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(EDIT: it's possible that the terms ecstasy and molly may have changed meanings over time)
Nope, ecstasy means MDMA. I'm an old fart out of the scene for a long time, but that's what it meant for the first like decade or two of it's existence. I've heard that at some point it started getting cut with other cheaper drugs, which is part of why people generally don't call what you can get these days as ecstasy, they call it molly. I've heard that it's very hard to get pure ecstasy anymore, apparently the large majority of what's being sold these days is some random mix with ecstasy just being one ingredient in it.
I think you have that reversed. Molly is supposed to be just MDMA in crystal form while ecstasy is the pressed pill mixed with other stuff.
That's what I heard too and why I got confused in the first place. Maybe it's differing around the globe.
As an old head i can tell you, the word molly didn't even exist until 10+ years after ecstasy became a thing. "Ecstasy" meant MDMA. If you want you can look up articles from the time and you'll see. The meaning of the words may have switched over time, but for the first decade-ish of its existence on the scene the word "ecstasy" meant MDMA. Ecstasy originally was just MDMA, but I can imagine a situation in which the drug called ecstasy started being cut with other stuff, so people had to come up with a new word to refer to the original uncut substance again.