New Haven Independent

Posted by: cedarhillresident | May 29, 2009 2:09 PM

This one of those things that make you go hmmmm. LSD??? Who even thought that it was still out there.
But what is really scary is this is a guy that picked up the skill on the internet....it would of been a matter of time before they blew up the block!
Good call by the neighbor...and great follow up by the cops!

Posted by: John | May 29, 2009 2:30 PM

DMT is an extremely safe psychedelic drug. The reaction is typically overblown. It was not hard for him to find out how to make it, it is nothing more than a simple acid-base reaction - elementary organic chemistry. Don't worry, the drug is not addictive and most of your kids will not enjoy even a single hit of it. It is a serious experience that offers a lot to the right kind of explorer. There are many more home extractors of DMT - it is found in countless plants around the world and will not be going away anytime soon. DMT is the main component of Ayahuasca, used by tribes in South America for thousands of years to heal oneself and others both physically and spiritually.

Posted by: jawbone | May 29, 2009 3:38 PM

Wow, John, Far out. Always remember...Love is the ultimate drug.

Posted by: Beansie's Mom | May 29, 2009 4:09 PM

Cheerios has to take its claim off the boxes that it lowers cholestrol. Simple Acid Base reaction. What a laugh.

John: Get a grip. Move to South America but here it's don't do drugs. Anything can become addictive to someone.

Jawbone: Love isn't a drug.

Posted by: Henry | May 29, 2009 4:30 PM

It's also an endogenous chemical. Everyone's body produces it regularly. Think judges can write search warrants for our pineal glands?

Posted by: paul | May 29, 2009 4:47 PM

Every human being on the planet is in illegal possession of the visionary drug DMT.

Dimethyltryptamine is an endogenous neurotansmitter produced by the pineal gland. The pineal gland also produces another trptamine melantoin which is critical to our cicdian rhythmn.

Serotonin is a tryptamine as is the visionary psychedlic 5-methoxydimethyltryptamine which is legal,is the active ingredient in 'toad licking', and has been isolated from human spinal fluid.

DMT is also the visionary chemical throughout Amazonia and probably the major source of Asutralian aborigine spirituality.

DMT as a visionary psychedelic is beyond LSD, mescaline, etc. The fact that it is endogenous and received so little attention as to function is gobsmacking amazing.

Would there be the same lack of response if it was discovered the pineal gland produced LSD? Me thinks not and yet as stated DMT is similiar to LSD but with much more breadth and areas of depth.

Posted by: Doriss Day | May 29, 2009 5:03 PM

I love it, especially the bocce ball guys. Hey, Arriva Derci Roma, New Haven. I wonder how much this going to cost the taxpayersduring tough economic times? See Rell's speech today.

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | May 29, 2009 5:41 PM

Long live Timothy Leary,TurnOn TurnIn Drop Out!!!

Posted by: John Rusty | May 29, 2009 10:02 PM

These comments are uninformed guesses. After reading that this terrible drug was being manufactured right in the state my mother lives, I found that the process of synthesizing Dymethyltryptamine is not dangerous in the least. It isn't meth people. Its about as safe as making silly putty out of elmers glue and washing detergent. I suggest more people educate themselves on drugs because they are an important part of our culture, and millions of people partake in their use.

Posted by: Bill | May 30, 2009 12:42 AM

The production of DMT is not like a meth lab, the chances of them blowing up the street is less likely than you leaving the gas on in your house and lighting a match.

Posted by: basis49 | May 30, 2009 12:46 AM

"He said the cleanup would cost several hundred thousand dollars."

Nothing but a lie to take more money from townspeople. With this economy, you can employ me at $9.00 an hour to clean that up, it's not like it's some radioactive waste site.

Posted by: confused | May 30, 2009 4:59 AM

These comments are right on point. The police should have just knocked on the door after receiving information of a possible meth lab and asked the people if they were cooking up meth or not. If they said, why yes officer we are cooking meth, then an intensive investigation could begin. If they said, no it's only illegal acid, then the police could have gone onto more important things. Or they could have just waited until the neighborhood blew up from the explosion. You people live in a fantasy world, grow up. What part of illegal don't you understand?

Posted by: ned | May 30, 2009 8:21 AM

Why is the number one nasty drug - ALCOHOL - always given a free pass?

Posted by: Iggy | May 30, 2009 12:02 PM

Love isn't a drug, it's a mental illness

Posted by: ROBN | May 30, 2009 12:02 PM

Huhhh? This just woke me up...

Pineal Gland?

GONZO LIVES!

Posted by: Morris Cove | May 30, 2009 12:41 PM

These drugs are dangerous, they had a haz mat team out their for almost (2) hours, this nut had vats of stuff in a mobile home behind his house, what if that that caught fire?

I guess the thought of L.S.D., is funny to some, maybe you should see some of these people who took bad trips and jumped off buildings, I bet that's pretty funny, or the people with leisons on there brains from years of abuse, that's a real knee slapper.

Wake up these drugs were in our back yards, what else are these back yard chemist cooking up?

Posted by: 4553311222 | May 31, 2009 10:49 AM

Drugs not jobs.

Posted by: The Truth | May 31, 2009 11:05 PM

I seriously urge all the people here who write about how dangerous this is and how this could have exploded/caught fire to read up on this a lot more before writing any more sloppy guesswork.
There is only ONE flammable substance involved (naphta) and the process involves no heating of any kind, so there is very little chance of this blowing up.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt.shtml

Stop making up ridiculous about drugs. It does a lot more harm than good. Scaring people away from drugs by spreading false information has never worked and never will.

Posted by: ned | June 1, 2009 7:39 AM

looks like the guy, who was arrested, is the only one pictured who isn't obese. Which is the bigger health risk: lifetime obesity, or the occassional DMT/LSD trip? Also, aside from the chemical waste - which is the only thing that should be of concern - why is it anyone's business what someone knowingly does to their own body? If someone is getting high, I don't care; It's none of my business and I don't want to be taxed to throw them in jail. Let's start jailing fat people, because everyone knows that being fat is bad for your health, being fat is a personal moral failure and the state must step in to put a stop to fatness...

Posted by: robn | June 1, 2009 1:02 PM

Love is the ultimate trip.

Posted by: jawbone | June 2, 2009 8:48 AM

Hey ROBN thats a groovy button you're wearing, what's it say?

Posted by: robn | June 2, 2009 12:41 PM

JAWBONE,

Thanks for asking...it says..
"Love is the ultimate trip"

Posted by: Morris Cove | June 2, 2009 5:33 PM

Truth

So you must know more then the experts in this field, what's your level of expertise, aside from google?. To say that these drugs aren't dangerous is irresponsible, would you allow your teenage children to take hits of DMT?, I think not, these drugs are DANGEROUS, you should look further into drug besides your prodrug site you attached.

Look into the side effects like bad trips, and possible psyschosis. Have you actually ever seen someone on a bad acid trip?

Posted by: Ned | June 3, 2009 9:37 AM

Morris Cove,
Have you ever seen someone puking in the curb, on Crown St., from alcohol poisoning? How about drunk skanks and meatheads, from East Haven, in a drunk fight smearing their hair gel and spray on tan all over, while they take wild swings at one another - it ain't pretty. How about fetal alcohol syndrome, cirrhosis, and good old alcoholism? Have you ever seen someone on a crying jag, because they can't handle their booze? It's gross. Where are all of the DMT addicts? (right, there aren't any). As far as your Orange Sunshine fears, tie-dye and body paint are reversible! More selective drug hysteria...

Posted by: Morris Cove | June 3, 2009 6:21 PM

Ned

Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to purchase alcohol, or make it for your own consumtion, not since the 20's, so I don't understand your post.

I was trying to point out the dangers, because some postings were making it seem that it was not a big deal, and how safe it was. I would also like to point out how tough it is to explain to small children that the cops raiding the neighbors house and the team of haz mat officers were there to protect them.

Oh and Ned, the drunk professionals and Yale students stumbling on Crown St., isn't pretty as well, try to keep your elitist comments to yourself.

Posted by: Quox | June 4, 2009 6:22 AM

Morris Cove, there are a number of comments here that show ignorance of their subject matter, but yours wins the prize for its combination of ignorance and arrogance.

You were "trying to point out the dangers" of something you don't know the first thing about -- is that your point? Because that's the point you are communicating to knowledgeable readers.

When you refer to "experts in the field," are you talking about the Drug Enforcement Administration, or Partnership for a Drug-Free America? Because if these groups have any true experts, I can assure you that you never get to hear from them: Both groups' public statements are pure propaganda, entirely unconcerned with the truth.

Posted by: Ned | June 4, 2009 11:14 AM

Morris Cove: "Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to purchase alcohol, or make it for your own consumtion [sic]." Bingo! Prohibition redux - still a failure. The really difficult part in explaining "to small children", or to anyone, the illogical nature of the war on [some] drugs could put anyone on the spot. You'd be better off taking the occasional trip (or abstaining) than you would exposing yourself or your kids everyday to cosmetics and cleaners, paints, solvents, etc. found in the average home.

Posted by: Dragyn | June 10, 2009 4:16 PM

The ignorance from the non-drug crowd here is astounding. Pick up a book you hicks! You can't 'blow up the whole block' with a DMT 'lab', you can't even blow up a portapotty.. Anyone can 'make' it, and quite easily and safely at that... hell, you aren't even 'making' anything when you do it like this. GOD did all the making FOR us =) All this poor guy was doing was extracting what God gave us.

Posted by: G7 | June 13, 2009 2:47 AM

DMT, FACT: released by your brain during REM sleep at night.
DMT, FACT: no deaths have ever occurred from its consumption (can we say that about tobacco, alcohol, or even Tylenol? NO!)
DMT, FACT: Doctors and Shamans alike have used it to treat addicts of destructive drugs such as heroin, cocaine and alcohol.

DMT, FACT: Doctor Rick Strassman researched it extensively at the University of New Mexico, the results published in :"DMT: The Spirit Molecule; A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences"

I must admit this dialog encourages me, when the ratio of enlightened people finally outweighs the uninformed ignorant population.

Posted by: Alex Delarge | June 18, 2009 10:16 AM

Another knee-jerk response from authorities; many of whom know very little about psychedelics beyond the decades-old nonsense that still, sadly, adorns the popular sphere. Although I feel bad for the guy, he also angers me for getting caught. Doing so provides an opportunity for lazy and biased articles such as this to be published. Poorly-researched 'good/bad - cops/crooks' stories help neither pro-drugs or anti-drugs campaigns; they act simply to reiterate unhealthy misconception.