DMT
Timeline
| Late 8th Century | Burial site in N. chile includes bag with snuffing paraphernalia and snuff remnants containing DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, & Bufotenine. Other sites include seeds of Anadenanthera spp. | |
| 1496 | Friar Ramon Pane documented the use of a psychoactive snuff called cohoba/yopo among the Taino who inhabited the island of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic). It is now agreed that cohoba/yopo was almost certainly made from Anadenanthera peregrina which contains N,N-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and Bufotenin. 1 [Details] | |
| 16th - 19th Century | Cohoba snuff from the Yopo tree used by natives of Columbia and surrounding areas. | |
| 1560 | Indians along the Rio Guaviare in Colombia take Yopo along with tobacco. | |
| 1571 | Incan medicine men make prophecies through inebriation brought about by drinking vilca, a DMT containing preparation of A. colubrina. | |
| 1741 | A Jesuit writes about cohoba use by the native people between Colombia and Venezuela. | |
| 1801 | Baron Alexander Humboldt identified the yopo tree as Anadenanthera peregrina | |
| 1931 | DMT first synthesized by British chemist Richard Manske and named "nigerine". | |
| 1939 | Virola genus identified as the source of a psychoactive snuff called epena used in Amazoniana Columbia, Venezuela and Western Brazil. | |
| 1955 | n,n-DMT is identified as one of the psychoactive ingredients of the A. peregrina seeds used to make cohoba snuff. This marked the first time that n,n-DMT was discovered naturally occuring in a plant or animal. 2 | |
| Mar 1968 | U.S.: The Bureau of Drug Abuse Control notes in Microgram that DMT is available on the street, both as a powder, and "impregnated on marihuana and tea". 3 | |
| 1971 | N,N-DMT becomes illegal in the U.S. with the passage of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. |
References
- Ott J. Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines. Entheobotanica, 2001.