Dan in Oregon wrote:
My Aunt sent this to me on Facebook, I don’t know how to verify or even if it exists but I know you guys might want to talk about it if it is real. Molly has been a common drug lately & everyone is trying it. Pop 1 and your sweating? Let me explain why your sweating: Molly is a drug made up of cocaine, crack, ecstasy, meth & bath salt. It slows your heart rate 10x the normal limit & reeks havoc on your immune system with just one pill. Take two & it damages your brain without you even being able realize it. It becomes an addiction & soon a cry for help. By the fifth one you take, it starts killing your organs & preventing them from functioning as normal. It increases your chance of stroke & heart attack and can cause your lungs to stop functioning all together! It is a very powerful & VERY DANGEROUS drug! More harmful than crack itself. Many rappers are promoting it to involve young people in the manufacturing, selling, and usage of the drug. Spread the word to save lives of young people across the country! Show them the truth so they can make an informed & smart decision if they’re ever offered it.
Darryl replied:
Hi Dan,
Got your (or your aunt’s question) about “Molly”. There are a variety of important issues that need clarification to accurately reply to her questions and clarify her comments.
First, street name for drugs vary from era to era, fad to fad, state to state, town to town, neighborhood to neighborhood and even from cadre of friends to cadre of friends in the same neighborhood. The same street drug name can actually refer to completely different drugs from time to time even amongst the same cadre of friends. It can therefore be dangerous and not just incorrect to project which drug is actually being referred to in response to a street name like “Molly”. Further, street chemist and drug dealers often misrepresent whatever drug they are selling as a drug that is currently in fad or that they can get a higher price for than the one they have available to sell.
After providing you with that long opening disclaimer, note that the street drug name “Molly” has usually been used with stimulant drugs and the psycho-stimulants (stimulant with psychedelic properties) like methylene dioxy methamphetamine (MDMA) more commonly known by the street drug names of “Ecstasy” or “XTC” or just “X” or “E”. “Molly” is currently referred to by Rap Artists as a very pure crystalline form of MDMA. In the 1960’s era and even in some places in our current era, “Black Molly” is a street name for amphetamine sold in black capsules. You should also note that other substances like benzylpiperazine (BZP)
and 3-trifluromethylphenylpiperazine (TFMPP) either by them self alone or sometimes in combination with each other has been misrepresented and sold off as “Molly”.
This reminds me of another problem with street drugs. They rarely contain the actual drug or the drug unadulterated with other substances than the one being purchased by the consumer. Many studies of Ecstasy being sold at Raves demonstrated that only about 30% of the drugs sold as pure MDMA had only MDMA in it. Most had BZP, amphetamines or other substances mixed in with MDMA and many actually had no drug present at all. That being said, Molly is not usually a combination of cocaine, crack cocaine, ecstasy, meth and bath salts as your aunt states. However, I could see where methamphetamine and BZP or TFMPP could be adulterants in some street “Molly” pills and the latter two have been sold as bath salts so these may have been in “molly” but I have not yet seen cocaine or in it crack form present in Ecstasy pills nor I have seen all those substances in one single Ecstasy or Molly pill either.
Sweating, yes stimulants and psycho-stimulants can cause sweating especially when those under the influence of these substances are dancing or prancing around as they tend to do. All of these also cause a dangerous increase in body temperature and have been linked to death from that effect.
Slowing the heart rate 10x, I think is a mistake as she probably meant to say increasing the heart rate as all stimulants raise heart rate and blood pressure not lower it.
Damaging one’s immune system, has not been documented as far as I know. Indirect harm to the immune system by eating poorly or bad hygiene maybe but not direct damage to the immune system.
Brain damage, MDMA has been shown to damage serotonin brain cells and methamphetamine has demonstrated injury to dopamine brain cells but the severity would depend on the dosage and duration of use. Some damage could occur from just one or two doses but I’m not sure if just one or two time use causes any significant brain damage.
Addiction does occur prominently to methamphetamine and cocaine/crack but is rare with MDMA and other psycho-stimulants.
Killing body organs, I’m not sure if this will fully occur after 5 doses as many have taken much more than 5 doses with no apparent organ damages.
Increase chance of stroke and heart attack is indeed accurate and with long-term use the chance actually becomes more likely.
Lungs stop functioning, this can occur only if one overdoses and goes into a coma, not from regular use without coma.
Most of what is being said here is nothing but scare tactics and hype that might cause the experienced drug experimenter to discount the accurate information: Street Drugs are indeed dangerous and sometimes a lot more potent than pharmaceutical products. Also, they are rife with misrepresentations, adulterations, impurities, dosing anomalies and other issues that taking them is much like playing “Russian Roulette”. So, it would be best to avoid using “Molly” and all other illicit street drugs.
Hope this helps Dan,
Darryl