UK to be overrun with DMT
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Wishful thinking? Maybe not, given the size of this latest bust.
A brain-bending jungle drug is set to become a bigger menace than crystal meth on Britain's streets, it was feared last night.
Border guards have intercepted a record 13 million British pounds sterling haul of DMT - a powerful hallucinogen used by Amazon tribes.
Smokers of the crystals almost immediately suffer intense and often terrifying visions.
Side-effects include paranoia and flashbacks weeks or months later.
The Class-A drug has also been linked to schizophrenia.
It is feared smugglers are now trying to flood the UK - as they have in recent years with deadly methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth.
A senior police source said: "We've never seen quantities of DMT like this. This is clearly the latest drug trend. Dealers have seen big money to be made here."
The UK Border Agency recently intercepted 126 kilos of DMT being smuggled into Britain in 15 parcels from Brazil and Peru. Five found at the postal depot at Coventry Airport were heading for London.
[Thanks Tomas!]
[Editors Note: This story appears to be a tabloid fabrication. No other news articles can be found to support the Sun's claims.]
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As I already wrote, the word "visions" was fairly untypical - "hallucinations" sounds much more negative - but still it's quite a standard media report about psychedelics. And in such articles visions have to be "terrifying". Maybe those journalists even know they are writing some verbal pulp, but still they know they have to - the purpose of using such words is to show that nobody could have a reason to be interested in such experiences.
Even more: I can imagine that for some people such words are really honest, for some people the mere thought that reality may not be what they thought it to be - could indeed be terrifying.
I can respect such a standpoint, the only problem is that in the war on consciousness there are no innocent words - courage is called carelessness, curiosity becomes criminal. My comment is already getting a bit long, so I will yet tell a story about what do some people feel about unknown things. The story goes like this: a little boy was taken from his family by some welfare institution and had to spend whole two years in an orphanage before the institution repaired its mistake. The reason? The boy's mother was a very devout person and was having religious visions. And the most interesting thing: for the authors of almost every single comment it seemed obvious that this woman must be "mentally ill". (An interesting glimpse into this legendary Polish Catholicism. Poland is perceived as so very very Catholic, but - under the provision that forums usually don't represent the whole society very well - those Catholics don't believe a genuine religious experience is possible.)
What does it have to do with psychedelics? For me it shows that we'd better be more humble when saying things like "What would our culture be like if people had access to mystical experiences?" - simply because the average person doesn't seem to have any desire to have such experiences. We - psychonauts and theorists alike, pretty much everyone with a "psychedelic drug orientation" - are a minority. Maybe this fear of the Unknown is inborn, maybe it's purely cultural - but it's a fact that it shapes public views of topics like drugs. No, I'm not saying we should sit in the closet out of respect for the majority's views - but we mustn't forget that our culture can really make people think that a psychedelic experience HAS to be terrifying.
not one comment can i find that supports this misleading article.
At 50mg a go thats 20 million pipes worth! What a lod of crap. This really sounds like a made up story.
Phalaris (Grass) is probably the most common source.. Also check erowid.org if its still around...
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