DOSE:

70 mg

insufflated

2C-B

(powder / crystals)

BODY WEIGHT:

141 kg

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[Erowid Note: The dose described in this report is very high, potentially beyond Erowid's 'heavy' range, and could pose serious health risks or result in unwanted, extreme effects. Sometimes extremely high doses reported are errors rather than actual doses used.]
BACKGROUND

I had tried 2 c-b only once before - it is not the most common of hallucinogens in England, and, perhaps because I was on SSRIs, perhaps because I only took 20mg, it elicited little effect. Since then I have come off the SSRIs, and it was at least 6 weeks after I self-discontinued them that I decided to try 2 c-b again, after reading some of the reports on the interactions between SSRIs and Hallucinogens on a respected harm reduction website. In fact, I had been after LSD, or Magic mushrooms (two things that I have wanted to try for a very long time), but he said that he couldn't get those at present, and offered me the 2 c-b. After my other experience I thought, 'What the hell', and bought 70mg's of the fine powder.

SET AND SETTING

Admittedly, I have a history of depression, but it had been an intensely sunny day, and I was feeling “beamish” as Lewis Carol might have put it – I respond strongly to variations in sunlight levels (S.A.D). The “Set” was in good condition – I must also warn you that I go into a “trip” sometimes with the purpose of analyzing it rather than experiencing it, which may have some bearing upon it. The setting was comfortable and relaxed, with calming music (Mirror Mask sound track) – I was in my own bedroom, so I felt at home, if anything went seriously wrong I could go and wake a member of my family (I’m 17 and live at home).

METHOD

When I got it home I found it hard to believe that it was actually 70mg - it looked so small. Nonetheless, I lined up with a razor blade on top of a black plastic credit card (so I could see the powder clearly and would not lose any - I do this with any light colored powder). I just formed the whole lot into one line, and snorted it into one nostril via a straw.

EXPERIENCE

Immediately pain exploded in my left nostril, I dropped the straw, and started dancing around on one foot, clutching my nose, thinking 'oh, f*** b*ll*cks, sh*t, what have a I done to my nose, arrrghhhh....SO MUCH PAIN' etcetera. This dancing around removed that 10 second window when I could have removed my contact lenses (it's much harder to remove them when intoxicated, it took me a full 10 minutes to get them out when I was high). After I while I threw up into the sink, but by this time I had little sense to pain, and felt remarkably comfortable. I had little control over my limbs or extremities in any precise manner, my fingers were shaking uncontrollably and the usual mental confusion was occurring that I always get when I hit a massive rush - I began to use my usual technique of 'examining' the experience in an objective way, forcing myself to remember all the research I had done into 2 c-b, and talking down my confusion until I felt comfortable and relaxed.

As I did this I noticed increasing divergence of objects, lights and sound - sounds had a long, Doppler type echo - clicking my fingers, dropping a metallic object on to the porcelain sink, etc. Hard lines began to defract and spread out, so multiple lines were formed extending out and around the object, whilst minor light patterns began to play across objects in a pleasing manner, but not to the extent that I was unable to keep myself safe and was not in control of what I was doing. I tided up in the bathroom so as to prevent there being any evidence of what I had been doing, and went to lie in my bed to watch the colors. After a while I became quite bored with the hallucinatory effects – interesting at first, but so obviously synthetic that they did not provide me with any of the insights or visionary experiences that LSD and Magic Mushrooms are supposed to give. I did experience a feeling of comfortable warmth – not the sweaty heat that MDMA gives, but just a light, full body warmth. In terms of intoxication I was able to send several text messages to friends about an hour after insufflation – this demonstrates more control of my body than I should have expected after consuming over two times the recommended dose for an “intense” experience.

EVALUATION

I can understand why this could be a very popular drug at a rave, but, if one is looking for a hallucinogen, I would look elsewhere. The whole trip ended with me going to sleep some 4 hours after I insufflated it.

Exp Year: 2007	ExpID: 63215
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Jul 2, 2019	Views: 615
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