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Bluelight Crew
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (WVLT) -- It's a drug even some narcotics officers in East Tennessee have never heard of.
That's until Hamblen County investigators found it manufactured in a Morristown neighborhood.
Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a hallucinogen, like LSD or acid that provides a quick high. And unfortunately, like meth, it's easy to make in your kitchen or even on the go.
Clinton Lee Hale, 38, was arrested on Halifax Circle Thursday on a host of charges, including the manufacture of a schedule one drug. Now investigators worry about where they'll see it next.
"It's the first time for us," said Chief Deputy Wayne Mize with the Hamblen County Sheriff's Office.
"It's an ecstasy type drug. Hallucinations. Visions. Color shifting. Also vomiting, diarrhea, all kinds of side effects of it," he said.
Dimethyltryptamine can be found in nature, but this snowflake like stuff is produced synthetically. It's smoked, sniffed or injected for a high that goes quick -- only about 30 minutes, known as a "businessman's trip."
"It is extremely powerful. And why it hasn't caught on before now, I can't guess. Because it's a very strong drug," said Mize.
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Mize says Hale was producing DMT in a simple way, much like shake and bake meth.
"We are going to learn as much as possible about the drug, the distribution, because it is new to us and we expect to find more," he said.
Because investigators know so little about it, Mize says they'll clean it up in full contamination suits like they would a meth lab.
http://www.volunteertv.com/news/headlines/DMT__129992768.html
That's until Hamblen County investigators found it manufactured in a Morristown neighborhood.
Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a hallucinogen, like LSD or acid that provides a quick high. And unfortunately, like meth, it's easy to make in your kitchen or even on the go.
Clinton Lee Hale, 38, was arrested on Halifax Circle Thursday on a host of charges, including the manufacture of a schedule one drug. Now investigators worry about where they'll see it next.
"It's the first time for us," said Chief Deputy Wayne Mize with the Hamblen County Sheriff's Office.
"It's an ecstasy type drug. Hallucinations. Visions. Color shifting. Also vomiting, diarrhea, all kinds of side effects of it," he said.
Dimethyltryptamine can be found in nature, but this snowflake like stuff is produced synthetically. It's smoked, sniffed or injected for a high that goes quick -- only about 30 minutes, known as a "businessman's trip."
"It is extremely powerful. And why it hasn't caught on before now, I can't guess. Because it's a very strong drug," said Mize.
. . .
Mize says Hale was producing DMT in a simple way, much like shake and bake meth.
"We are going to learn as much as possible about the drug, the distribution, because it is new to us and we expect to find more," he said.
Because investigators know so little about it, Mize says they'll clean it up in full contamination suits like they would a meth lab.
http://www.volunteertv.com/news/headlines/DMT__129992768.html
