2CB

AKA NEXUS
Love Your Body

2C-B was first synthesized from 2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde by Alexander Shulgin in 1974.  Informally put, 2CB is a cross between mescaline, MDMA, and speed, but not too much of each. A perfect combo that you can eat, drink but not sleep for 6 hours. Doesn’t wear you out. No hangover. There is increased body awareness of every kind, including skin sensitivity, heightened responsiveness to smells, tastes, and sexual stimulation.

The favorite phenylethylamine by most experienced psychonauts. 2C-B is 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. It’s the phenethylamine analogue of DOB. The 2C is because its had a 2-carbon chain sticking off of the phenyl ring (which is why its a phenethylamine instead of an amphetamine), and I assume the B is because of the Br atom in the 4 position.

Doses are 12-24mg, Duration is 4-8 hours. Doses of 100mg have been taken safely. 2C-B seems to be an extraordinarily colorful hallucingen similar to LSD — apparently somewhat analytical and dissasociative in higher doses or in those sensitive to those effects.

Quote from Ecstasy: The MDMA Story… [begins with a quotation from Alexander Shulgin]: 2C-B… is a tool… which ties the mental processes directly and constructively into the physical soma. The analgesic effects experienced with many, if not most, psychedelic drugs, are not present with 2C-B.

One experiences increased consciousness of physical health and energy, or, on the other hand, sharpened awareness of any body imbalance or discomfort. 2C-B allows for rich visual imagery and intesnse eyes- closed fantasy without the cluttering up of the mental field with too much elaboration… It is a superb tool for learning and growth.

[…] At high doses (above 30 mg), 2C-B is intensely hallucinogenic, and, like any major psychedelic, can be frightening for certain people. In small doses, it becomes a mild sensory enhancer but does not have the strongly empathogenic qualities that MDMA has.

Perhaps the best use that has been found for 2C-B is as a synergist with MDMA. When taken together, the MDMA pushes the non-specific 2C-B reaction in a more warm and emphathetic direction. Because 2C-B is a psychedelic drug, and therefore not fully predictable, its action can take the user in many different directions. But if the set and setting are right, 2C-B can enhance the desire for sexual orgasm during an MDMA experience. The synergy of the two substances can on occasion be a true aphrodisiac.

Shulgin writes in PiHKAL:
“The most successful reports have followed a program in which the two drugs are not used at the same time, nor even too closely spaced. It appears that the optimum time for the 2C-B is at, or just before, the final baseline recovery of the MDMA.”