The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7165 p347-351
15 September 2001

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Drug abuse

Journeys and cannons

From Mr A. R. McMath, MRPharmS

I wish to correct an error that slipped into the article on “The changing world of drug misuse” (PJ, 25 August, p258). It is incorrectly stated that DMT is a new synthetic agent that has a similar action to LSD. DMT is a natural product (see Merck Index) and has been used as a hallucinogenic agent at least since the 1960s (I have not enquired into any use before this period, for example, in religious festivals by indigenous tribes). Tom Wolfe mentioned its use in his book “The Electric kool-aid acid test”. As to its action Mr Wolfe reports that “as somebody once put it, LSD is a long, strange journey; DMT is like being shot out of a cannon”

Andrew McMath
Illkirch, France

DMT is a natural product. Its inclusion in our feature resulted from a misunderstanding, which we regret.
— EDITOR.

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