Trends Ecstasy Mimic Tablets (containing Amphetamine)

[turkeyphant]

Report from Microgram stating that "ecstasy" tablets have been found that contain no MDMA at all and only amphetamine:

The Phoenix Police Department Laboratory Services Bureau (Arizona) recently received four separate submissions, each consisting of a box containing a bundle, suspected in all four cases to contain marijuana. The boxes were being individually mailed via an express mail service from Phoenix to Georgia, and were seized by the Phoenix Police. Each bundle was wrapped in numerous layers of cellophane, with layers of grease throughout the wrappings; the grease did not have a noticeable odor. Three of the bundles turned out to contain marijuana (total net mass approximately 4.1 kilograms); however, the fourth package, which was smaller than the other three but otherwise identical in appearance, contained 400 mottled tablets with a “check-off” logo on one face and half-scored on the opposite face, apparent Ecstasy (see Photo 7, previous page). Analysis of the tablets (total net mass approximately 90 grams) by color testing (Marquis) and GC/MS, however, indicated not MDMA but rather amphetamine (salt form not determined). The tablets were not formally quantitated; however, the GC/MS results suggested that the loading was quite high. Although the laboratory has previously received tablets with a similar logo, this is believed to be the first submission of amphetamine-containing Ecstasy mimic tablets.

[Nature Boy]

This kind of practice is far from unusual over in this neck of the woods. As popularity of a drug rises, as has XTC steadily in Ireland over the past decade, cheaper mass-produced variants come onto the market in order to cash-in and rip off unsuspecting customers. It's always good to have a pill testing kit just to be sure you know what you're getting. SWIM would be quite annoyed if he ingested amphetamine expecting an MDMA experience.