2g of coca feeling overwhelming must've been some heady shit, my highest dose of coca tea was 125g. It led to some later ruckus as far as compulsively dosing a bunch of ephedra sinica and psilocybin containing fungi, a very long but fun day being Portland's local weirdo goosestep powerwalking through town with nowhere to be and nothing to do.
The 2g chewed coca leaf tea wasn't overwhelming at all, it just felt like more than necessary most of the time. I didn't really use coca to get high. I preferred weed and psychedelics for that. I mostly used coca to increase wakefulness, relieve some of the burden of heavy labor, and/or increase mental concentration. I liked how chewed coca gave full spectrum stimulant effects but faded quickly enough to not get in the way of things or cause health problems. It kept me awake for about 4 hours, and then I could sleep if I wanted. I didn't crash and continued to feel mild stimulation and increased wakefulness until at least T+7, or else I could re-dose at T+4 hours, which produced a slightly stronger peak than the first dose. A chew suppressed by appetite for about 2 hours, so I could easily eat before re-dosing if I wanted. I also drank plenty of brewed coca tea, often in combination with chewing. The effects were similar to chewed between T+4 to T+7, except lasting much longer.
Anyway, I only used coca regularly for a couple years or so, during part of which I was working as a commercial vehicle driver on difficult schedules including some split shifts. I could chew 1g to get me through the 4 hours, then drive home and sleep (or just sleep in my car), wake up and chew another 1g and/or drink 2-4g of tea to get moving again for the second part of the split shift. I tended to use it on work days and then stayed off it on the weekends without any crashes or withdrawals. After those two years, I started school full-time and reached a point where I didn't really feel like I needed stims to stay awake. I could pull an all-nighter studying no problem without taking anything. I did use coca for a handful of difficult exams which worked well, whereas caffeine in any amount felt too uncontrolled and actually decreased my performance.
The stimulation of DOC reminded me more of LSD, whereas DOB and DOM reminded me more of mescaline. DOC's stimulation is less intense than either of the other two, and DOC feels easier to "steer" a certain direction, if that makes sense to the other psychedelic users out there.
Interesting. I've never had any problem with stimulation from either mescaline or LSD including fairly big doses. I assume these are very different from methamphetamine though, assuming DOM is more like meth than mescaline. I find most psychedelic phenethylamines I've tried to be stimulating including many favorites like 2C-E and 2C-T-2. One I used a lot of during the coca days was 2C-I, which definitely felt a lot more stimulating than the coca I was using.
That said, at least one PIHKAL comment (maybe by Shulgin) suggests that the DOX lack certain graces that the 2C-X tend to have. It seems like a lot of other people out there echo these sentiments, but it's not quite clear to me where the differences lie. Are DOX more stimulating than 2C-X, including stuff like 2C-I? Or does the stimulation have a certain harsh quality to it? I guess I'll have to make up my own mind after I get around to trying them. Opinions vary widely on psychedelics anyway.
As far as the drug wearing off, I'd argue that DOx's in general have a kind of asymptotic arc of tapering down but never quite leaving, it reminds me a lot of other more impactful psychedelics in that way. I came back from the trip but I'm never quite the same due to the way I grew over the experience, you know?
Maybe. I mean ayahuasca+DMT can be profoundly impactful to me, yet its primary effects tend to fade very rapidly once it starts wearing off. Of course pretty much all psychedelics leave me with a long-lasting afterglow, but that is quite distinct from the primary effects. I don't really know what happened with that mini DOC dose, so I guess I'll just have to try it again to find out if it was just a fluke or something. I do have diazepam handy if need be.
