actually, phreex, i think it was a case of both an "unsafe supplier" and an "unsafe user" making a fatal error with an "unsafe drug". there are lots of hallucinogens that cannot kill you except in very high dosages & this drug can do it with a very small dosage when handled incorrectly.
my friend told the person who supplied us that he felt he could handle snorting it, but i think the person who supplied it also used poor judgement in weighing out the amount provided. though my recollection is not exact, i also recall mention of the possiblity of some 2CT2 being mixed in with the 2CT7. while the dosage he took was weighed to 30mg, there was "a little extra" tacked on to the end that I didn't see weighed out, though it may well have been weighed. in retrospect, i think the supplier is now aware of the error of their judgement, unfortunately too late to save my friend.
as hard as it may seem to believe, my friend who died was, in most cases, exceptionally well-informed as to the power of the drugs he ingested. he was very well-read, not only about most any hallucinogen or euphoric available, but also a bright student. though he tended to take great risks with other hallucinogens on a regular basis i question his intentions in taking such a high dosage, myself.
to be quite honest with you, i think the only reason he snorted such a heavy dosage was because the person providing it may have forgotten the differential between the dosages for insuffulation and eating the drug, compounded by my friend's insistence that he could handle his drugs well.
the official toxicology report mentions nothing about the 2CT7, in spite of the fact that the doctors and the police were made 100% aware of what he had taken with handouts from erowid and interviews with others who saw him snort the stuff. they focused only on the ecstasy in his system, which was eaten a full 10 hours prior to taking the 2CT7. the MDMA, which tested as such with an ez-test kit, could have exacerbated the circumstances along with a mini-thin (ephedrine) eaten at 11pm prior. the actual 2ct7 was snorted at around 2:30am.
i don't understand why the medical examiner has failed to conclude what was already a known fact. they are so deeply involved in witch hunting the ecstasy that they have forgotten about the drug that killed him. whats worse is that 2CT7 is an unscheduled hallucinogen and is legal to own and sell in the united states. that's going to change, i think (and hope).
sadly, another girl also died the night before my friend did after purchasing what she apparently, at least, thought was ecstasy. she died in much the same way, though the two cases are not linked.
[This message has been edited by shiney (edited 09 April 2001).]
