Hey, sorry for the [Serious] tag. I know a lot of us are laughing to keep from crying, but I thought about some things and wanted to get the input of my mind-altered kin. Hopefully the discussion will take off, but if not, that's okay too ☺
I started rolling in the late 90's. Presses were $30-$50 depending on how many were around. There was this mythical stuff call "Molly" which was a pure, uncut powder of MDMA which hadn't been adulterated with... whatever (obviously, we're all very familiar with Molly/Mandy at this point).
A few years into the 2000's, it seemed ecstasy had disappeared (for me at least). Later in the decade, I read that a lot of countries started closely monitoring safrole oil and other precursors to synthesizing MDMA.
Then while in Outpatient Treatment in 2013, I heard of this website where you can get any drug you want, from anywhere in the world. Started looking into it and lo and behold, SR1.
It's been well known for a while that The Netherlands has been a HUGE manufacturer of MDMA for a while now. I think they had found other, more common precursors that were easier to procure. After that, MDMA went from one of the most expensive drugs, to one of the cheapest - all because of the massive supply in NL.
Now, we all know basic economics. Reducing the supply (Thanks Europol, et al) has no effect on the demand. It just jacks the price up. With all those addresses in NL being circulated, I can imagine lots of synthesis will grind to a halt.
To me, the last 5 or 6 years have been a MDMA golden age. Its a special chemical when respected, and I just hope there are those willing to pick up the torch moving forward.
Anyway, any thoughts you have are welcome. Hope you're having a nice day/evening 😃
I remember this age. settle down for a tale as old as time. A story called the hive, you see there was a mytical website called the hive which would teach you how to make any drug MDMA being the biggest. This was 1999-2002 Strike (hobart husan), and Cops were onto rhodium (04 is when the hive was offline) and you see this precursor SAFROLE became highly regulated and watched because strike told everyone how to make mdma and find safrole (sassafras oil), now it's possibly more watched more so then methylamine and almost as much as P2P.
Then we had our drought 2002-13. There's an ebook called 'Pills Of God' on Amazon about one of the guys involved in the discovery of this process, it happened much earlier than 2012 though.
He was a Dutch cook and flew to Shanghai to a factory where they had dozens of tons of PMK they couldn't sell because it had been recently banned. He put 2mil upfront he borrowed off the author of the book and had the factories entire stock converted into this new precursor and shipped a bit to Australia and the rest to Europe. The author of the book was an Australian cook the Dutch guy met when they were both in jail in the US a decade or so earlier. and thus since 2012ish onward the dutch have switched recipes to due access of safrole and have switch to this chemical instead as it is super cheap around $200 kilo non bulk (4kg) and (400) per single. The canadians use helional to Make MDA. tbh I know what you are talking about and it was a precursor shortage and not chemists :)