Microgram: The Kentucky State Police Eastern Forensic Laboratory (Ashland, Kentucky) recently received four dark green tablets with a poorly defined butterfly logo [...] suspected MDMA [...]. The exhibits were acquired by the Big Sandy UNITE Drug Task Force (Prestonsburg, Kentucky) during the execution of separate search warrants in Allen and Saylersville (both in eastern Kentucky). Analysis of the butterfly tablets by GC/MS and GC/FID indicated a mixture of methamphetamine, MDMA, diphenhydramine, lidocaine, and caffeine (the ratio of methamphetamine to MDMA was 1.2 : 1). [...] Both tablets were approximately 9 millimeters in diameter, but were not weighed. These were the first submissions of these type tablets to the laboratory
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