Willy Myco, the mushroom wizard who taught all of YouTube how to grow psilocybes and cook LSD in their kitchen, just released the first “for dummies” style video on how to synthesize MDMA. And just in case that wasn’t wild enough on its own, Willy had to enter a war zone to get it done.

Last Fall, DoubleBlind reported on Willy, a leading mycologist, clandestine chemist, and psychedelic content creator, flying to Pakistan to film a video on how to synthesize LSD. For those who missed that story, Willy journeyed deep into South Asia to make the video because it was the only way to do so without ending up in federal prison for at least a decade. He traded lecture time at the University of Okara in Pakistan in exchange for a professor’s help with applying for and obtaining a license to conduct the synthesis “for research purposes only.”

When I spoke to Willy last October, he mentioned he was planning to film an MDMA synthesis video. Eight months later, it’s finally been filmed, edited, and posted to his Patreon.

The plan was for Willy and his team to fly to Dubai and catch a connecting flight to Pakistan. Then, they would film the synthesis over a two-day period at the University of Okara, performed by the illustrious Dr. Ali Altaf, the same professor who performed the LSD synthesis. After they brewed the MDMA in full legal purview, Willy and his team would high-tail it back to the land of the free and the home of police brutality.

That is not the way the trip would pan out, however.

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