From my experience in the 90s rave scene the most common adulterants were DXM and speed since they're cheap and press more easily than meth. Acid was the drug of choice when I started going to parties in 94 but then ecstasy overtook it by a long shot and acid pretty much dried up.
I think RCs as adulterants like 2cb or similar phenethylamines started to creep into the scene in the early 2000s. Then cat was _huge_ mid 2000s until it and the other RCs started to get prohibited.
This is just what I picked up from people I knew doing these things btw. I was there for the music and girls.
This sort of subject matter is absolutely fascinating to me. The intersection of pharmacology, law, society and culture and the actual evolution and changes they all go through.
I feel like you could tie phases of electronic music to the drugs people were taking at the time.
I'm not suggesting lacing mdma with dxm would be out of the question, and maybe it was more common in the 90s, but it's my understanding that the biggest adulterant of mdma (besides meth) in 2000-2013 was methylone, which could be ordered online until recently, and is known for having a relatively similar profile to mdma, with relatively few side effects and a low risk profile (to the best of our current knowledge)
In the early 2000s I don't think it would have been methylone. MDEA was a big one that was similar (although not legal, was less scheduled and / or was semi legal at some point so there were big stockpiles of it. This was for the UK
I think RCs as adulterants like 2cb or similar phenethylamines started to creep into the scene in the early 2000s. Then cat was _huge_ mid 2000s until it and the other RCs started to get prohibited.
This is just what I picked up from people I knew doing these things btw. I was there for the music and girls.
This sort of subject matter is absolutely fascinating to me. The intersection of pharmacology, law, society and culture and the actual evolution and changes they all go through.
I feel like you could tie phases of electronic music to the drugs people were taking at the time.