UK MDMA hits highest purity in years

New records from UK drug labs suggest that the popular party substance MDMA is back to its purest for several years. 

In a recent Vice report featuring research company The Loop and government-funded testing lab TicTac, data showed that only 1% of all recent samples contained “contaminants and imposter substances.”

The Loop’s director, Fiona Measham, told Vice: “This year, we have seen the amount of fake ecstasy drop back to pre-pandemic levels,

“It’s very strange, and we have no idea why [fake MDMA] seems to have just disappeared. This was an exclusively UK phenomenon, and there seems to be no hangover from last year, except that people appear to be behaving more cautiously at festivals than before – maybe this year’s heat also factored,

“But we are seeing comparatively less MDMA samples making their way to us and are instead seeing more ketamine and mushrooms, which are harder to fake and have lesser aftereffects.”

Measham also added: “Before the pandemic, we were regularly putting out warnings for pills containing upwards of 300mg of MDMA, which is many times more than the suggested dose [of around 80-120mg],

“Super strong pills are still being found, but we are finding more pills of around 150mg to 180mg, which are still high but much smaller than what was around before.”