Hey ladies and gentleman, this is my first post. Great site.
I'm relatively new to psychedelics and 2C-I was my second research chemical tried, 2C-T-2 being my first. Let me just say that I think 2C-I fucking rocks, for my purposes, anyway.
And when I say "my purposes", let me explain a little more. I personally do not seek ego loss, personal development or spiritual development, nor do I wish to be whisked off in my mind to a mountaintop where God talks to me in the form of a raincloud.
Rather, I simply seek a recreational experience. More specifically, I wish to have a better time at social functions and hanging out with friends than I would in a sober state of mind. I want to laugh my ass off, remove any inhibitions that may be present, and maybe see some bright colors or walls breathing at the same time. Basically, I want to have a lot of fun.
To that end, 2C-I is fantastic. A buddy of mine and I tried it roughly a week ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The come up was roughly an hour, and for a couple more hours after that, all we could manage was side-splitting laughter. Everything was funny. Our moods were euphoric, to say the least. It was not possible, at the time, to have a negative thought.
Other aspects of the trip consisted of extreme time dilation, breathing walls, twisted size and depth perception, as well as tracers.
Thought MDMA it is not, 2C-I is something that could definitely be a "party" or "social" drug for gentlemen like myself. Fantastic drug, in my opinion.
On the issue of how 2C-I interacts with the CNS and what receptors it interacts with, I think it's important to keep these sorts of questions in perspective. And what I mean by that is, it is important to realize how complex these questions are. For instance, we're not even completely sure that molecules such as 2C-I exist in space in the same way as our molecular bonding theories (valence, orbital, etc.) say they do. For example, we're pretty sure that iondine exists as the fourth substituent on the ring, but we can't be 100% sure. Not with current technology because we can't actually observe the molecule.
With this in mind, it becomes extremely complex in trying to theorize how 2C-I biochemically interacts in the body.
I guess my main point in all of that is simply to say that all we have right now is theory; human theory that is imperfect and does not describe reality in complete correctness. So when building an argument as to what molecule interacts with what receptors, remember that we don't know for sure and you're just making a guess.