Hi all,
I've searched the forums but can't find anything about why flaming Changa doesn't pyrolize the dmt like it does with pure freebase. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks!

I have no extreme idea on this topic so my words may be misleading but I feel that since it's dissolved into the leaf then it just evaporates into the smoke when you burn the leaf.

I`m sure it does pyrolize some DMT when smoking changa too. Maybe the slowly moving amber will facilitate more vaporization vs combustion, but that`s just one possibility.

Personally I find smoking DMT in any way, including changa, too harsh on my lungs and throat. Vaporization is much better imo.

I think the herb works as a temperature (cloaking) retardant, like a temperature buffer, unable to change temp as fast as when no herb is used. The herb cannot be burned all at once, it has/needs some time for temperature propagation. This giving a larger time frame margin for the spice to evaporate rather than to burn immediately.
So even when a flame surrounds the herb, the spice inside the herb being temperature-isolated (to a degree) for at least an instant. Just an idea.

I would argue and say that changa or enhanced leaf does burn quite the same, depending on the ratio of DMT to leaf mix.
I've found that on my 2:1 spice to herb enhanced leaf, it is quite easy for the spice to flame up, and when that happens I get the same horrid taste of burnt freebase spice.
I usually use 1:1 and cover the dose in peppermint which keeps some of the direct heat off the spice. Lightly cherry and milk that bad boy up, one 40 mg rip of 1:1 and it's sayonara reality.