WHY DO PEOPLE USE DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE?

Dimethyltryptamine also known as Dimitri is commonly referred to as DMT.  It is a psychotropic drug that produces powerful hallucinations.  DMT has no approval for medical use in the US.  It is classified as a Schedule 1 drug on the Controlled Substances Act.

Dimethyltryptamine is present in many species of plants.  It  is either extracted from plants, or may also be produced synthetically in a laboratory.  Although it has been used since ancient times in many religious rituals and as in folk-medicinal treatments by the natives of South America, it was in the 1960’ that Dimethyltryptamine became popular as a substance of abuse.  When ingested orally, Dimethyltryptamine is not effective unless combined with some type of antidepressant drugs.  On the other hand, smoking it produces immediate and powerful effects for a short period of time.  For a slightly less powerful effect, it is also injected or snorted. 

Dimethyltryptamine is used for recreational purposes by those people who want to experience the psychedelic effects, but for a shorter period of time that those produced by LSD.  It is popularly referred to as the ‘Businessman’s special”.