2C-B Experience, Upsides and Downsides

I acquired 100mg of 2C-B from the sTORe recently. My first trial run was with two friends and we took 20mg each.

The comeup was a little rough, with my hand muscles being clamped down and lots of jittery shivers and distractedness that is expected with most psychedelics. The comeup lasted longer than expected, well into the 1:30-1:45 range. After a certain point, however, my friends and I descended into giggle fits and were taken aback by how ridiculous every situation seemed to be. It is a very social drug. Unlike other psychedelics, it is easy to "sober up" for 10 seconds and make eye contact and conversation with someone. Losing your train of though is very easy, however. Do NOT take this as an excuse to take 2C-b around parents. You are still mega fucked up and can't handle much of a conversation without laughing or trailing off.

The experience was fun, but somewhat underwhelming. UNTIL we smoked some weed. This is where everything became similar to the effects of MDMA, with a rush of euphoria, childlike wonder and the desire to explore for patterns and fun things to look at.

My second trial was alone and with 30mg. The comeup was waaay rougher, probably because of the dose and because I had no one to distract me. I had that same feeling of thinking that its not worth it and that 2C-b sucks. However, after the visuals kicked in, the body load was put into the background. I had breathing, pulsing, almost shrooms-like visuals. If one is doing it for the visuals, I would advise to take a different chemical. They don't last all that long and they are tough to enjoy with the heavy body load.

I combined the 30mg with some weed and then later some nitrous. This is easily the most fucked up I've ever been. I almost couldn't understand english, and I literally became the plot of the Rick and Morty episode I was watching. When surrounded with silence, I was able to "hear" songs simply by remembering them. They were almost note-for-note accurate. I was taking notes on what I felt and some sentences that made perfect sense in the moment are "why don't they have capital numbers?" and "what every is going on this makes no senses". I had thought loops like crazy, however I found that writing the conclusions down helped me move on to another train of thought.

While I wouldn't recommend taking 2C-b in a bad set and setting or in a bad mood, I found that avoiding negative trains of thought is fairly easy. It's kind of a byproduct of the desire to do something new every 15 seconds, where you start off on that track and then get distracted with something else. Just find something new to think about and then you cannot even remember what was bumming you out.

TL:DR 20mg is a good starting dose. Visuals are meh until weed is smoked. Comeup may seem not worth it, but wait until the plateau and you will have lots of fun. 30mg is a little too rough and overwhelming to be fully enjoyed at the peak. If I were to do it again, I would take 25mg. Definitely invest in a milligram scale or do volumetric dosing (does this work with 2C-b?). The difference in dosage is waaay too close to eyeball.

Edit: I forgot to add that my opinion on 2C-b is that it would be the perfect psychedelic/empathogen if it weren't for the body load. The body load is totally worth it, but I would become an addict if it didn't exist.

Higher doses doesn't really correspond to better effects. While I haven't dabbled in the 40mg+ range, if I wanted to take that much, I would take 25mg and then 15mg as a booster/extender dose a few hours later.