Theta:
As Xorkoth referenced above, to my knowledge it's believed that some of the slow onset of the DOx molecules is related to them forming active metabolites that also have to slowly build up, and a scientific study has shown this to be the case in rats with DOM and its 2- and 5-demethyl metabolites (
https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/pdf/o-desmethyl-dom.behavioral.characterization.pdf); this being said, 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamines in general including the 2C-x group have been demonstrated to go through the same sorts of transformations, so again this doesn't seem to me like it could explain the entire situation. For what it's worth, I think the 2-3 hour estimation could still be underestimating it, as I can definitely still DOB climbing six hours in, and long after the psychedelic effects initially begin, and it and the other DOx molecules we've used do in fact go from more alike the more heavy and sedating and visionary DMT-like effects in the earlier hours to less visually complex but more stimulating and euphoric in the later hours too. With respect to the comparison, something that actually really interests me is the fact that, for example, I already have felt enough to explicitly describe 2C-C as being more similar to DMT and DOC being more similar to LSD in comparison to one another at least for me, in ways I could elaborate on if you care to hear it but just take my word for now, and 2C-C for me is definitely over within a matter of hours, whereas DOC begins to transform in not many more hours than that, but can easily be felt at least thirty hours after dosing in the way that a trailing LSD trip is felt for us, not as long but still similarly. I definitely think there's something to the idea, but of course it's my idea.
