From what I read, the effect on the 5ht2a receptor is where the possible danger is at since it does have a high affinity there (duh for most people). Which of course can lead to problems, and vasoconstriction seems to be the most prominent one. However, the DOxs vary in strength there, and they hit a lot more receptors than that, including 5ht2b and c. It seems that DOPr is more towards the lower end than other DOxs concerning its affinity at the 5ht2a receptor, but that's assuming I read the chart right lol. They had a huge list including DOxs, FLYs, 2Cs I didn't recognize and some with weird acronyms that probably no one has taken. I also remember the article saying that there's more to just 5ht2a agonism alone and that how a substance affects all of the receptors can mean that 5ht2a agonism can be considered less dangerous than if it only hit that receptor. It seems to me like the law makers recognized that some of these substances would turn out to be "good" before the public got to them, and so they banned them beforehand, such as DOPr and some others. But they also studied many dangerous ones, including pmma, which seems to have also been studied for its possible danger before it started showing up in pills. Apparently a lot of these DOxs, phenylalkamines, ergoloids and tryptamines affect the serotonin receptor.
This is probably old news to all of the chemists and the like, but reading it from an uni article too was pretty eye opening. As in, all of ya were on the spot concerning such info. And as everyone has noted already, including in the paper I read too, a lot more studies need to be done on these RCs, especially in vivo.
Don't quote me verbatim though, since I didn't get the chance to read the whole thing (some papers are over 50 pages long, mostly data charts for some), but it certainly was the first time I saw a chart with the specific substances differentiated like that. I'll be going back @ the library some time soon and read more. From what I saw though, this seems to be the bulk of it and so much of the other info is known and available already. I found it so interesting that there were researchers studying DOPr long before this thread even existed, and apparently they cook up their own substances. I was just thinking, "ya bastards."
