Time period: Beginning of Summer 1995
Location: Amsterdam
I was glad the work with the Cirque Du Solei was finished, I was getting tired of such menial work but after 4 weeks the payoff was satisfactory. With this paycheck, plus what I still had in savings was just enough to get one-way airline tickets to New York and 500 ecstasy pills. I called Mike to verify if he was still down to help me sell the ecstasy, when he said yes I paid a visit to one of my local Amsterdam ecstasy dealers.
In Amsterdam there are hundreds of street dealers selling every variety of drug there is. Dealing with this class of dealer isn't a good idea, however they are helpful with providing higher level dealers. I met "Josh" this way, for a long time Josh would be my go-to guy when I wanted to buy or sell drugs in Amsterdam.
Josh was a Dutch kid, about 20 or so who liked to take drugs. Every time we met he was always high, drunk or both. This was never a problem for me because I certainly was no Saint, and Josh was 100 percent reliable in whatever state of inebriation he was in. Josh admitted to me that he took ecstasy pills everyday.
Josh was easy to find, he lived just a few streets away from the hostel I was working in and he came in often to drink pints of beers and sell drugs to the backpackers. I waited for him to come around so that I could ask him about buying the 500 ecstasy pills. It was the usual time when Josh arrived to the hostel, I invited him to a booth in the back of the bar for a private talk.
Josh had some really nice looking ecstasy pills on him, a new batch of pink pills with the Playboy bunny logo on it. These "Playboys" would soon become famous for being the best ecstasy ever, ever since the dove stamped pills the "Doves". When I told Josh that I was looking to buy 500 ecstasy pills he gave me 2 Playboys as a sample and said he would charge me 5 Guilders apiece, or about 3 dollars each. I did the math and an investment of $1500 dollars for the ecstasy in Amsterdam meant that its potential value in New York was $15,000 dollars, a tenfold profit if each pill was sold for the maximum retail value of the $30 dollars apiece.
Since I wanted to act fast, I decided to test the pink Playboy ecstasy by taking it on the spot. It was around 3 in the afternoon during the middle of the week, but in Amsterdam it doesn't matter. Josh was amused that I took the pill so soon that he too took one, while inviting the two new backpacker girls sitting next to us to join. The girls were from Australia and cool as hell, at the sight of the pills in Josh's hands they knowingly glanced at each other and took an ecstasy pill each. Things were getting interesting.
After about 20 minutes I started to feel my eyes rolling backwards as the rush of the MDMA flooded my body. I was overcome with both excitation and tranquility, I wanted to get out and walk around. Judging by my company sitting with me, I could see I was in good company because they were looking really fucked up...fucked up in the good way I was feeling.
The girls were staying at my hostel so they dropped their gear off in their room, we then all walked to the corner pub where they were playing some good techno music. We drank beer after beer and it didn't matter, the alcoholic buzz was nice but the ecstasy ruled. I felt so good I made an order for 500 pink Playboys the next day when we were sober. To my surprise the Australian girls bought 10 for themselves, since they were worth about $50 dollars apiece in Australia.
That evening, the four of us stayed up all night in Voondlepark drinking and tripping, it was one of my greatest ecstasy experiences of my life. I was relatively new to the drug and the pink Playboys at the time were highly loaded with good ol' pure MDMA.
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