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| Some tablets even contain stamping that indicate the quantity of MDMA present, although this is not always accurate and may also constitute a health risk. For example, in August 2023, tablets containing 350 milligrams of MDMA were seized in Spain. Meanwhile, data from drug-checking services suggest that approximately 85 % of the powders tested in 2023 contained between 80 and 100 % MDMA (81 % in 2022). Data reported to drug-checking services are generally in agreement with these trends. The detection of mixtures of MDMA and ketamine combined with other substances including cocaine have also increased in some regions of Europe, and are sold as ‘pink cocaine’, ‘tuci’ or ‘tucibi’ (see Box 6.3. What is tucibi? | This specialization likely reflects the Netherlands' role in the production of these drug types, making vendor access to these substances relatively easy and also profitable given its location in the supply chain. This may be linked to the country's small population, but it could also be a result of the crucial role the country plays in the European drug markets. Intelligence from law enforcement suggests that domestic drugs sales from Dutch vendors are relatively smal |
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| | MDMA is one of the most frequently traded drugs online across a range of platforms, including darknet markets (see Section Trafficking and distribution — online trade and distribution on darknet markets) as well as surface web and social media platforms. An equal percentage of [[https://royalmedspharma.com/effects-of-mdma-pills-euphoria-elevated-power-and-sensory-enhancement/|buy ecstasy]] respondents reported delivery through regular mail or post, and picking the drugs up from a location without any personal contact (7 %). More than three quarters of EWSD respondents (77 %) reported meeting their dealer outside as the usual method for receiving drugs, followed by home delivery (17 %). |
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| Together, these two data sources suggests that the large majority of MDMA users buy the drug themselves, and that a smaller proportion obtains it for free, despite marked differences among EU countries. Despite their image as risk-taking hedonists, people who use drugs recreationally do seek out and share harm reduction strategies, often alongside ‘pleasure maximisation’ strategies (the latter often requiring considerable knowledge of drug research, policy and practice). Given the right information and opportunities, most people who use drugs will make rational risk-management decisions when they do so. Given the option, it is clear that people who use MDMA and other drugs will embrace harm reduction approaches, and support their development. Harm reduction is not a principle that policy makers will need to force upon people who use MDMA or other drugs in nightlife and party settings. Significant numbers of people not only like MDMA’s effects and are willing to take known risks (health and legal) to enjoy them, but they seem to prefer it to most available substitute | |
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| The drug can be used to reduce inhibitions and eliminate anxiety and produces feelings of empathy for others. In Napa County MDMA or ecstasy is sold in pill form. Persistent deficits in serotonin are likely responsible [[https://royalmedspharma.com/effects-of-mdma-pills-euphoria-elevated-power-and-sensory-enhancement/|buy mdma]] for many of the persistent behavioral effects that the user experiences. MDMA in its true form works in the brain by increasing the activity levels of at least three neuro-transmitters, serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. | As prices for MDMA and ecstasy in countries buy ecstasy like Australia are considerably higher than in the Netherlands — sometimes even tenfold — overseas transactions for these substances may be worth the risk of interception. Drug vendors operating from the United States have the highest market share of drugs sold on cryptomarkets (35.9 percent of total drug revenues), followed by the UK (16.1 percent) and Australia (10.6 percent). Our web-scraping and analysis of cryptomarket data from January 2016 suggests that the number of advertisements for illicit drugs on these market places has seen a six-fold increase since September 2013. However, the claim that the online drugs trade is having a substantial impact on global drug markets remains untested. The German police, for example, seized 320 kilos of drugs when it arrested Shiny Flakes, a 20-year-old cryptomarket drug dealer whose profits were estimated at 1 million euros for the six months prior to his arrest. |
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| | Cryptomarkets offer potential customer outlets for vendors who are closely located to source regions. And the results also show drug transactions have tripled and monthly revenues have doubled. Within buy ecstasy weeks, Silk Road's place was filled by a copycat, and by 2016 around 50 cryptomarkets and vendor shops appeared active on the hidden web. By 2016 around 50 cryptomarkets and vendor shops appeared active on the hidden web. |
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| | This finding is interesting because it challenges the convention that cryptomarkets facilitate the globalization of drug retail markets. The most common routes for drugs were those within North America, Europe, and Oceania. We find that cryptomarkets still tend to be dominated by vendors from the US, the UK, Australia, and a few other countries (see figure below). Since Silk Road (the first cryptomarket) was put under the spotlight in 2011, the role these online market places play in global illegal trade has become hotly debated. In the worst cases, a fake pill may contain drugs or chemicals that could harm you. Medicines sold online and by places that do not have a physical address can be fak |
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| Although often used interchangeably, ecstasy and MDMA are not necessarily synonyms. Additionally, particularly with instant messaging applications, transactions may be organised online, but completed using in-person pick-up or ‘dead-drop’ delivery. Recently, however, social media platforms and instant messaging applications have become particularly dynamic online channels through which MDMA is sold to consumers. | In Australia, MDMA/Ecstasy are also known as E, pills, caps, pingers, M&M, doopa, love drug, disco biscuits, XTC, X, eccy, ekky, or molly. Safer nightlife online resources. Deaths related to drug poisoning, England and Wales. The model includes precautionary measures related to product control and information provision on safe ecstasy use. The analysis considers impacts of different policy options across a range of outcomes to develop a new optimized policy model for ecstasy. Adaptations in the behaviours of people who use MDMA shows that they are able, willing and indeed eager to minimise their risk exposure where possibl |
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| According to survey data, the two largest MDMA consumer markets per capita in the European Union are the Netherlands and Ireland, with 6 % or more people aged 15 to 34 reporting to have consumed MDMA in the last year. While a slight decrease in price was observed in 2022 for ecstasy tablets, this buy mdma may not be statistically significant or sustained in the coming years. In fact, it could be argued that MDMA in the form of ecstasy tablets became cheaper between 2012 and 2019 as tablets containing larger quantities of MDMA became increasingly available on the market (see Section The trend of large tablets containing more MDMA may be reversing). For countries reporting data in 2022, a considerable retail price range was observed, with prices per ecstasy tablet ranging from EUR 4 to EUR 19 (mean) and prices of MDMA powder from EUR 6 to EUR 50 per gram. Occasionally, tablets containing 250 milligrams or more of MDMA are encountered on EU drug markets. | Rates of adulteration of ecstasy tablets, their MDMA content and their price tend to reflect broader changes in the factors that affect the MDMA market. MDMA is most commonly found on the European market in the form of ecstasy tablets, relatively pure crystals or powders (finely ground crystals of MDMA that are typically mixed with other substances). For example, many people who use drugs recreationally access internet-based resources to obtain and exchange advice and information about their drugs of choice, with experienced ‘recreational’ drug users frequently offering experiential ‘knowledge’ to young people new to dance club scenes. (1) The European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD) is a voluntary, anonymous survey run by the EUDA and its partners targeting directly people who use drugs who are 18 years old or older, and are living in one of the participating countries. When using wastewater data to estimate MDMA markets, the use of MDMA is based on the excreted parent drug, rather than on an excreted metabolite (which is the case for some other drugs, such as cocaine and heroin). Demand-based estimates may underestimate the size of drug markets for a number of reasons, including difficulty reaching some groups of users, and underreporting of prevalence and quantities used by respondent |
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| All of the 10 cities with data for both 2011 and 2023 had higher MDMA levels in 2023 than in 2011 (see Figure 6.6. Key prevalence data for MDMA/ecstasy use in Europe). Of the 69 cities that have data for 2022 and 2023, 42 reported an increase, 11 reported a stable situation and 16 a decrease. Importantly, reported use of the drug declined temporarily during periods of social distancing during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, coinciding with the closure buy mdma of nightlife and the cancellation of events where MDMA is typically consumed. | |
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| Together, these two data sources suggests that the large majority of MDMA users buy the drug themselves, and that a smaller proportion obtains it for free, despite marked differences among EU countrie | |
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| A study conducted by 10 drug-checking organisations from the TEDI network found that the increase in MDMA content in tablets in this time period was directly related to an increase in the average weight of ecstasy tablets (Vrolijk et al., 2022). The average content of MDMA in ecstasy tablets appears to be on a slight downward trend from 2019, after close to a decade of increasingly stronger (and larger) tablets becoming available on the market. On occasion, neurotoxic compounds such as PMMA (5) are detected mixed with, or as a replacement for, MDMA in ecstasy tablets. From 2019 onwards a new cycle appears to have begun, whereby the number of ecstasy tablets containing other substances alongside, or instead of, MDMA has increased (as expressed by a drop in percentage in the indexed trends shown above from 96 % in 2019 to 73 % in 2022). Crystal MDMA was marketed as a purer product compared to ecstasy tablets, an assertion that was and remains largely true (see Section The trend of large tablets containing more MDMA may be reversing). One way to observe these cycles is to monitor rates of adulteration, as expressed by the percentage of tested samples of seized ecstasy tablets that contain MDMA and no other buy mdma scheduled substances. | |
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| The use of these methods differed between countries, indicating that some purchasing practices are more common in some countries than in others. Smaller numbers of respondents also reported using the darknet (13 %) and social media (7 %). Data from drug-checking services can also inform on the type of relationships that exist between the consumer and the provider. The products had a net weight of approximately 20 grams each and contained between 130 and 176 milligrams of MDMA, evenly distributed inside the lollipops. | |
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