Dear Nexians,

SWIM had a severe cough after smoking DMT in his GVG. It's a kind of strange thing, as it's the first time that happened. Usually smoking just hurt his throat a little bit for a couple of hours, but this time he really felt bad. Maybe he got ill for other causes, but it seems everything started from a throat ache after smoking.

Here's some info about that experience that may help us figure out what happened:

1) Dose wasn't high
2) Spice came from a Noman tek application, with NO final carbonate wash.
3) Spice melted once during SWIM's holiday and was goo-ish when loaded.
4) GVG was cleaned 15 days before, being used and not cleared 5/6 times.

In my experience, using several times the same smoking device (I used the "light bulb" before the GVG) without cleaning gives harsher smoke. That may depends also on NaOH and other mimosa soup left in the GVG.

Any hint or opinion would be very much appreciated, I just wouldn't like to give my friends some unhealthy smoke.
Thanks.

It's your temperature that's causing it. Please look for the GVG thread(s) for proper technique!

If you apply proper temperature, purify your spice or redissolve in acetone to remove naphtha that could be trapped. However, I believe it's temp

EDIT: look at this:

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...&m=272265#post272265

Thank You for Your contribute, tele.

I did use pure n-hexane for this extraction. This might be more irritating than naphtha although I believe it guarantee better evaporation and lower content of impurities. Also separation appears to happen earlier.

Temperature can definitely be the cause of the problem, this is indeed coherent with my experience.

I think I'm going to wash my GVG and waste residuals: I don't want burnt spice and mimosa soup to harshen my future smoke.

Thanks again.

I also suggest redissolving your spice in ethanol/acetone and re-evaporating again to make sure any possible traces of hexane trapped inside crystals is removed.

I have appreciated this advice so much that I do not smoke spice if it hasn't been redissolved in acetone. Makes one confident that it doesn't have any unwanted traces left inside...

I made quick instruction for the method of redissolving:
https://www.dmt-nexus.me...&m=273268#post273268