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New to Psychedelics?
The substances which are often referred to as 'Psychedelics' -- namely; Di-Methyl Tryptamine (DMT), Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms), & Mescaline all share notable similarities.
Among these similarities are molecular structure, a long & safe history of human use, antagonistic action on many of the same brain receptors, and largely positive effects on human consciousness. Consuming any of these substances at high dosage will (for most individuals) elicit broadly analogous effects, including but not limited to;
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Visual hallucination
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Altered sense of time
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Excitement & euphoria
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Personal insight & reflection
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Sensory enhancement & synesthesia
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Unusual thought & speech patterns
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Creative & philosophical epiphanies
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Uncontrollable laugher
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Spiritual or mystical feelings
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Out of body experiences
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Contact with 'otherworldly' entities
Due to the above-mentioned effects, psychedelics are commonly used with recreational intent. They serve this purpose exceedingly well as both magic mushrooms and LSD are consistently rated by the Global Drug Survey (GDS) to be the best value-for-money out of all non-prescription drugs. What's interesting about psychedelics, which does not apply to any other drugs surveyed in the GDS, is that they also possess robust medicinal and therapeutic properties. All levels of society, from the highest levels of government to the working class are quickly coming to this realization, amid a crisis in mental health care. Perspectives are shifting quickly towards the acceptance and utilization of these profound, many would say sacred, substances for both the treatment of debilitating mental health conditions, and for recreational purpose.
It was actually documented in scientific literature as early as the late 1950's that the mind-altering effects of psychedelics could be harnessed and combined with psychotherapy to produce effectiveness rates far beyond those of conventional treatments. Now in 2021 this literature is not only being re-examined, but expanded. Over 100 institutions across the globe are studying psilocybin, DMT, LSD, Mescaline, MDMA, Ketamine, and various other substances for their safety and efficacy in treating conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, Alzheimers, & chronic pain.
Some of the institutions studying psychedelics. For more information visit our studies page
This interest on the part of prestigious academic institutions has been the driving force behind research, but that is quickly changing as there have been several licences issued to public companies allowing them to produce and study psychedelics pursuant to the formulation of novel treatment methods. On the "ground level" there are already several clinics nationwide offering psychedelic psychotherapy (some of these operated by publicly traded corporations), many grey market psilocybin dispensary storefronts open in Vancouver, and many websites selling mushrooms/other psychedelics.
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DMT
The Spirit Molecule
C12H16N2
Di-Methyl-Tryptamine, commonly referred to as "DMT" is one of the most powerful psychoactive substances known to mankind. Interestingly, this substance is endogenously produced by the human body (and endogenously produced by many other forms of plant and animal life). This characteristic (biosynthesis by humans) is exceptional because it is not shared by any other psychedelic substance.
DMT is also the active hallucinogenic compound in ayahuasca, a tea brewed from the Psychotria viridis shrub and the Banisteriopsis Caapi root. Ayahuasca has used for ritual purposes by indigenous cultures across southern and Central America for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
While Ayahuasca is the oldest known method of DMT consumption, it is now more common for DMT to be consumed in crystal form, by smoking in a pipe, bong, or vaporizer pen. This form of ingestion produces a powerful but short-lasting hallucinogenic state, considered to be one of the most intense psychedelic experiences in existence.
The reason why smoking DMT results in a short experience, while drinking Ayahuasca results in a 12+ hour experience is because of a compound called Monoamine Oxidase (MAO). The human body naturally produces Monoamine Oxidase, and this compound effectively serves to nullify any psychoactive effects that perhaps would be felt due to the bodies naturally produced DMT.
MAO's role in the body is to "clean" neuroreceptors by breaking the bonds that several different monoamine neurotransmitters ( like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine) form with neuroreceptors. N- N, Di-methyl-tryptamine is also a monoamine compound, so therefore endogenously produced DMT is broken down by MAO before it has the chance to bond with neuroreceptors.
When exogenous DMT (not produced by the body) is introduced in large enough amounts (by smoking or vaporizing DMT) it is able to overcome the inhibitory action of MAO and elicit a short but very intense psychedelic experience. The Ayahuasca brew on the other hand contains naturally occurring Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI's), which stop the body from producing MAO. This results in psychoactive effects being felt for a longer period of time, until the effects of the Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor wears off.
Overview
“It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call “dark matter” — the 95 per cent of the universe’s mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.”
― Graham Hancock
There’s something uncharacteristic about DMT (when compared to other psychedelics): it’s naturally produced by the human brain. It's theorized that this is why DMT is often referred to as the ‘Spirit Molecule’, along with the fact that DMT reliably elicits an other-worldly, often spiritual or mystical experience.
What’s more is that this particular tryptamine is found commonly throughout nature — in the cells of animals and produced in many species of plants. Most notable among its characteristics is the rapidity of its onset and the intensity of its effect. Consuming DMT catapults a user into vivid visual hallucinations and temporal distortions within moments of being consumed (when consumed through smoking or vaporizing).
When inhaled (by smoking or using a DMT vape pen) the effects of DMT last only a short amount of time — between five to twenty minutes — though they’ll last much longer if orally ingested, usually in the form of a compounded ayahuasca brew. When consumed, DMT initiates a physiological response as it forms a bond with serotonin receptors in the brain, sending a signals throughout the central nervous system and altering sensory perceptions.
Out of this world
What’s perhaps most controversial about DMT, aside from the above-stated fact that it’s produced endogenously by the pineal gland of the human brain, is the particular set of insights that it may lead the consumer to experience. Aside from being extremely revelatory, such insights are often said to originate from external, extra-dimensional or otherworldly 'entities'.
These reports of interaction with entities while under the influence of DMT is why the substance seems to be one of the most trending, mysterious and highly sought-after psychedelics today. The consumption of psychedelics is often associated with expanding perception— helping a user break through the confines of everyday perspective and transcend the limits of our routine cognitive capacity—however DMT is unique in the appearance of entities who are reported to bestow these shifts in perception and personal realizations to the user.
While substances like LSD and psilocybin can certainly achieve perspective shifts to a considerable and varying degree, DMT seems to shatter the ends of the spectrum altogether, prompting the kind of temporal distortions and imaginative contemplations that would occur far outside the realm of anything we may consider routinely psychedelic.
It’s no wonder that it’s often associated with near death experiences, which are themselves theorized to instigate a neurological flooding of DMT into the sigma-1 receptors of the brain.
From Angels to Elves
Famed psychonaut and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna had coined the term ‘machine elves’ to describe the entities which he had reportedly encountered when consuming DMT, and McKenna hadn’t been the only one.
Numerous researchers detail these entities in an eerily similar manner, going as far as to correlate various biblical interpretations (encounters with angels, for instance) to DMT experiences and reinforcing such experiences with the accounts of participants in modern studies.
Regardless of whether such encounters emanate directly from benevolent external entities or from within the mind of a user, layers surrounding the nature of reality itself tend to peel away, offering profound insights that can culminate themselves into a life-changing experience.
It’s for this reason that DMT is situated atop the list of ‘must-try’ psychedelics, as its potency remains as unparalleled as the intrigue surrounding it.
Dosage & Experience
The most popular method of consuming DMT is by smoking, with vaporization considered the easiest and most user-friendy option as it prevents the DMT from being heated past the point of efficacy - DMT crystals are exceptionally heat-sensitive and should not be exposed to temperatures over 180 degrees Celsius. Our DMT vape pens can function on 3 different power settings and will ensure that the product is heated to optimal vaporization temperature.
Freebasing, whereby DMT is simply smoked out of a pipe, is also a popular method that has persisted long before DMT vape pens became available. However, this method is recommended for experienced users as it is not only more harsh than a DMT vaporizer pen, but also catapults the user directly into the experience. DMT vapes on the other hand are better suited to modulating dosage, taste better, and offer just as robust of an experience if used correctly.
A starter dose for those wanting to simply try to feel the initial onset of effects - dipping their toes into the water of this enigmatic experience - hovers around the 10-20mg range. While such a low dosage isn't enough to cause hallucinations or the kind of euphoric revelations that are typically associated with DMT, it can cause a distortion of some sensory experience, lasting only a few minutes at most.
In the higher range, from 25-40mg, one can expect the often-sought breakthroughs to happen, along with visualizations and changes to auditory perceptions as well as a shift in temporal perception. A dose of 40mg or higher is certain to provoke a revelatory experience, lasting anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes at the most.
The experience brought on by a breakthrough DMT dose is potent to say the least, facilitating a different interfacing with reality that many people would have a hard time explaining. From conversations with ephemeral beings to observations of geometric harmony, those who have tried DMT will be afforded a glimpse of the world from such a radically different perspective unlike any they've experienced before.
The after-glow - a term associated with the subtly euphoric and calm feeling after a trip - will typically last up to an hour, during which point all cognitive faculties are back to normal.
Pharmacology
Widely found in plants and animals, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine is an alkaloid renowned for its intensely potent psychoactive effect, lasting an extremely short duration in comparison to most other psychedelics.
While it remains to be fully understood in terms of its pharmacological scope, evidence suggests that DMT plays a crucial role in a number of innate processes of the periphery and central nervous systems, acting as an endogenous neurotransmitter with numerous mechanisms of action relating to serotonin regulation.
Monoamine Oxidase, a digestive enzyme, breaks down DMT that is consumed orally, necessitating the combination of an inhibitor of this enzyme (an MAOI) - like the famous ayahuasca vine. Together, they prolong the duration of the effect while also increasing its intensity.
Upon its consumption, DMT will bind to several types of serotonin receptors, the stimulation of which causes hallucinogenic effects and sensory distortion, also effecting mood, emotion, and cognitive function.
One of the most intriguing questions surrounding the pharmacological dimension of DMT is whether our brains produce DMT naturally, as mounting evidence suggests that it is produced while we dream and in the death process itself.
Pop Culture
Despite being synthesized almost a century ago, DMT has only become more of a mainstream hallucinogenic in the last several years as a number of factors have come together to popularize this peculiar hallucinogenic.
Most iconic could be the documentary published in 2010 entitled "DMT: The Spirit Molecule", which explored the origins and applications of this substance, detailing the fact that its popularity sprouted from an inherent association with Ayahuasca.
A collective and surging interest in Ayahuasca itself, throughout the last decade, has also proliferated a lot of focus on DMT, exacerbated by references from popular media productions like The Joe Rogan Experience and Rick and Morty.
Where to buy DMT in Canada
Psychedelia.io offers DMT products, available in several forms (either freebase DMT powder, or DMT vaporizer cartridges) We offer both N,N-DMT and 5-MeO DMT vape pens, but at the moment we only offer N,N-DMT freebase. Our products have been reviewed by many as the best on the psychedelic market.
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LSD
C20H25N30
Lysergic acid diethylamide
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly referred to as "LSD" or "Acid" is probably regarded as the most potent psychedelic substance next to DMT. LSD is an extremely powerful psychoactive substance that is historically associated with 'ergot' - a fungal compound that grows on wheat, however in the modern day LSD is far removed from ergot, and is synthesized through a relatively complex process.
When ingested, LSD increases serotonin in the brain, acting as a 5-HT receptor activator, affecting the cognitive functions emanating from the pre-frontal cortex - the area that regulates our thought-processes, behaviors, and decision-making capabilities.
It's for this reason that microdosing LSD has been linked to the optimization of productivity and is quickly becoming regarded as one of the most valuable mind-tools of the 21st century.
Overview
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
― Steve Jobs
A vivid history
Many of us have heard the story of how lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) had first been synthesized — Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann and his infamous bicycle day which we now celebrate on the 19th of every April — but few of us have come to appreciate LSD’s significant influence on countless areas of our socio-political culture.
Our collective curiosity into examining the effects of this peculiar substance have been exemplified in both enlightening and nefarious ways — from the enthusiastic studies of Timothy Leary and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s to the CIA’s experimentation with LSD (and Project MK-Ultra) the decade prior.
Acid, as it’s become colloquially regarded, has a long and complex history, infusing North American culture with the same kinds of effects it seems to produce in the mind of its consumer: intensified thoughts and perceptions, expanded cognitive activity, existential contemplation.
And it seems we’re only on the cusp of understanding its true potential.
Nature or nurture?
One of the most fascinating aspects of LSD’s history regards its transition from a naturally-occurring derivative (from ergot — a fungal growth common to grains) to the synthesized product we use today.
Its extreme potency is a testament to the true power that it holds, in even the smallest amounts. It’s odorless, colorless and tasteless nature allows it to be easily infused into any medium — tablet, capsule, powder or, most popular, either suspended in liquid or ‘blotted’ onto paper.
Effects are typically felt within the first half hour to an hour, causing sensory distortion, more vivid perceptional experiences, synesthesia and variable degrees of hallucination.
Notable amongst its core characteristics are the duration of its effect on the mind, sometimes lasting up to 20 hours. Despite the heavier effect, micro-dosing has become an increasingly popular method by which LSD is consumed, offering a manageable regiment of steady effects that are regarded to be especially conducive towards efforts of self-improvement or focus-habituation.
Psychedelic 2.0
Perhaps most appealing is LSD’s status as the prototypical psychedelic — a synthesized compound of utility that offers to increase cognitive activity and performance. Its effects are more stimulatory in nature as it binds to dopamine receptors in addition to serotonin receptors, offering a more fast-paced experience than other psychedelics like psilocybin.
For these reasons, LSD microdosing has become synonymous with productivity and self-optimization, from the tech-savvy crowds of Silicon Valley to the financiers and traders of Wall Street.
Though it should be regarded that LSD still offers a capacity for reverential insight, as well as a tremendous prospect for therapeutic endeavors, becoming a mechanism of choice for countless clinicians and pharmacologists across North America.
Compounded with concepts like neuroplasticity or practices like meditation, LSD offers a dramatic expansion of our horizons when it comes to our conscious potential, from efficiency to understanding.
As our relationship with LSD evolves amidst greater understanding and acceptance, the true potential of this powerful substance is finally being fully realized. Though as the current reverberations flow through so many domains of our existence — from therapy couches to workspaces to easels — we’ve yet to reach the peak of its potent effect on our culture.
Dosage & Experience
Due to its extreme potency, LSD is considered to be rather unpredictable in intensity, as even the most miniscule of dosage variations can induce considerably different trips; combined with the setting of an experience and a number of other variables (i.e. purpose, frame of mind), LSD is considered an extremely versatile psychedelic, illuminating the fact that hallucinogens should always be perceived as extremely subjective commodities.
On the lower end of the scale, whereby a consumer can experience a mild or threshold experience, 10ug to 50ug will often prompt some level of change to sensory perception and a very subtle sense of mood elevation, along with an array of cognitive effects that can be likened to a strong cup of coffee. An LSD microdose range will typically fall somewhere between 10ug to 30ug and is often associated with boosts to mental efficacy, increased creativity, improved cognitive function and heightened focus.
On the moderate range of the scale, at about 50ug to 200ug, a more substantial experience can be felt whereby hallucinations will occur alongside a distortion of sensory perceptions, time, and emotion. Ego-dissolution, identity contemplation, existential commiseration are all normal happenstance, with effects peaking within 1-2 hours and lasting 4-8 hours in total.
On the higher end of the scale of 200ug +, experiences can vary depending on tolerance, setting, and expectation, through very strong hallucinations are common, alongside substantial distortions of time, sensory experience, auditory perception and vision. Rationality and self-identity is usually compromised, as is a sense of control. For those unfamiliar with psychedelics, panic may occur during this temporal disassociation with reality. Some level of psychosis (not necessarily unpleasant) will be induced during the intense period that can last up to 12 hours.
Pharmacology
Upon ingestion, LSD acts as a serotonin receptor activator, disrupting the regulation of serotonin levels (and increasing them) in the brain. LSD will mostly combine with the receptors associated with cognitive function within the pre-frontal cortex - that which regulates decision making and behaviour, affecting the brains processing ability. Many will consider this to improve mental function and thus utilize LSD as a tool towards mental optimization.
While the comprehensive pharmacology of LSD is not yet fully understood due to the inherent complexity of its mechanisms of action, LSD is well tolerated by the physiology of the brain, allowing psychological reactions to be relatively controllable.
New applications are being considered in its therapeutic ability to treat depression and emotional dysfunction, cluster headaches and a range of neurological symptomology, as well as psychological management of the terminally ill.
Pop Culture
Since its initial synthesis in 1938, LSD has been one of the most popular psychedelics on the scene, seeing its popularity exponentiated through its dual-headed use as both a nefarious military weapon and a creative inspiration to beatnik artists.
Today, Hollywood has no hard time creating fictional stories based on non-fictional circumstances relating to the employment of LSD throughout the mid 21st century, as many blockbuster hits make reference to initiatives such as MKUltra and Operation Paperclip.
More notable are the sponsorships of this psychedelic by popular names throughout all spectrums of Western culture - from artists like the Beatles, authors like Aldous Huxley and Harvard professors like Tim Leary, the latter of which can be most thanked for shaping our modern understanding of this powerful substance.
LSD's uncanny ability to distort sensory perception and allow for an experience unlike any other have proved pivotal in our fascination with the expansion of consciousness and have motivated countless artists and researchers alike to promote this iconic substance.
Where to buy LSD in Canada
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