Some advice in case there are still teenagers and young adults who use forums for info rather than todays dumbed down social networks…. or if you know any teenagers who might benefit from it feel free to print out this and show ti to them.
In the last few days I’ve read yet more reports of what appear to be accidental ODs across the UK as well as NL, to the point I am losing count of which case is which.
There have been a few fatalities; more common is groups of friends end up in hospital and then getting quizzed by Police when they have recovered; which can fuck up long term friendships between young people and their extended families even if everyone recovers and no one ends up in prison.
A common factor is the casualties are teenagers of “year 12/13 / sixth form” age (for those outside England thats biological age 16-19) – or young adults from age 18-25. Are they being more reckless than in the late 80s/early 90s when I was that age? No.
By 1991 MDMA pills were available; but they were priced at £10-£20 each – this was a lot of money considering that a pack of 20 cigarettes was less than £2, or the same amount would buy you enough cannabis to share between 3-5 friends or more booze than you would want to actually drink (but sometimes did anyway because you were young).
However the best pills were about the same strength as todays “superpills” you only needed to take one for a whole night (such as an event starting at 23:00 and finishing 06:00) and even then half was often very strong; you felt that if you had taken the whole pill at once it would have been too much.
Todays pills are much cheaper per unit (complete reverse to the price of cigarettes but does mirror alcohol prices to some extent) but equally strong as those I encountered especially from 1991 to 1992 (and there were sadly some casualties back then, one of them in particular I still miss to this day….)
Those of us who drink will know by experience that sometimes “less is more” especially when it comes to actually enjoying yourselves, recovery times, staying out of dangerous situations.
MDMA is often safer than alcohol when responsibly used; but “less is more” applies to this stuff just as equally – also in the same way if you don’t cane a entire bottle of vodka / gin / scotch you can keep the rest for later, pills and powders don’t “go bad” even if stored for months. Although make sure you stash those where they won’t get you in trouble or risk any other human or animal accidentally ingesting them or coming to harm…
This is how some of us survived the 1980s-2000s raaa
