Re: MAPS: Help needed on AMT

["Free O'Free" <freeohfree@xxxxxxxxx>]

AMT is moderately popular in the 'research chemical' drug user crowd.
It is cheap, lasts a long time and has effects which people liken to both
LSD and MDMA.  I've tried it several times and I can say that while it
is a psychedelic, the comparison is not all that apt.  At lower doses it
is speedy, at higher doses more dreamy.  It feels like it is really hard on
your body.  I've also heard that it decays quickly (if anyone knows if
this decay produces toxins, that would be interesting to know).  And
it smells like the foulest indoley smell you can imagine.

I would also add that it is an MAOI.  I had the misfortune of taking
MDMA during an AMT trip and it was a seriously intense exprience,
possibly on the threshold of overdose.  Fortunately we lived to tell the
tail.  It is also possible that eating any MAOI contraindicated foods
can have a negative effect (ie, tyramine headaches)

It does last an extremely long time.

More info can be found at:  http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/amt/

AMT has been around since the 60s, but not so widely used as LSD.
I'm not sure if any real research has been done on it's toxicity.

Tom




> Hello,
> I am a drug policy reformer rather than a chemist, so I defer to you all
> about this subject.  Last night at a public forum a young person asked me
> about AMT.  When the kids want to know the truth about drugs they regularly
> ask our volunteers or call our legal support network.  I have never heard of
> AMT, I have no idea of the chemistry, the area of the brain effected, what
> it is made from, what studies have been done, nothing.  Can anyone help from
> this forum with referenced science or antidotal information?
>
> He sent me the information below about the drug.  If this is inappropriate
> for this list please let me know.  I am really interested in the science and
> protecting the young people who are obviously already using a chemical they
> know nothing about.
> AMT.
>
> Thanks,
> Jodi James
> FL CAN
>
> The young man wrote:
> Some general info on the drug and how it's affected us:
>     - 14 hour peak (up to 24 hours on a single pill if we use weed every few
> hours)
>     - Blowing up much like X
>     - One dose = mostly blowing up, mild tripping
>     - One and a half doses = Severe tripping... intense open and closed eye
> visuals
>
> The phrase that we keep using  is "this has to be too good to be true."
> Anyways, thanks again for looking into this for me, I really appreciate it,
> and look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
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