I've heard people talk about using small amounts of alcohol to calm the nerves before the DMT experience.
In my personal experience though, alcohol makes DMT in particular, less & less active, the more alcohol is involved.
Like the opposite effect MAOI's have. I've seen this in myself & a number of close friends. We don't mix the two anymore around here.
I personally think alcohol & psychedelics are like oil & water!!
To each his own though...
In fact, I have shared some of my spice with a couple of friends who where buzzed-to-drunk a few times & at least with smoked DMT, the effects are diminished a lot, when taken while intoxicated with alcohol.
Like to the point of my pal who had drank like 3-5 beers over a few hours, could not get any stronger effects than faint colors & movement in his peripheral vision after smoking around 50-80mg of some pure DMT that worked fine for me & another pal, just minutes earlier!!
Of course, he wasn't going to lose to some stimkin' crystals...so he kept wanting more & more.
I had to eventually say to him, "come on man, I'm not going to keep letting you waste my DMT, trying to get high while your already drunk!!"
This of course caused him to get pissed off & start to argue etc...
So now I just tell people that you have to smoke around 6 times as much to get any effects when drunk & they can do that if they want to...when they are taking the time & money to extract they're own DMT...not just sharing in mine.
All of my close friends are more than welcome to share in my spice, but not while they're drinking!
Even if some people are able to use alcohol & psychs together successfully, I personally feel they don't complement each other much, if at all.
Polar opposites in my book.
2 cents...
WS