Nope not suprised at all. 5meo is one of the strongest(psychedelic) chems.. though like n,n it is found naturally in quite a few plants/seeds/trees, so good luck with eraticating it from the planet(lol). and if you think the dea/supposed powers that be haven't know about all these chems from the get go... like it's some big secret here in our own community, well then you fool yourself. Tihkal and Pihkal are internationally published books and can be read by um.. anyone.

Just picked up "Tryptamine Palace" by Oroc. Good read so far. Nice mention of our fearless mod. =)

How will this effect possession and sale of the toad?

Since this is still in the proposal stage, is it worth writing my local rep. or other officials? Have any of you done this already? I notice a call for Public Comments... any thought of gathering together to write a letter?

Sad, truly sad. I mean, do these guys have a definition of Schedule I I'm unaware of?

--
Kenneth

Well, I knew this would happen sooner or later ... and since some of you think that my book Tryptamine Palace is some how responsible for the impending schedule change for 5-MeO-DMT, I guess I had better throw my two cents worth in.

Lets examine the Timeline:

2002: Operation Web Tryp was launched by the DEA in 2002 after police busted a "rave-party" at Hampton roads Navel Base in Virginia, and the sailors told the cops that they had bought their drugs (2-CI?) off the internet.

In July of 2004 - while I was down in the Sonora chasing toads with Yo-Yo - the boot came down, and the feds arrested 10 people running 5 different research chemical labs. ("This is Your Country on Drugs", Ryan Grim)

Point 1 * The sale of compounds on the internet, and the spread of those sales via information web sites (just like this one) is the Number 1 reason 5-MeO-DMT started on the path to Schedule 1 ...prior to that the Feds didnt even know what it was.

2005-2006: 5-MeO-DMT virtually drops off the internet, other than by scam web-sites offering 'Legal Acid'.
One of the big English Newspapers runs an article calling 5-MeO-DMT, 'The New Ecstacy' and reveals the fact that it could
be bought on the internet,

2006 -2007 I gift 500 copies (in 2 versions) of Tryptamine Palace at Burning Man. By this time I personally can no longer find 5-MeO-DMT any where (and still cant). I write - in my book - that I considered not writing the book at all, because I was afraid of 'ruining a good thing', but by the time I gift the first playa versions that seems irrelevant any way.

2008 My book is discussed on Martin Ball's 'The Entheogenic Evolution Pod-Cast' before he has ever tried 5-MeO and I can tell he is a little skeptical. Weeks later he tries it , and is 100% converted - Martin then writes his book in an astonishingly short time (as he does!). Inner Traditions accept my book for publication just as I am about to self-publish, so I go back to work. In the end I wrote 9 full versions of Tryptamine Palace with 3 different editors to get to the final version which is now available. The Burning Man editions were Versions 1 and 2!

2008. As interest in my book grows, more and more people ask me - including well know psychedelic authors, DJ's, artists etc ... I buy some supposed 5-MeO at a festival in SoCal that is bunk. I hear rumors of over seas web sites that will ship to the US, but no one can ever show me an effective link, so if these exist, they are being kept very secret.

Jan 2009 or so ... Martin releases his book
June 2009 Inner Traditons release 'Tryptamine Palace'

August 2009 ... DEA announces re-scheduling of 5-Meo - DMT...


Point 2 * Now, as much as I might like to think my work is that influential, I don't think anyone who knows any thing about the federal government would believe that 3 months after the publication of an obscure book with a readership of less than 5000. the Feds would leap into action by making the compound involved illegal - personally, I thoroughly doubt that the DEA even knows my books exists, it took them 2 years to figure out that the Shulgins had published PIHKAL!

Point 3 * The Internet and Newspaper articles have reached hundreds of thousands of homes, if not millions, in comparison. Any concerned parent can google the subject and read the harrowing trip reports on EROWID, or even worse, the You Tube videos of idiot kids smoking it in front of the TV while drinking beers etc etc ... And judging from the number of emails I am receiving, most of my readership seems to be OUTSIDE of the US anyway.

Final Point * Jon Hanna, from Mind States, was the original editor of my book, and has been noted, Dimi 3 himself has endorsed it - I am sure that if either of these individuals had thought that my book would negatively effect the sincere use of this compound, they would not have offered their project.

In conclusion, I would like to point out that in my book advocates the point-of-view that 5-MeO-DMT is not drug, but the most sacred entheogen of all. And while my book is a wild 'trip-report' of sorts, I worked very hard to uncover every nugget of info about 5-MeO-DMT, and about DMT, that I could find, since there was precious little information out there, and I was worried about people over-dosing as I had done (twice). If we are ever going to win the battle to make entheogens both legal and a respected part of our spirituality, then we have to inform the general public about the power and beauty of these compounds so a real debate on these compounds value can begin... this is some thing which I feel I have accomplished with 'Tryptamine Palace', while if I had done nothing, 5-MeO-DMT still would have been rescheduled, and the void of information would still exist.

In line with this philosophy, I am currently building www.TryptaminePalace.com, which hopefully will become the leading source of information on the Tryptamine family on the web. There will be a forum page similar to these ones, so I hope you all check it out!

Oroc.

PS I dont think the rescheduling will really affect the rare pursuit of toading ... to date 5-MeO-DMT has actually only been found in a single sample of toad venom back in the 60's ... prosecute, they would have to catch you with the dried venom in hand, then test it etc etc ... pretty unlikely in my opinion (This is the same reason its hard to bust people for mushrooms ... its the psilocybin thats illegal, not the shroom itself ...)

PPS You do all know that TIHKAL - which was totally a slap in the fact of the Federal Government after the hassles the Shulgins got from writing PIHKAL - means 'Tryptamines I have Known and Loved'. And that it has the formula for 5-MeO-DMT in it. And has sold over 60,00 copies. And that pretty much every Drug enforcement Agency in the world has a copy of it ...

But I dont hear anyone blaming Sasha for anything ...;