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2c-i - first time - My first experience: profound!

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My first 2c-i experience: profound!

Yesterday I went to the Grassroots Festival in upstate New York. While looking for some shrooms, I had a group of really friendly dudes say to me, "Oh buddy, I've got something better than shrooms, and cheaper too!"

It was called mescaline, synthetic mescaline, 2c-i, "an analogue of 2c-i", and "2c-something" by various people I met (it was ALL OVER the place, come to find out, on little tabs with pictures of Max Headroom.), so I'm not sure exactly what it was I put in my body.

All in all I give it a very good review. Many more pluses than minuses. It didn't have any effects I've never gotten before from other drugs, but just not in that combination. I'd almost call it a good "sampler platter" of the most common recreational drugs:

** LIKE E, this drug was profound. I definitely hadn't bargained on an experience with such a level of profundity. This is a two edged sword. Also like e, I got nystagmus and wicked trails, strange effects with my jaw, and a "chemicaled up" feeling. No rushes, though.
** LIKE ALCOHOL, I hat shit for coordination and rhythm, and tended to get very sloppy about leaving things lying places. I was very socially disinhibited, but it was definitely more of an alcohol-like disinhibition than what you get from e. That is to say, I felt confident, but I came off fucked, and a lot of my flaws were showing.
** LIKE SHROOMS, I hallucinated. The visuals were very manageable, never scary. Things breathing and pulsating, mistaking common objects for other common objects, etc. Not a whole lot of geometric patterns, though. Nature kicked ASS! Unilke with shrooms, I had no edgy comeup, no tightening of my diaphragm, and best of all, no problems with language and speaking (See my other thread about this). I found the body load less harsh than e, but harsher than shrooms.
** LIKE POT, let's just say this drug put me in an inanely silly mood for hours, cracking up about odd thoughts I'd have.
** LIKE K, I had the slightly-above-my-body floaty feeling, and had trouble judging height and distance.

All in all, I'm not sure 2c-i / mescaline is a drug I ought to be using very frequently. I have a hunch it's not healthy just because of how chemicaled up I still feel on the comedown. I post loaded with PLENTY of anti-oxidants (vitamins C, and E, 200mg Alpha-lipoic-acid), and I still feel full of chemicals.

It will be a drug I'd use again, though, for sure.
 
raaaar!
it bugs me when people say "mescaline" or "synthetic mescaline" for something that is clearly not. and when people/dealers have no idea what it is they have yet give it out anyway.
but still, glad to know you had a good experience
 
^^^ Yeah. The thing that got my goat was how they hawked it as "mescaline", then once I had a tab on my tongue, they admitted it was actually 2c-i.

DOOD! Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. If it's actually 2c-i, don't fucking tell me it's mescaline. There's a big. fucking. difference.
 
It's probably DOI or another psychedelic amphetamine rather than 2c-i. It's hard to fit a full dose of 2c-i into a blotter.

more threads on the max headrooms:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=212642&r=7
http://www.bluelight.ru/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29733&password=&sort=1&cat=503&page=1

DOI: http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=9326

DOI would be an ideal chemical because it's cheap to make (probably about $0.16 or less a dose if made in bulk), very potent, and unscheduled in many places... Plus a lot of people seem to enjoy the 2 carbon homologue 2c-i.
 
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Very helpful links, nuke. That tab of Max Headroom was exactly what I took. Apparently a big batch of this is making its way across the northeastern US, hawked as "mescaline" (I wish).

Dr. Shulgin's description of 3.5mg of DOI sounded about right to me. How safe / neurotoxic is this compound?
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
How safe / neurotoxic is this compound?

Due to the research status of this chemical, many things are still unknown. Anecdotal evidence shows that it is pretty much as risky as other phenethylamine psychedelics. Take this with a giant grain of salt, though. Everytime a user takes a research chemical, he is subjugating his body to a wide range of unknowns.

Here's some info: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/2ci/2ci_info1.shtml
 
DOI lasts an extremely long time - at a 3.5 mg dose it probably would have been more than a 24 hour trip, some people report multiple days. It's a pretty subtle trip, although definitely present, but I dont think your social and physical skills would have been affected much by it. Could've been though, the drug hasn't really been researched too much.


Edit: Oh yeah, did you have a weird body load while on it? Its more when youre coming down - somewhat of an unpleasant 'feeling' of anxiety.. but not really true anxiousness.. just an 'uppity' feeling in the physical sense. 2C-I has this for most people in my experience, although some people dont mind the feeling at all. While DOI is pretty light on the body and even relaxing/good feeling.
 
it will be interesting to read your conclusions once you try positively identified 2ci
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Psilo: I did have a weird feeling throught the entire trip, which I an only describe as the "well... maybe" feeling, if this makes any sense. That is to say, every positive emotion I felt on this drug was tinged with a sense of uncertainty or impermanence. I wasn't quite sure what thoughts to trust, even the ones that I'd never question while sober. This is the core of what made this drug a bona-fide mind opening experience, I feel.

The only time I felt truly anxious, in a too-much-caffeine sort of way, was when I attempted to drive a car at night on this drug. That definitely did not fly. Luckily I was able to make it to Ithaca, 10 miles away, to crash at my brother's house.
 
seems similiar to my mushroom trips the uncertainty of what you want to do. did you set any goal that you wanted to accomplish on the trip? did you reach it? also i wanted to ask if you could give examples of what "flaws" were shown in the trip. Nice report, thanks.
 
i encountered this same blotter at all good, being sold under the same names.... took 2 tabs had a long lasting trip that had me confused as hell... visually interesting but not as much as lsd, at times i felt euphoria similar to mdma, had a wierd energy as well, i couldnt sleep after it either... my trip report is pretty half assed.... its already been link to on this page, maybe i should update it with alot more detail
 
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