I received a sample of JWH-073 recently, and as a nightly pot-smoker I was very curious to see what it was like. My first trial was through vaporization a few days ago, and I was somewhat under-impressed. The best way I could describe it would be like somewhat generic feeling weed. The lack of weed taste while vaporizing bothered me more than I expected. Also, being a sativa smoker, I didn't find it as energising as I generally enjoy.
Last night I decided to give it another try; orally this time. I dropped 20mg into a capsule and filled the rest of the capsule with canola oil, before mixing it around and capping it up. At T+1:30, I was worried that it was a dud because I had eaten the capsule on an empty stomach and if it was weed, I would have been into it by then (usually 45m-90m). For JWH-073, however, I only got into full effects about 2 hours after eating the capsule. Effects peaked at ~T+3h and were gone by ~T+5h. The high was actually much better than I expected from my vaporisation trial, and I think I'll be consuming the rest of my JWH-073 this way. It also did a great job of bringing back some of my 4-AcO-DMT trip of the previous day; colors were brighter, etc. It was somewhat short-lived, but was a strong and enjoyable high. It's worth mentioning that it felt as if my physical coordination was slightly off, even though I'm not usually impaired to any noticeable extent with weed.
As I write this, it's the morning after, and I feel as if I have a hangover of sorts. Then again, it was a bit of wild weekend with 4-AcO-DMT, too much weed, too much alcohol and too much coffee, so maybe that's not the JWH's fault. From what I've read about JWH-018, it sounds like I'd probably enjoy that one even more, but I'm still left thinking that, as long as I can, I'll stick to weed.
BTW, is there a consensus on how good JWH-018 mixed with -073 is? Intuitively, it sounds like it would better replicate the complexity of effects of real weed...?