Foxy Methoxy

AKA

Foxy, Fox, Foxys, Trash, Dip foxy, Roxy, Yum Yum, Muffy, Excite-bike, Five, 5-MeO-Dipt, 5-methoxy-N,N-diisopropyltryptamine

foxy factoid Foxy was first made by scientist, Alexander Shulgin, who has personally tested over 200 home made psychedelic chemicals


(Tihkal by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin)

What is it?

Foxy is mainly used in the club scene. It is a man-made hallucinogenic drug that changes the way you see the world. It is similar to psilocybin and psilocin, the two active compounds that put the magic in magic mushrooms.

It comes in the form of a brownish-white powder that is usually packed into capsules or pressed into tablets, sometimes coloured. It can be swallowed, snorted or smoked and it tastes vile.

How does it make you feel?

Foxy is a mildly trippy or psychedelic experience. Colours look vivid, you become sensitive to touch and texture and sound can be amplified or distorted. In fact, all your senses get a boost.

Users get really buzzy and energetic, they are extra chatty and have big round eyes. Some people find that it increases their sex drive as well.

On the down side it can give you violent diarrhoea and sickness - not a pleasant thought given your senses are all heightened!

Like a lot of the psychedelic drugs, it can give you a bad trip which is a real freak-out. Once you've panicked on foxy, it is hard to calm down until the effects of the drug have worn off, and that takes 3-6 hours.

What are the health effects?

Foxy is a dose-dependent drug. That is, the effects get stronger the more you take. Too much Foxy can give you a really frightening and dangerous experience. If you do try it, or anything like it, take a very small amount to start with. You can build up a resistance to the effects of foxy very quickly. Then it takes more and more of it to get high. A few people have died after taking huge doses of foxy.

Foxy can give you a bad trip, or enhance any emotional or mental problems that you may be dealing with. Be careful.

As foxy is relatively new on the scene, the long-term risks are not well known.

The law

Foxy is a Class A hallucinogen. It is illegal to possess or supply it.

Written by Kate Roach

Last updated July 2007

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