DMT lab busted in Michigan

It is a lot of BS that DMT is natural and harmless because it is found in plants and is naturaly occuring in the human body. When you need to extract it from ground up roots using other chemicals such as dranno and acid it obviously is not safe. It is made in basements by kids who are reading instructions from the internet. Some of the
adverse pscholocial effects lasting for days.

Heroin and cocaine are also from plants.

Heroin come froms a plant, cocaine come form a plant. These are also made

could be acacia bark, you never know.

The basic extraction of DMT is not a volatile process. the only time it becomes volatile is when you wish to recrystallize, but you know, not many people are going to waste their time trying to make a 97% pure product into 99.999% pure.

on the by and by, 5-MEO-DMT is technically legal in all but 2 states. little known fact that won't get nobody out of anything

It's getting harder to find the lye needed for the extraction. I guess the paint thinner/acetone fumes could be hazardous if they don't vent properly. Still, it's not like you use ether or something...

DMT is described as a synthesized drug but of course this lab was certainly not synthesizing it if he was using root bark.

Regarding the need for HAZMAT crews to do a clean up, there could be acidic or basic solutions kept in unsafe containers, I wouldn't trust a random 20 year old to follow safe handling procedures nor would I trust a cop to follow safe disposal procedures for the supplies or biproducts from an A/B extraction.

Hmm. Is a blender, some acetone, and some root bark really a "lab"? Sounds like he only got to crude plant extract, rookie chemistry at best. Gotta go with the non-polar solvent to strip those crystals out, or so I'm told.

unless i'm mistaken, its no more volatile than having a few containers of paint thinner....

are they watching who buys rootbark these days? the anonymous tip seems... questionable...

and "According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, this is the first lab reported on the west side of the state. Only three such labs were located on the east side of the state last year."

i'm assuming DMT is rare in michigan, and if it is, busting three labs seems "successful"

Thank god you can make this funny, man! Because honestly...Shit like this makes me want to cry. They mentioned 'tree bark'. Oh no...Mimosa suppliers may be targeted now.