UK Ecstasy users consume a whacking 2 million ecstasy tablets a week, according to a recent report by HM Customs & Excise ...
...According to a report in UK newspaper, The Observer, official estimates indicate that half a million of these tablets are taken in clubs and pubs. The report claims that there are 430,000 users in the UK, who spend a total of �300m a year on ecstasy, perhaps taking between 10 and 15 pills a night. However, a drugs survey in dance magazine, Mixmag, suggests that E users consume an average of 3.4 ecstasy pills per session, taking an average maximum of 8.5 pills for men and 7 for women. If you're an ecstasy user, you buy tablets in the hope that they contain MDMA or 'pure ecstasy'. But if someone blinfolded you then asked you to pick from a bag containing a mixture of MDMA (pure ecstasy), PMA (which boils your body like an egg), ketamine (horse tranquiliser) and strychnine (rat poison) pills, would you pick one out and take it without checking what it was first, on the off-chance that you had chosen the ecstasy? No? But that's exactly what you could be doing what when you take tablets sold to you as E. MDMA is itself a potentially fatal substance, and everyone who takes it endangers themself to some extent, but you can go some way to protecting yourself by testing pills before you take them ...
Testing: What's The Point?
Why do ecstasy manafacturers make ecstasy? To make cash, of course. But pure 'Ecstasy' or MDMA is risky and expensive to produce, which is why the illicit market is being flooded with pills sold under the guise of ecstasy when, in fact, they could contain any number of other substances. All ecstasy manafacturers make E to make money, but some are more unscrupulous than others and in order to cash in on MDMA's high demand, will sell less risky and cheaper to make substances such as PMA, DXM, PCP, ketamine, methamphetamine and strychnine. According to some reports, some substances such as valium, morphine, anti-histamines, dog-worming pills and crushed glass have also previously been found in fake ecstasy tablets. MDMA itself is a dangerous drug, which does kill, but many of these other substances are more dangerous than MDMA, and have been the cause of many E-related deaths.
What is an ecstasy testing kit?
An Ecstasy Testing Kit contains a chemical reagent, or a combination of reagents, that react to several substances often found in Ecstasy pills. Each of these substances have specific color changes and reaction times. These color changes and reaction times can indicate what substance or substances may be present in an Ecstasy pill. The color change usually happens within 10-15 seconds of combining the pill and liquid. All kits contain instructions and colour charts detailing colour changes and their significance. |
