At the end of last year i decided i wouldn't put another drug in me, other than weed, that i hadn't tested. Naturally the most common non weed drug around me was molly. Roommates rolling all night, any fest or concert was full of it so all my friends had to have it before we went. But before i ever took any with my home dogs, i decided to test it. I bought a good general test kit and a meth test solution. And guess what. Not one of the times was the molly pure MDMA. Often in contained NO MDMA. It usually had meth, sometimes a little coke, sometimes crack, sometimes table salt, never over 25% MDMA. And that was a large number of samples from both east and west Washington state and Arizona. It was the same both places, my friends would swear this was the "good shit", not like the other molly id seen. Id convince one of them to let me test it a day or two before whatever event they wanted it for, and viola, not MDMA. Not even close. Yet most of them still did it. My old best friend basically turned a cold shoulder on me when i refused to tell him it was ok to roll. He wanted me to say go for it, and i said no. I told him he had no idea what was in it, that the test kit didn't even test for whatever it was, and that it was a horrible idea. His girlfriend told me i was wrong and to stop trying to ruin their fun. Molly was supposed to have random stuff in it. 4 hours later they were both in the hospital. Neither admitted it was the "molly". To this day the both said they drank and mixed the good molly they had and THAT was the problem. Right.
But this attitude hasn't stopped with someone i used to think of as a brother. I have quite a few acquaintances (I wouldn't call the friends) who work within the EDM industry. A few small time DJ's, a girl who owns a business that sends dancers to concerts, quite a few promoters, and a few more friends who just kind of know people in the industry and attend every fest they can. And they all say, "EDM does not rely on molly, pure MDMA is safe, only idiots take bad molly" One of them said this right after Paradisio in Pullman. Where a ton of people almost died, and a few did, after a promoter/drug dealer sold them all very bad molly. From the outside i said, how can this person defend their culture when the festival they were working for clearly promoted it?
Its like a lie kids just want to believe, and since they want to believe it no one questions it. EDM culture is the problem. Molly is the problem. Not idiot kids, not mixing drugs with drink (which also isnt a good idea), not being dehydrated, and not bad drug dealers. The demand is the problem. Tyga's song is the problem. This attitude that our generation has taken on, that we need to be freed, that we can't cope with "the man", that our energy together combined with crazy dance music is all we really need, that is the problem.
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S Thompson from his book Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas.
