European Ecstasy Pills Getting Stronger Again

Ecstasy testing experts in Holland said this week that the MDMA dosage in pills is rising again, after years of diminishing strengths, with the vast majority of pills in circulation almost always containing ecstasy.

"What we see in Amsterdam is that 95% of the samples contain MDMA," health education adviser Jaap Jamin told the Standard. "At the beginning of the 90s it was on average 105mg (per pill), then it went down to 50mg or 60mg. Now slowly, it is going back down again," he said.

The article warned that dangerously wide variations in strength continue to surface in Amsterdam, with some pills containing 3mg of MDMA and others 225 mg.

Furthermore, a number of pills tested in recent months including ones with Nike, Superman and Elephant logos contained PMA, the highly dangerous adulterant, linked to a number of deaths in Australia.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_faq_testing_kits.shtml (Everything you need to know about ecstasy testing)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk (Evening Standard, London)
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