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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Ayahuasca

DMT is a short acting psychedelic, but it's not orally acting by itself. The indigenous people have done when they prepare ayahuasca, they combine it with another plant that contains monoeamine oxidase inhibitors. This class of compounds called beta carblines are very potent and selective MAO inhibitors. Instead of a 10 to 20 minute experience, which you get when you smoke DMT or vape DMT, in the oral form, it stretches it out to six or seven hours. It's more profound because the thing with taking DMT by a parenteral route, other than through the gut, it is profound.

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