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    In some areas ecstasy is primarily used to describe pressed pills that have mdma as the main active ingredient, while molly refers to pure mdma, either in baggies or capsules.

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      to add to this, a lot of what was sold as ecstasy (at least back in my day) contained little to no mdma at all and was typically just a cheap upper of some sort. originally ecstasy was close to 1:1 slang for pressed mdma pills but over time it became more attached to the pills and less to the molly specifically (mostly for marketing purposes).

      of course you can crush x and snort it but at that point it would probably be more accurate to refer to it as molly or speed depending on what’s actually in it.

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        Yeah, we definitely still needed reagent test kits back then. At least the one that would turn yellow for the common fake kind at the time, and black for mdma. But the real stuff was still around.

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      MDMA in a pill baggy or capsule it’s the same. That molly you’re buying isn’t pure either

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        MDMA in a pill baggy or capsule it’s the same.

        Right. It’s the pressed pills that get the “ecstasy” name in my area, which have binders.

        That molly you’re buying isn’t pure either

        It’s been a long time for me. I’m sure that’s now the case.