Police Alert over Powerful New Ecstasy Drug (2c-i)

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Police Alert over Powerful New Ecstasy Drug

By Nick Allen, Crime Correspondent, PA News

All police forces have been alerted about a dangerous new type of ecstasy being smuggled into Britain.

The powerful pills. which are hallucinogenic like LSD, have turned up at raves and in nightclubs across the country over the last six months after being taken by unsuspecting clubbers.

An assessment of the dangers posed by the ecstasy-type substance 2C-i, has been issued to police forces by the National Criminal Intelligence Service.

It follows seizures of a total of 125 of the small white pills, which are marked with an “i“, on nine occasions between May and August.

The largest seizure of 65 tablets was at this summer’s Glastonbury festival and others were found in Brighton, Wales, Bedfordshire and Edinburgh.

The substance, which is classified as a Class A drug in the UK, was only found for the first time here this year and is believed to have arrived from European countries, possibly Denmark.

With the price of ecstasy having plunged to as little as £1 a pill, 2C-i is attractive to dealers because it can fetch up to £10 per tablet.

An NCIS source said: “People who become involved in synthetic drugs risk their health simply because there is no regulation of how the drugs are manufactured.

“Users may not be aware of the side-effects of commonly-used ecstasy variants with potentially tragic consequences.

“Our assessment is intended to increase awareness amongst police officers and other law enforcement agencies that this drug is starting to appear on the UK club scene.

“There is a diverse range of active drugs that is made into tablets and sold as ‘ecstasy’.

“Ecstasy is therefore best understood as a type of drug rather than a specific chemical compound – the most common ecstasy-type substance is MDMA but ecstasy tablets may contain other substances found either on their own or in combination with other active drugs.”

A police source said: “The chemicals to make this are available and it can be made pretty much anywhere.

“According to people who have taken it, it’s very strong and very powerful.

“If someone unwittingly takes this drug to go clubbing and then starts hallucinating and thinking they can fly then, obviously, that could end badly.”
 
All police forces have been alerted about a dangerous new type of ecstasy being smuggled into Britain.
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i guess the word 'ecstasy' is now going to be as widely abused as 'dope.'
 
^^^

I believe there already is blanket scheduling in UK where this article is from. 2c-i pills have been siezed in the US too though as indicated by a recent DEA microgram.
 
^^Very interesting, I was vaguely aware of a large scheduling in the UK, however I was unaware it was as unspecific as 'phenyltyhlamines' and was something more akin to the US's 'analouge act.'

I'll amend my thought then, I wonder if the US will ever massly schedule tryp's and phens. I would venture to guess that the answer could be yes, and with the 'interesting' climate regarding the drug war the US it may be sooner than people think.

Governments have rarely tolerated gray markets for long without quickly trying to regain their control.
 
a dangerous new type of ecstasy
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yah thats fucked up. first of all, any of the 2-Cx peneths are nothing like mdma. Perhaps you can enter a "loved up" and very speedy zone, and they are easier on the psyche than tryptamines, BUT - they are psychedellics none the less. No amount of mdma will make you trip out like a dose of a 2-Cxx. I personally have never tried 2-CI specifically, but from what I hear they all share relative similarities. Regardless, putting the word ecstasy in that sentence is about as dumbening as saying, "I just ate a new type of car pizza." Wtf does that mean?

Yah its like they are going to use the word ecstasy as a slang for all drugs now, kinda like calling everything dope.

Also, the 2-Cxx drugs have been around for decades. Dumbass. All articles like this are going to do is tell people not "in the know" about them, and create a new demand for exotic psychedellics. How fucking dumb can you be?
 
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“Ecstasy is therefore best understood as a type of drug rather than a specific chemical compound – the most common ecstasy-type substance is MDMA but ecstasy tablets may contain other substances found either on their own or in combination with other active drugs.”
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This is why ecstasy should be legal, then they can regulate.
 
^^^
Even more critical, they should legalize it so that we have unlimited access to clean, high grade molly once again. :D

That alone is reason enough in my book.
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does my xtc test kit pick up on this shit? no doubt it'll end up here soon enough and i dont want to be thinking im about to roll on E and go tripping?
 
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All police forces have been alerted about a dangerous new type of ecstasy being smuggled into Britain.

The powerful pills. which are hallucinogenic like LSD
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A dangerous type of ecstasy causing hallucinations like LSD? It will surely destroy us all.
 
MattPD said:
^^Very interesting, I was vaguely aware of a large scheduling in the UK, however I was unaware it was as unspecific as 'phenyltyhlamines' and was something more akin to the US's 'analouge act.'

I'll amend my thought then, I wonder if the US will ever massly schedule tryp's and phens. I would venture to guess that the answer could be yes, and with the 'interesting' climate regarding the drug war the US it may be sooner than people think.

Governments have rarely tolerated gray markets for long without quickly trying to regain their control.
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Regarding phenethylamines, as of Febuary 2002 every single PEA described in PiHKAl as well as many variations not listed in PiHKAL are illegal in the UK because of the following additions to the law. A new catch-all phenethylamine clause which covers most known active PEA's. In particular this clause covers mescaline analogues, DOx, 2C-x, 2C-T-x, MMDA analogues, MDMA analogues TMA's and many others as well. the clause is:

"any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in sub-paragraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine, alpha-methylphenethylamine, an N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, alpha-ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl-alpha-ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substitutents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents;"

The law includes a systematic explicit addition of every single PEA's found in PiHKAL that isn't covered by the aforementioned clause on the list of class A drugs.

In particular:

1. PEA substituted on the nitrogen of the sidechain with a subsituent other than alkyl (FLEA & the HOTs, MDAL, etc...)
2. PEA's substituted on the beta carbon (all the BOx,etc...)
3. PEA's with divalent substituents on the benzene ring (F-22, 2C-G-x,etc...)
4. Phentermine derivates

This revision has been skillfully designed so that not a single item of PiHKAL can escape to the law. In any case all the PEAs on the RC market are all covered by the catch all clause.
 
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I believe there already is blanket scheduling in UK where this article is from. 2c-i pills have been siezed in the US too though as indicated by a recent DEA microgram.
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Absolutely correct, 2C-I is class A in the UK. The 2C-I pills from the recent Microgram which you refer to were capsules, not tablets, however I'm fairly certain that the Microgram has reported on 2C-I tablets at least once in the past.
 
MattPD said:
^^Very interesting, I was vaguely aware of a large scheduling in the UK, however I was unaware it was as unspecific as 'phenyltyhlamines' and was something more akin to the US's 'analouge act.'
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There is what the government calls a "catch-all clause", as described above, but really it's more of a "catch most". Methylone for example falls outside it, the rationale for that can be found here, described by fastandbulbous:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showpost.php?p=2742366&postcount=12

fastandbulbous said:
All of the compounds in PIHKAL that fell outside the phenethylamine derivatives para. were specifically scheduled about 2 years ago, to prevent anyone from trying to trip legally; the items were blanket scheduled, as even ones labelled inactive by shulgin were included. Now, one of the ones specifically named as being outside the derivs para was BODH, which is 4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxy-beta-hydroxyphenethylamine.

So by that reasoning, any variation from phenethylamine (amphetamine or alpha-ethylphenethylamine), such as a beta-hydroxyphenethylamine, isn't specifically covered by that paragraph. So if a beta-hydroxyphenethylamine is outside the act, then a beta-keto group (which is what methylone has) is also outside the act. This also means that any ring substituted cathinone or methcathinone derivative is outside the act, should anyone come across them, as they are not specifically named.
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I dunno about anyone else, but I've never gotten any of the MDMA feelings when I'm tripping off 2-ci....That's fucking stupid of them to even say that. If anything, it's like acid, not x....And I damn sure never thought I could fly....What a crock of shit.
 
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