i am enquiring about an illicit drug which a friend was offerred.
apparently it is created by the human body on 2 occasions
only.....when born and in death. i would like any info you may have on
this drug which is entering the open market of substance abuse.with
thanks

Hello.

A quick search on the internet indicates that the drug that your
friend heard about is called DMT.

Below you will find several examples of internet users making the same
claim that your friend heard regarding the human body's supposed
secretion of this drug at birth and death.

"DMT is what is released when you are born and when you die by the
Pineal gland along with a blocker so that it will not be diluted, and
melatonin. At least that is what I have read."
source: philosophyforums.com:
http://forums.philosophyforums.com/showthread.php?t=3239

" Dr. Rick Strassman, author of the briskly selling DMT: The Spirit
Molecule (Inner Traditions; see www.rickstrassman.com) focuses the
search for a biochemical catalyst for spirituality on a single
endogenous compound, DMT, the most powerful hallucinogen known. In the
early Nineties, he conducted FDA-approved research on human subjects
with the material. In his book, he posits the theory that blasts of
resident DMT from the pineal gland at key moments of stress, including
birth and death, are responsible for spiritual
awakenings."
source: sixties list; hosted by virginia.edu:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/4144.html

"There is this poular designer drug called DMT or 5-MeO-DMT (a few
other variations that I am not so familiar with)
  Anyway. When you die (correct me if I am wrong) your brain releases
this chemical. "
source: livejournal.com
http://www.livejournal.com/users/anowyn/737132.html

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Information about DMT:

DMT, hosted by drugscope.org.uk
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/druginfo/drugsearch/ds_results.asp?file=\wip\11\1\1\dmt.html

Drugs of Abuse - HALLUCINOGENS, from drugfreeworkplace.com
http://www.drugfreeworkplace.com/drugsofabuse/hallucinogens.htm

"Psilocybin & Psilocyn and other Tryptamines" from usdoj.gov
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/psilocybin.html

For more information, run Google searches about the drug DMT and a
variant called "5-MeO-DMT" :
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=dmt+drug+&btnG=Google+Search
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%225-MeO-DMT%22+&btnG=Google+Search

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search strategy:
drug, "when you die", releases
dmt, birth, death
dmt, drug

I hope this helps.

Wished to comment on one of the quotes you were given in "answers".
DMT, although I have never heard of it, cannot possibly be the
strongest hallcuinogenic ever found, because Ergot from which LSD is
derived- in millionths of a grain- is deadly. Ergot is known to grow
on Rye in particularly wet seasons, and if ground up and used to
produce bakery bread etc. can lead to serious hallucinations, illness
and death. This was first documented to have occurred to an entire
village in France a couple centuries ago which initially brought it to
the attention of scientists. If you look up Ergot on the web I'm sure
you'll find much more accurate information than my memory provides.
Cheers!

Hi Squishkate,

The quote "...DMT, the most powerful hallucinogen..." comes from an
article written by Charles Hayes in Tikkun Magazine. Whether DMT
really is the most powerful is, of course, open to debate. Thanks for
sharing your expertise.

The question here, though, is what drug is supposedly created by the
human body on two occasions (birth and death).  DMT is the drug that
is reputed to have that characteristic.  Whether DMT really has such a
property is also open to debate.  The point is that's the "word on the
street" about this drug, and, as such, it's the drug that this
customer's friend heard about.

-juggler