Police officers arrested the individual and during a search of his person, seized a plastic bag containing one capsule filled with an off-white powder and several broken capsules. The suspect was also in possession of MDMA, cocaine, and marijuana. The drug 2C-B has appeared in Europe and Asia as well as in the United States. Since the man had no history of foreign travel or contact with foreigners, officials speculated that the man purchased the drug from a crew member of a ship. Authorities have not encountered 2C-B since this seizure.
Authorities believe the man purchased the drugs over the Internet.
Production Groups responsible for producing and distributing 2C-B are largely unknown to law enforcement. Though research for this Information Bulletin did not identify any recent instances of 2C-B production in the United States, law enforcement authorities in both the United Kingdom and Canada have arrested individuals for manufacturing this drug. In September 1996, Canadian authorities raided a drug laboratory outside Vancouver and arrested an individual wanted by U.S. law enforcement authorities for drug-related offenses for over 20 years. 2C-B is an illicit, synthetic, Schedule I hallucinogen. Users report that 2C-B's effects are more intense when it is snorted.