DOSE:
20 mg
oral
2C-B
(capsule)
BODY WEIGHT:
160 lb
I have heard many great things about this compound. Everything from it being an ecstasy replacement in the 1990s, to it being an aphrodisiac, to it helping supplement MDMA psychotherapy sessions. I had heard it was Shulgin's favorite, and I think I can understand why it was. As usual, I took diligent notes. Most of all, I have heard it being described as similar to LSD and MDMA, but different from either.
Compounds most relevant I found to this review were things such as MDMA, MDA, LSD, 2C-I, and to some extent, 2C-E, as well as 25I-NBOMe and 25B-NBOMe.
0:00 - Before I take the capsule containing 20mg of 2C-B, I sample a small taste of the compound. Having tasted pure phenethylamine powder before, I know what taste to look for. The powder, a lighter grey-brown, and fairly clumpy, tasted very similar to pure phenethylamine hydrochloride. Nothing abnormal, if anything, it had a slightly sweeter taste than its parent backbone. I proceed to take the capsule after this short, impromptu, likely inaccurate litmus test.
0:30 - There was a slight warmth that had spread throughout my body. It was hard to discern any effects otherwise at this point. I'd consider it the first alert in a sense. There were some warm tingles here and there, first felt in my hands when I stretched, but it could be placebo. Maybe a slight increase in tactile sensations too, but again, hard to really tell at this point. +/-
0:50 - I feel slightly lethargic, and find myself yawning. I tend to do this on phenethylamine come-ups as well as 4-AcO-DMT, but this was unmistakably different for 4-AcO-DMT. It had none of the feelings of the tryptamine, and reminded me of times I was on 2C-I, 2C-E, and 2C-T-2. So far, so good - feels like a phenethylamine, tasted like a phenethylamine. I took a quick ten minute nap on the come-up, which I had only ever done with 2C-I before. +/- to +
1:00 - As I was laying down, after my nap, I wrote down the following: 'I am now an hour into the experience and I am STILL not sure if I am feeling it. Tingly? Yes. Clear-headed? Certainly. Am I supposed to not be clear-headed? I don't know. Are colors brighter? Tough to say. My pupils aren't even dilated at this point.'
But yet... when I stood up, and moved around, it suddenly started to hit. It was weird, as I have never really experienced that before. Just the sensation of going from being relatively sober to a + to ++ within the matter of 5 minutes was something worth noting. Now colors and lights are brighter. Now there are tracers. Now I am very warm and tingly.
1:10 - I recalled a time earlier when I had done 25B-NBOMe, and noted its effect on music. I hypothesized about a similarity between 2C-I and 25I-NBOMe as well in a previous report, in terms of their visuals, if the same held true between 25B and 2C-B. In many ways, I would say it was true... what 2C-B does for music is among one of the most interesting things about the compound that I found. To me, it was like LSD or MDMA, but uniquely different. Vocals were crisp and clear, bass was stronger and heavier and hit me more deeply. Hearing every part of the song clearly like LSD does, and feeling the groves of MDA/MDMA. Synaesthesia was also present around this time, where I could feel sounds, and this remained a central theme to the experience.
As all of that was happening with music, I noticed that time dilation also starts to increase. ++
1:30 - Effects are unmistakably unique. It shares a lot of similarity with 2C-I, where the comeup seems to take FOREVER the comeup seems to take FOREVER