I would discount the story. MDMA is not directly toxic. People die from the side-effects - overheating (especially the brain) and dehydration. Do not take MDMA in pill form - the ingredients used to bind and cut the pure stuff can obviously be dangerous. I use pure crystals and cannot imagine any possibility that any diluted residue could add up to a dose, and if the concentrate were still in the wine it could be detected and it still wouldn't have much effect unless you had as much as half a glass.
davew On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, at 5:46 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Belgian woman dies after taking sip of MDMA-laced wine > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/belgian-woman-dies-after-taking-sip-of-mdma-laced-wine > > I've succumbed to fake news before. I can't find the article, but there > was some hype by some startup chip maker claiming some outrageous > computational speed. I fell for it. My optimism beat out my doubt. > Since that very embarrassing episode, before I ever even dreamed an > empty Celebrity like Trump would benefit from Russian disinformation > campaigns, I've been pretty suspicious of any news, especially anything > coming out of Silly Valley. > > Given that, I can't help but wonder about the above article. MDMA isn't > as safe as psilocybin or LSD. But it's relatively safe. Transporting > concentrated mdma in wine bottles seems like a risky move for a drug > trafficker. If it was concentrated enough to kill her after only a > "little sip", somebody's head should roll within the trafficker's value > chain. But, then again, anyone who combines "100% against drugs" with > the consumption of wine probably can't be trusted to be accurate about > how big a "sip" she really had. > > Of course, this is yet another reason to make your own beer/wine/cider > at your house ... thank you Jimmy Carter! Spirits are a different > thing, though. Back in PDX, a bunch of friends brought their homemade > whiskies, vodkas, and whatnot to a ping-pong party, happily trusting > each other to have done it right ... That's a big "No thank you, man" > for me. Give me the wisdom of the microbes over distillation tech any > day of the week. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
