Poorly written and under-researched article full of hyperbole and misinformation.

http://www.news.com.au/l...aaa90f3ca15b961f2a22f2db

This is why we need a voice like the Nexus!

This is pretty bad. I can only imagine the response from the uninformed.

Unfortunately, places like the Nexus don't have as much reach as news.com.au. It's a pretty popular website for news, regardless of the journalistic integrity.

Maybe contacting the author to correct the smorgasbord of misinformation could minimise the effects of ignorance. I'm impartial to the phrase "any publicity is good publicity". Sure, someone could read that and see the word "spiritual" only to become intrigued. But this article is marketing DMT as another ice, especially the picture of the pipe with FB DMT. There are a lot of people who haven't even heard of DMT, but are now going to assume it's a drug of abuse.


Grrrrrr, re-reading that article makes me very frustrated. Time to sleep on this.



EDIT: On second thought, I think this is deliberate and not ignorance. The fact that the author acknowledges the therapeutic potential of psychedelics shows that they willingly decided to keep that in the shade. It's just a scare tactic, probably to get people to read it and respond in the comments. Especially by cherry picking a bad trip to use as an example.

Yeah, well, MTV is posting on CL in my area (us-pnw) to find someone to follow on an ayahuasca journey. One person asked me if I could help facilitate that. I declined. It's happening, all we can do is be good examples.

EDIT: just read the article linked by OP, and that is one of the worst I've ever seen. This is the kind of rhetoric that is created by the hysteria of the drug war. Absolutely no critical thinking on the part of the author, and outright lies by his chosen authority. Jeez.

This is a case of realy bad journalism. And the 'expert' is probably a pretty decent forensic toxicologist...but forensic toxicology probably does not require a lot of familiarity with hallucinogen drugs. As very few people (euphemism) ever actually die of a DMT overdose.

It really is though, I live in one of the major cities and I constantly ask people if they have tried it. I get responses like "Fuck yeah, I love snow cones bro... my mate makes it."

Pretty much most "cool" people I know has someone that they know who makes it... not to mention the absolute multitude of trees containing it.

I just hope new revolutionary drug policies can beat the grumpy baby boomer politicians who mandate this sort of thing FOR POLICE TO ENFORCE without a complete perspective on what it is, how safe it is, what it does, what it can do for peoples wellbeing and what the implications of that is. fucking noobs

I am glad the journalist included erowids hyperslap as it really shows the power and brutality that DMT can hold:

I'd say there is a hidden boon within this article - the fact that reference to tree extraction is minimal. Whatever this synthetic substance ms Lambert is writing about, the chances of it actually being DMT seems slim to me.