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Police seize rare party drug
By Jared Savage
5:30 AM Saturday May 28, 2011
Customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder. Photo / Sarah Ivey
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Customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder. Photo / Sarah Ivey
A powerful party drug rarely seen in New Zealand that can cause intense hallucinations and paranoia has been seized in a record $4.5 million haul.
Dimethyltryptamine, also called DMT, is also the main psychoactive ingredient in ayahuasca, an Amazonian brew used for healing purposes.
The Class-A narcotic is smoked through a glass pipe in powder form, like methamphetamine, with a vapour compared to burning plastic. DMT can also be injected.
Depending on the dose, the high ranges from a mild psychedelic state to extreme immerse hallucination - including a total disconnection from reality.
Until now, DMT has been rarely seen in New Zealand. Law enforcement agencies are still trying to establish street-level prices.
So customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder - the largest seizure on record - in a package from South America. A normal dose is 15mg to 60mg. A 21-year-old man from Blenheim has been charged with importing the Class-A drug and faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Until the recent 18kg haul, most seizures were small packages intercepted at the border.
Detective Inspector Stuart Mills, from the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, said that as far as he was aware, no one had been charged with importing the drug before.
He was also unsure what had driven the new demand for DMT, given the popularity of methamphetamine and cannabis in New Zealand.
"But people are always experimenting. DMT is similar to LSD, which is a popular illicit drug here, so there could be demand from those users."
While a street-level price in New Zealand was yet to be established, Mr Mills said DMT cost $250 for 1g in the United States. At that rate, the 18kg haul was worth $4.5 million.
Dr Tim Parke, clinical director at the Auckland Hospital emergency department, said he had not seen or heard of any patients presenting under the influence of the drug.
But research shows DMT users quickly reach a euphoric high - which can last less than one hour - followed by paranoia, anxiety, a sense of foreboding and panic, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency.
While most psychedelic drug users know the hallucinations are unreal, this is not necessarily true with DMT, the DEA claims.
On top of the dissociative effect of DMT, users may feel that they are in a different world, says the DEA, or in a reality that is more vivid and compelling than dreams or waking awareness.
www.nzherald.co.nz
Police seize rare party drug
By Jared Savage
5:30 AM Saturday May 28, 2011
Customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder. Photo / Sarah Ivey
Expand
Customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder. Photo / Sarah Ivey
A powerful party drug rarely seen in New Zealand that can cause intense hallucinations and paranoia has been seized in a record $4.5 million haul.
Dimethyltryptamine, also called DMT, is also the main psychoactive ingredient in ayahuasca, an Amazonian brew used for healing purposes.
The Class-A narcotic is smoked through a glass pipe in powder form, like methamphetamine, with a vapour compared to burning plastic. DMT can also be injected.
Depending on the dose, the high ranges from a mild psychedelic state to extreme immerse hallucination - including a total disconnection from reality.
Until now, DMT has been rarely seen in New Zealand. Law enforcement agencies are still trying to establish street-level prices.
So customs officers were surprised to discover 18kg of the red-brown powder - the largest seizure on record - in a package from South America. A normal dose is 15mg to 60mg. A 21-year-old man from Blenheim has been charged with importing the Class-A drug and faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Until the recent 18kg haul, most seizures were small packages intercepted at the border.
Detective Inspector Stuart Mills, from the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, said that as far as he was aware, no one had been charged with importing the drug before.
He was also unsure what had driven the new demand for DMT, given the popularity of methamphetamine and cannabis in New Zealand.
"But people are always experimenting. DMT is similar to LSD, which is a popular illicit drug here, so there could be demand from those users."
While a street-level price in New Zealand was yet to be established, Mr Mills said DMT cost $250 for 1g in the United States. At that rate, the 18kg haul was worth $4.5 million.
Dr Tim Parke, clinical director at the Auckland Hospital emergency department, said he had not seen or heard of any patients presenting under the influence of the drug.
But research shows DMT users quickly reach a euphoric high - which can last less than one hour - followed by paranoia, anxiety, a sense of foreboding and panic, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency.
While most psychedelic drug users know the hallucinations are unreal, this is not necessarily true with DMT, the DEA claims.
On top of the dissociative effect of DMT, users may feel that they are in a different world, says the DEA, or in a reality that is more vivid and compelling than dreams or waking awareness.
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wow
just...wtf.
and since when did the DEA become the authority on pharmacology?
just...wtf.
and since when did the DEA become the authority on pharmacology?
psyco_nomad
Joe
It is simply amazing how the media curcius leaves out the most important details such as it was MHRB powder and not pure DMT powder. and "followed by paranoia, anxiety, a sense of foreboding and panic" WTF I have always come out of a DMT trip feeling better then ever even after some seriously scary shit happen duing trips. Stop with the fucking scare tactics, the shit doesn't work. Drug enforcement scare tactics only make middle class ignarant parents scared then when children try, say, coke they think wow this isn't as bad as everyone made it out to be... and what do you know there hooked and do the parents help them out with love and understanding... NO they shun them and treat them like their scum all because the dea puts out bogus fucking reports and scares the shit out of all the stupid assholes out there... I mean come on WTF... we really need to grow the fuck up as a society and as a whole have some fucking understanding and for god scakes don't believe every stupid little thing you read especialy for a corrupt goverment agency. FUCK PEOPLE
MMPA
Rising Star
Psyco, calm down. This is the reality of government and how they view/act towards drugs. Yes, it does bum all of us out but there isn't much to do. Yes, I am pretty sure that if every government official simultaneously tried LSD, the world would probably be much better off, but that is unlikely. Whatever their motives, we cannot do much to change it.
christian
Rising Star
I completely agree with Psycho. However, you know and i know, that there isn't much we can do about drugs policy.
-The fact is this, in certain countries 1 kilo of rootbark that contains traces of DMT is considered as if the whole kilo of substance is actually DMT. Yes, it's mind boglingly stupid and totally incorrect, but this is the way they have written their drugs laws in order to scare people as much as possible. etc.
-I've been reading the New Zealand online news since this occured, and it is blatantly obvious that the way drugs are dealt with over there is extremely prudish, and seems quite backwards. I guess "on_bail" would have been wiser to have checked the status with customs beforehand, because 18 kilos of anything is asking for attention. This may have saved him perhaps a costly lawyer. I wonder if he has in fact been released. I hope so.
-The fact is to be careful peoples.8)
-The fact is this, in certain countries 1 kilo of rootbark that contains traces of DMT is considered as if the whole kilo of substance is actually DMT. Yes, it's mind boglingly stupid and totally incorrect, but this is the way they have written their drugs laws in order to scare people as much as possible. etc.
-I've been reading the New Zealand online news since this occured, and it is blatantly obvious that the way drugs are dealt with over there is extremely prudish, and seems quite backwards. I guess "on_bail" would have been wiser to have checked the status with customs beforehand, because 18 kilos of anything is asking for attention. This may have saved him perhaps a costly lawyer. I wonder if he has in fact been released. I hope so.
-The fact is to be careful peoples.8)
Seraph said:
This is precisely why these laws are nothing short of absolutely absurd.
Entropymancer lays out the absurdity in these laws in his wonderfully informative thread Notes on the Legal Status of DMT Source Plants in the US.۩ said:
Essentially, by selling a cat (and knowing said cat contains DMT) you are selling a Schedule I substance. Even worse, as US law is written, if the cat sold weighs 20lbs., you've sold 20lbs. of DMT.
Jin
yes
just putting it out there
should we request our suppliers to send mhrb as an auyervedic powder , mud pack , garden soil or something else as no one really knows its mimosa until they read it on the package
where i live everything is cool , but in places where there are harsh penalties it would certainly be a good idea
should we request our suppliers to send mhrb as an auyervedic powder , mud pack , garden soil or something else as no one really knows its mimosa until they read it on the package
where i live everything is cool , but in places where there are harsh penalties it would certainly be a good idea
christian
Rising Star
Ki, can you please explain what you mean by that. Do you live in New Zealand??...From what i read in the online newspapers there, they seem to be etremely strict on drugs over there, and i would NOT like to live over there because of such a close minded attitude, despite visiting the country and finding it a beautiful country with friendly people.
Not for buying it or importing it alone, afaik, but someone was busted with "pound(s) of DMT) and a "lab" and the pound(s) sounded like powdered mhrb from the description. I posted the story in the CEL subfora. Buying mhrb (or similar plants) with the intent to extract (or mere knowledge of the presence of DMT in the bark) is illegal in the US...it's just rarely enforced.Lostkeys said: