Erowid 5-MeO-DMT Vault : Timeline

5-MeO-DMT

Timeline

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Late 8th Century		Burial site in N. Chile includes bag with snuffing paraphernalia and snuff remnants containing DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and bufotenin. 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 has been reported to contain N,N-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and bufotenin. 1 [Details] During his second voyage (November 1493), Columbus asked friar Ramon Pane to produce a report on the religion of the Taino (native inhabitants of Hispaniola-1496). Pane's report, finished around 1498 is considered today the first European ethnography of the "New World" (see the recent English translation by Duke University press; J. Arrom's version). In it, along with information about Taino myth and spirituality, the first European report on the use of cohoba-yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina/DMT) can be found, in shamanic context. Pane R. An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: Chronicles of the New World Encounter. (1496) 1999. Duke Univ Pr.
1560		Indians along the Rio Guaviare in Colombia take yopo along with tobacco.
16th - 19th Century		Cohoba snuff from the yopo tree used by natives of Columbia and surrounding areas.
1936		5-MeO-DMT is first synthesized [Disputed] 2, 3 [Details] See: Hoshino, Toshio & Kenya Shimodaira. 1936. "Über die Synthese des Bufotenin-Methyl-Äthers (5-Methoxy-N-Dimethyl-Tryptamin) und Bufotenins. Synthesen in der Indol-Gruppe. XV," Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 11: 221-224. Stoll, A.; Troxler, F.; Peyer, J.; Hofmann, A. 1955. "Eine neue Synthese von Bufotenin und verwandten Oxytryptamine" in Helvetica Chimica Acta 38: 1452-1472. and: Benington, F.; Morin, R.D.; and Leland C. Clark (1958). "Synthesis of O- and N-Methylated Derivatives of 5-Hydroxytryptamine," Journal of Organic Chemistry 23(12): 1977-1979. and: Young, J. Chem. Soc. 3493 (1958)
1959		5-MeO-DMT is identified for the first time as a naturally occurring product, having been detected in the plant Dictyloma incanescens. 4
1968		5-MeO-DMT is found in the venom of the Bufo alvarius toad.
1971-1987		Beginning around 1971 and continuing through the late 1980s, 5-MeO-DMT was discretely available as a sacrament to members of the Church of the Tree of Life through the Inner Center. Additional legal psychoactives were also available. After 1987, the Inner Center also began providing their sacraments to members of some other religious groups. 5, 6, 7 [Details] The Church of the Tree of Life already had over 6000 members in 1979 and likely grew substantially after mention of it (with mailing address) in the 1979 edition of Psychedelics Reconsidered by Grinspoon and Bakalar. In 1987, the Inner Center sold their 5-MeO-DMT in the form of 50 mg of 5-MeO-DMT deposited on 250 mg of parsley flakes for $50.
1970-1990		There is some recreational use of 5-MeO-DMT, though the pure material is rare and difficult to come by. Smoking of Bufo toad venom and limited availability on parsley through the Church of the Tree of Life are probably the most common forms of 5-MeO-DMT ingested in the U.S. during this period.
c. 1992		5-MeO-DMT becomes available commercially through mail-order.
Jan 19, 2011		5-MeO-DMT becomes Schedule I in the U.S. 8 [Details] [More Info] 5-MeO-DMT becomes Schedule I in the United States on Jan 19, 2011. The Drug Enforcement Administration completed the steps necessary to make 5-MeO-DMT illegal in December; as of Jan 19, 2011, it is illegal to buy, sell, or possess without a license.

References

Ott J. Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines. Entheobotanica, 2001.
Hoshino T, Shimodaira K. 1936. "Über die Synthese des Bufotenin-Methyl-Äthers (5-Methoxy-N-Dimethyl-Tryptamin) und Bufotenins. Synthesen in der Indol-Gruppe. XV". Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 11:221-4.
"Smoking Toad". The New York Times Magazine. Jun 5, 1994;48-9.
Pachter IJ, et al. "Indole alkaloids of Acer saccharinum, Dictyloma incanescens, Pipdenia colubrina, and Mimosa hostilis". J Organic Chem. 24:1285-1287.
Comments on DEA 331 PROPOSED RULE: Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine Into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
Inner Center. 5-MeO-DMT Order Blank. 1987. Unpublished Erowid copy.
Inner Center. Sacramental Status report. 1987. Unpublished Erowid copy.
Federal Register. December 20, 2010. 75(243).