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Agreed with previous posters that weekly cocaine use is not necessarily something physically toxic but certainly something to watch out for. Psychological dependency, because it doesn't have the hallmarks of physical addiction, is much easier to ignore for a longer period. But then I've always thought it exactly the sort of thing I don't want to take, in that it makes boring people aggressively boring and me into a rampant egomaniac. I think gourami's suggestion upthread is a fine one.
I've never taken hallucinogens and psychotropics - and it's important to remember that's what all the 2Cx and 2C-T-ns are - as a party/social thing, so I don't know how much advice I can give your friend, besides regularly tripping for the LOLZ probably means you need to look at other ways of having fun too.
Interesting that they're being sold in pills as I've only ever seen it in powdered form, which renders my first piece of advice pointless, but still - DO NOT SNORT. Not because there's any danger, just because you'll be rolling around on the floor in absolute agony for about twenty minutes wondering why Hunter S Thompson never mentioned this bit. Seriously.
It also probably renders my second piece of advice academic, but be aware of the dosage. You have more of a problem in pills, though I would be surprised if the dosage in either exceeded 20mg. All the 2Cxs act intensely, and when dealing directly with the material, it's advisable to have a mg scale to hand. In this case, just don't double drop.
I don't really get why people popularly describe it as like a combination of LSD and MDMA, since it lacks the slightly schizoid nature of acid thinking and people on 2CI have none of the fawning unctuousness of people on MDMA ('our love is soooo transcedent maaaan!!'). It does induce a certain languor, and though I never found its visual effects as strong as those of LSD, it certainly does have visual effects. For an intensely visual trip, psilocybin or 2C-T-7 would probably be better.
One thing it's probably best to be aware of is that all the 2Cs have some sort of effect on the digestive system, at least in my experience (this is something more widely common to phenethylamines anyway, but it's particularly noticeable here). 2CI is unlikely to send you running to the toilet to purge yourself of recent gustatory sins, but you might notice some stomach-churning along the way. From personal experience, I would not advise eating a soft cheese in the 24 hours afterwards, unless you have a particular fondness for porcelain.
With regard to the psychotropic effects of 2CI, I found it made my thinking processes very clear, and I spent an hour thinking about Hume's processes of cognition (cause, contiguity, resemblance) and how they were clearly at work in my head RIGHT NOW OMG, and then most of the rest of the trip dissecting my various ethical and eprsonal failures as a human being, and their root causes. YMMV, of course, someone else sat in the corner of the room giggling and then passed out. |
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