemic proportions'

Moore cited the case of a 19-year-old Lake County, Fla., woman who died in August after taking PMA-laced Ecstasy. Five hours after her death, her body temperature was recorded at 104 degrees, he said. In Orange County, where the other five deaths occurred, the medical examiner's office reported body core temperatures from 106 to 108 degrees, Moore said.

The deaths of three people in the Chicago area in May also have been attributed to PMA, the commissioner said.

Moore said although reports of its recreational use in this country are just beginning to surface, "PMA has been used illicitly in Australia since 1994."

U.S. Customs officials say Ecstasy use, once confined to urban dance parties known as "raves," has reached epidemic proportions throughout the country.

The Drug Enforcement Administration classifies Ecstasy in the same category as LSD and heroin. As with those drugs, federal defendants face stiff penalties.

Holland = the best pills that are pure($5ea in the clubs)
US= some good, some bad, most bad.

The reason people dont make it here is not because it is hard but we dont have pill presses here, nobody buys the gel caps. The penalty for mdma manufacture are harsh at best. There is quite a bit of X made in the states, but when you can buy it cheaper then it would cost you to set up a lab from europe why risk killing yourself in an X lab.