The Trip Report 22/11
Even if you know exactly what you’re taking, drug use is never safe — that said, it’s much safer when you do.
Through the work of organisations such as WEDINOS, The Loop, and SaferParty, we know a little more about the drugs in circulation. The report provided below is a summary of their findings over the last week. This report is primarily UK-focused and couldn’t possibly cover everything, so if you find something I’ve missed please contact me and I’ll get it updated.
The absence of a product from this list doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be there; you might have something more dangerous than anything listed, but it just hasn’t been reported yet. A vital tool for any drug user is a testkit, which allows you to identify roughly what is actually in your stash. You can find them here and if you need any help interpreting your results, DoseTest also offers a result resource here.
Final note: This report does not constitute medical advice. Some harm-reduction tips are offered, but if in doubt then for God’s sake, seek medical attention.
Standing Warnings
As the drug supply has degraded, our list of standing warnings has grown. Rather than give you the same information at the top of every report, you can find a dedicated article here and we’ll tell you here of any updates.
Warning: Ludicrously High Dose — 357mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Vienna
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: link
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: MDMA
Sold as: 4-MMC
Location: London
Advice: Ooohhhh-ho ho ho, how the tables have turned. In its heyday during the legal high boom, you could barely move for 4-MMC (better known as mephedrone) but since its criminalisation this has become a boutique drug, prized and difficult to find. Like MDMA it has been subject to a lot of substitution with other, lesser cathinones, but to see it swapped out for MDMA itself has a certain narrative satisfaction to it that I can’t help but enjoy a little.
The dosing on these two is pretty similar, all in all, so as long as you practice basic harm reduction protocols like starting low and going slow (and don’t have a massive mephedrone tolerance) you should notice a difference long before it becomes a major problem for you.
If you’d rather find out before you start taking it, which is the wiser option, then you can identify this substitution with a quick Marquis test. MDMA will turn your reagent purple/black, while mephedrone shouldn’t change the colour at all, instead causing it to fizz.
Source: https://wedinos.org/db/samples/ (Ref: W029114)
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: DMT and MDMA
Sold as: 2C-B
Location: London
Advice: Whoever came up with that “2C-B is a mix of MDMA and acid” thing has so much to answer for. It was likely just a rough way of describing the experience, but a whole generation of dipshits has taken it entirely literally and now even tried to develop on the idea.
Fortunately for the poor long-suffering noggin of whoever takes this, DMT isn’t orally active by itself. Oral preparations like ayahuasca rely on mixing in ingredients containing MAOIs, MonoAmine Oxidase Inhibitors, to prevent the brain from booting DMT molecules out faster than they can get in and let the brew work. So long as the user isn’t currently using a MAOI (while uncommon now, they have been historically used as antidepressants) and doesn’t decide to smoke this stuff, they’re more likely to just have a barely-perceptible MDMA experience rather than anything psychedelic.
If you’d rather find out before this all happens, you can do so with just your Marquis reagent. 2C-B has an unusual yellow-green response to Marquis, while this mix of DMT (orangey brown) and MDMA (purple/black) will give you a tarry brown-black mess that looks precisely as unappetising as it should.
Source: https://wedinos.org/db/samples/ (Ref: W029236)
DMT info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DMT
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: Ketamine
Sold as: 2C-B
Location: Manchester
Advice: AND THEN THERE’S THIS. It’s difficult to get much of a gauge on the risk profile of a substitution like this in principle (you’d be physically wavey enough to risk falling, but somewhat less trippy), but fortunately the pharmacology of ketamine saves us the worry. In addition to having a higher dose range than 2C-B at the best of times, ketamine is way less active when consumed orally so, unless you’re the kind of terrifying person who casually rails 2C-B, the risk of anything worse than a rotten taste in your mouth is reduced even further.
A sample like this is a perfect advertisement for the “cut your losses” principle — rather than consuming as much as ten times your planned dose just to end up feeling a little ketty, stop dosing and get testing to find out what you’re actually dealing with. As above, we can identify this with a simple Marquis test: 2C-B will turn yellow/green in response to the reagent, whereas ketamine won’t respond at all.
Source: https://wedinos.org/db/samples/ (Ref: W029122)
Ketamine info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Ketamine
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: Methamphetamine, n-ethylamphetamine and caffeine
Sold as: Adderall
Location: London
Advice: Without knowing the doses involved there really isn’t much to be said about this sample. The primary reason I’m including it is out of sheer fascination with the inclusion of n-ethylamphetamine, a drug with so little history of human use that the 20-year-old Bluelight thread I’ve optimistically put in the info section contains the only reference I can find to people who think they might have taken it. It is described as about half as potent as amphetamine, gram for gram, in the kind of tone that indicates the sentence started with a silent “I reckon”. A paper does seem to exist about it, published in a long-defunct Swiss medical journal in the 50s, but as far as I can tell it has been lost to time.
Without any further information, all I can recommend here is standard harm reduction practice: start low, go slow and be ready to cut your losses if it doesn’t do what it should. You can identify the presence of meth, at least, using Simon’s reagent: methamphetamine will turn it a dark blue colour, whereas amphetamine alone will turn it reddy-brown.
Source: https://wedinos.org/db/samples/ (Ref: W029233)
Methamphetamine info: link
N-ethylamphetamine “info”: link
Caffeine info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Caffeine
Warning: High Dose — 204–223mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Barcelona
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://energycontrol.org/analisis-de-sustancias/
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Extremely High Dose — 299mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Barcelona
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://energycontrol.org/analisis-de-sustancias/
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: High Dose — 220mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Barcelona
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://energycontrol.org/analisis-de-sustancias/
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: 2,3-dichlorophenylpiperazine
Sold as: MDMA
Location: Barcelona
Advice: This substance, “commonly” abbreviated to DCPP (although there isn’t any more info about that than there is about the full name), appears to be a relative of the potent stimulant mCPP. However, we don’t have much to compare them on other than structure and some early results indicating that DCPP is also active at dopamine receptors — this isn’t a lot to go on.
It’s possible that this was meant to be a precursor in the process of making something more established, like mCPP itself, but I haven’t seen any of that around lately either so this is purely guesswork on my part. Without knowing anything about dose ranges or specific risks, I also can’t provide much in the way of harm reduction advice.
Continuing the trend, we also don’t have much to go on when it comes to testing reagents. Other drugs in this structural family have no response to Marquis reagent though, so we can make the educated guess that even if this does, it probably won’t be the near-unique purple/black colour we’d expect from MDMA.
Source: https://energycontrol.org/analisis-de-sustancias/
DCPP info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3-Dichlorophenylpiperazine
Warning: High Dose — 206mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Bern
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://en.saferparty.ch/warnungen/tesla-mdma-261122-161122
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: High Dose — 201mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Zurich
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://en.saferparty.ch/warnungen/bitcoin-mdma-151122
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Extremely High Dose — 251mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Zurich
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://en.saferparty.ch/warnungen/louis-vuitton-mdma-121122
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
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