First time with 2C-B: starting at the low end on purpose

Setting & intention — An unhurried evening at home with my partner, who had experience with it and stayed at a lower dose. First time with any phenethylamine for me, so the plan was deliberately conservative: learn how this class feels before deciding anything about doses.

Preparation — Reagent-tested (Marquis and Mecke), doses weighed on a milligram scale rather than split by eye — the difference between doses in this range is a few milligrams, which no eyeball can judge. Light dinner well beforehand.

Timeline — Slow to start, over an hour, and I was glad we'd agreed in advance not to add more during the wait. What arrived was lighter-footed than I expected: bright color saturation, a strong pull toward music and conversation, body feeling somewhere between stimulated and warm. Peak lasted maybe two hours and stayed within what I could comfortably steer. Down by the five-hour mark.

Afterward — Slept normally, no hangover to speak of.

What I'd note — The slow onset is the trap for first-timers — the redose itch arrives exactly when patience matters most. I wouldn't have dosed in this range without a scale. Starting at the low end of the range cost me nothing: it was a full experience, and now I actually know my baseline instead of guessing from someone else's.