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Citation pass on 2C-B history: add DEA Federal Register rules (59 FR 671, 60 FR 28718), Papaseit 2018 and Blok 2020 cites; correct the DEA-license account (TiHKAL Invasion), give both 2C-B scheduling dates
Cut uncitable claims from 2C-B history: remove Eroxan brand name and the South Africa / Medicines Control Council passage; keep only what Papaseit 2018 and the DEA rules support
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| history          = The compound that became 2C-B emerged from Shulgin's systematic exploration of the structure-activity relationships of mescaline analogs, a program he had begun in the mid-1960s. Shulgin's hypothesis was that modifications to the trimethoxyphenethylamine skeleton might yield compounds active at lower doses than mescaline's, with subjective profiles that varied in characteristic ways with the substituent at the 4-position of the phenyl ring. 2C-B, with bromine at the 4-position, was one of the most striking results. The first published description appeared in 1975 in Psychopharmacology Communications, the short-lived journal that was one of the few outlets willing to publish Shulgin's work in that era.<ref name="shulgin1975">Shulgin AT, Carter MF. Centrally active phenethylamines. Psychopharmacology Communications. 1975;1(1):93-98.</ref>
| history          = The compound that became 2C-B emerged from Shulgin's systematic exploration of the structure-activity relationships of mescaline analogs, a program he had begun in the mid-1960s. Shulgin's hypothesis was that modifications to the trimethoxyphenethylamine skeleton might yield compounds active at lower doses than mescaline's, with subjective profiles that varied in characteristic ways with the substituent at the 4-position of the phenyl ring. 2C-B, with bromine at the 4-position, was one of the most striking results. The first published description appeared in 1975 in Psychopharmacology Communications, the short-lived journal that was one of the few outlets willing to publish Shulgin's work in that era.<ref name="shulgin1975">Shulgin AT, Carter MF. Centrally active phenethylamines. Psychopharmacology Communications. 1975;1(1):93-98.</ref>


The compound entered psychotherapeutic underground practice in the late 1970s, where it gained a reputation as a potential adjunct to psychotherapy.<ref name="papaseit2018"/> Interest grew particularly after MDMA was placed in Schedule I, on an emergency basis in 1985 and permanently in 1988,<ref name="blok2020">Blok G. [From Adam to ecstacy; legal use of MDMA in the 1970s and 1980s]. Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie. 2020;62(8):702-706. PMID 32816299.</ref> removing that medicine from the limited circle of therapists who had been using it adjunctively. 2C-B was, for a window of years, legal in the United States and in much of Europe, and was used by some therapists as an MDMA-adjacent option for couples and individual work. Commercial sale began in the late 1980s under the brand names Eroxan and Nexus, marketed initially in pharmacies and smartshops as an aphrodisiac.<ref name="papaseit2018"/> The Nexus product became particularly identified with South Africa, where it had a brief and conspicuous run as a legal sex-positive medicine in the early 1990s before the Medicines Control Council scheduled it.
The compound entered psychotherapeutic underground practice in the late 1970s, where it gained a reputation as a potential adjunct to psychotherapy.<ref name="papaseit2018"/> Interest grew particularly after MDMA was placed in Schedule I, on an emergency basis in 1985 and permanently in 1988,<ref name="blok2020">Blok G. [From Adam to ecstacy; legal use of MDMA in the 1970s and 1980s]. Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie. 2020;62(8):702-706. PMID 32816299.</ref> removing that medicine from the limited circle of therapists who had been using it adjunctively. 2C-B remained legal in the United States until 1994,<ref name="fr1994"/> and during that period it was used by some therapists as an MDMA-adjacent option and sold commercially as an aphrodisiac under the brand name Nexus.<ref name="papaseit2018"/>


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