UK- Teenager in warning against legal highs after death of best friend...(NBOMB-2CE?)

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Teenager in warning against legal highs after death of best friend Bradley Cockel of Braintree
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Essex Chronicle

June 09, 2014
By Chris Dyer

With reader comments

A TEENAGER has warned people to stay away from drugs after a rare hallucinogenic drug killed his best friend. Bradley Cockel, 19, of Beatty Gardens, Braintree, died at a friend's flat in Bramble Court, Witham, after taking the then legal substance known as 2CE, which has properties similar to LSD and ecstasy. But as the drugs started to take effect Bradley started to convulse and his friends were not able to help him due to the hallucinogenic effects of the drugs on their own bodies. One of them eventually managed to successfully call an ambulance, but when it arrived he was already dead.
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"The next thing I remember I was in a hospital bed," adding he did not know who successfully made the call to the ambulance.

Mr Cockel's two friends, who took a similar substance but with a slightly different make-up, were taken to Broomfield Hospital for treatment and released the next day. Area coroner, Eleanor McGann, who presided over the inquest held at County Hall in Chelmsford on Wednesday, said that as a result of the evidence given she would recommend to the government that 2CE is made illegal. "I have heard all the evidence about this designer drug and it is quite clear that people who take it are not in control and that although it was legal at the time, it has subsequently caused deaths, it is a completely horrendous drug" she said. "To try and prevent further deaths I will recommend in my report to the Ministry of Justice that this drug and all its combinations should be made fully and properly illegal."
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At the time police thought the drug came from "a crude batch" of LSD, but at the inquest both Mrs McGann, and DI Martin Pasmore, who investigated the case, told the court that 2CE was legal in April 2013, but has since been put under a government protection order, with the intention of it being made completely illegal.

Mrs McGann recorded a verdict of death caused by a drug overdose for Mr Cockel.
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I know it gets said all the time but I think "I have heard all the evidence about this designer drug and it is quite clear that people who take it are not in control and that although it was legal at the time, it has subsequently caused deaths, it is a completely horrendous drug" applies to alcohol pretty perfectly.
 
I thought 2ce was relatively safe? Obv just about anything can be deadly in excess even water...I wonder if they did a ton screen to make sure it was 2ce, from what I hear is enjoyable if that's your thing. I do however think all the nboms should be destroyed. Since the stuff is so amazingly potent and you can order grams of the stuff most importantly idiots get their hands on it try and make blotters that end up with hot spots on a section and ppl who are solo jardcore take a ten strip and die. That shit belongs back in the lab.
 
2CE has been illegal since the 90s in the UK when the entire contents of PIKAL was quietly, arbitrarily banned on a whim just in case anyone tried any of them and enjoyed it. So if they did take 2CE then it certainly wasn't a "legal high" at that time.

Most likely this was 25E-NBOMe or similar.
 
I believe that 2c-e is quite safe (relatively speaking, of course).
I base my opinion on Erowid reports, including some reports of massive overdoses, which turned out to be non-lethal and have few or no lasting effects.
So, as edgarshade said, this probably wasn't 2c-e.
 
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