LSD Mutates Into NBOMe

What’s on that blotter? It is a darkly poetic indictment of the War on Drugs that LSD, the first synthetic psychedelic, demonized for decades and the target of extremely expensive law enforcement operations, looks to be far safer than its replacements. —Earth and Fire Erowid, in Erowid Extracts It is called 25I-NBOMe, or 2C-I-NBOMe, or SC-B-NBOMe, or 2C-I for short. It belongs to a group of drugs called the NBOMes, which are derived from phenethylamine-based drug families made infamous by Dr. Alexander Shulgin. The NBOMe part stands for N-Benzyl-Oxy-Methyl. After it was first synthesized in 2003, Purdue University did some research on the chemical structure of NBOMes, but it was not until 2010 that the drugs began to appear in the underground market.  25I-NBOMe, the most common variety, is strongly psychedelic, with vivid visual and sensory effects. It can also cause horrid trips, especially at higher doses, and like LSD, it can cause vasoconstriction in the form of elevated blood pressure. Earth and Fire Erowid, editors of the well-regarded Erowid drug information site, wrote a special report on the NBOMes for the July Erowid Extracts.  It is worth going over in some detail. The NBOMes were initially freebase powders, either snorted or held in the mouth, but the authors note that there is still confusion and uncertainty about the relative effectiveness of various forms of administration. In one case noted by Erowid, three friends obtained a bottle of ...
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