I agree. The best we can do is present the facts in a mature matter. Unfortunately it's likely more people will get thier "facts" from the youtube and it's chaotic comments than they do here. I think youtube is more responsible for people misinterpreting Dr. Strassman's hypothesis about the pineal than his own words.

I learned from cannabis that there will always be that percentage of people who hear the facts and still claim that anything that's an illegal "drug" will ineveitably force someone into a downward spiral. Our Govt. will never admit that they lied about any illegal drug's effects and will twist their facts with words such as "may" "could" or "can" be (insert harmful side effect here)

i remember somebody briefly mentioning dmt to me in college, but for the most part i just considered it something that i probably would never come across so i didnt really think about it too much

people know where to find weed or mushrooms or even harder drugs like coke for instance, but i doubt there are many people who can find dmt in their hometown and even if they were told about a batch going through town i'm guessing they probably wouldn't be that determined to go get it.

I think it will still remain alot more underground than most other drugs even if more and more people are starting to become aware of it

DMT definitely has a different route than other drugs. It is typically extracted by people whose main purpose is to consume it themselves, not make profit (like meth, lsd, molly, heroin). So this route is going to make the reputation of the drug differently. If the extractor gives DMT to another person, they will usually gauge out if the consumer is very willing and "ready" for the experience. The extractor and the consumer will probably at the very least express philosophical or metaphysical beliefs, which will break the whole "drug deller" paradigm.

I think the Spirit molecule did a good job for its purpose. It popularized DMT to people who are already a fan of psychedelics and it showed scientific Clinical tests about DMT to the mainstream.

So overall i think the reputation for dmt is going good.

except that Australia catches a whiff of that rubber smelling spice and thus may ban hundreds of DMT containing plants. that's another subject; that maybe more cultural to that region so I do not know what is goin on exactly.