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- From: ppennane@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Petrus Pennanen)
- Subject: Re: IT-290????
- Message-ID: <1993Jun3.135727.22274@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:57:27 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jun2.142946.8690@news.media.mit.edu> pierre@media.mit.edu (Pierre St. Hilaire) writes:
- > IT-290 is an anticholinergic drug related to scopolamine and
- >the other tropane alkaloids found in solanaceous plants.
-
- No. IT-290 (alfa-methyl-tryptamine):
-
-
- // \ /\ NH2
- // \ ____/ \ /
- | || || |
- | || || |
- \\ /\ / CH3
- \\ / \ /
- N
- H
-
- Oral dosage 30 mg.
-
- Source:
- Mckenna, Dennis J. & Towers, G.H.N. 1984. Biochemistry and Pharmacology of
- Tryptamines and beta-Carbolines: A Minireview. J Psychoactive Drugs 16(4).
-
- --
- Petrus.Pennanen@helsinki.fi Everything is perfect forever.
- We are one.
-
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-
- From: brundegj@essex.hsc.colorado.edu (James Brundege)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.psychedelics
- Subject: Re: IT-290 ?? What's it like ?
- Date: 26 Dec 1994 11:24:24 -0700
- Message-ID: <3dn1ooINN5li@essex.hsc.colorado.edu>
-
- In article <3dfuuf$nkm@nntp1.u.washington.edu> lamont@hyperreal.com (Lamont Granquist) writes:
-
- >What *is* the chemical structure of it? "IT-290" is vaguly familiar,
- >but offhand i can't recall what structure it goes with. The chemical
- >name would be much more useful.
- >
- >Actually, this should probably go in the alt.drugs FAQ somewhere. Names
-
- >Lamont Granquist (lamont@hyperreal.com)
-
- Uh, I think this has already been discussed here. For completeness I'll
- just repost the article I downloaded some time ago.
-
- James Brundege
-
-
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-
- Article 1081 (7 more) in alt.drugs.psychedelics:
- From: chris
-
- Subject: Re: IT-290
- Date: 10 Nov 1994 02:23:59 GMT
- Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
-
- Reginald Carey <shinchan@cts.com> writes:
-
- >Hey,
-
- > I have a question. Is there anyone out there that has
- >experience (either subjective or objective) with the drug IT-290. It's
- >chemical name is alpha-methyltryptamine ( or 3-(2-Aminopropyl)indole) and
- >it was manufactured by Sandoz and Upjohn under various trade names. I'm
- >just looking for the effects that it causes but if you happen to have
- >worked a synthesis, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks in advance.
-
- >Carpe Trunkem...
-
- YES! I happen to have experienced alfa-methyltryptamine! A few months ago
- I posted a question to meet any colleagues on the net, without any luck then.
-
- I am a biochemist and I found an old container with alfa-M that was going
- to be disposed when the fridges of my lab had to be cleaned out.
- Nobody remembered who ever ordered it or what it ever had been used for.
- So I took care of that ;-))!
- Because of its structure it was likely that it was either a psychedelic
- like psilocybine or it could have stimulant properties because it also
- looks like amphetamine.
-
- To be precis it was from Aldrich Europe in Belgium,
- the bottle says: alfa-Methyltryptamine 99% MW 174.25
- It looks like a somewhat off-white powder of tiny crystals,
- with a strong smell of indole and skatole ( not really nice crap smell)
- It must have been te free-base because it evaporated over a small flame
- without charring or leaving any residue, which came in handy
- because this way it was "baseable"
-
- The vial was tiny and there must have been about 100 mgram in there.
-
- I had been warned for these tryptamines because once I O.D.ed myself on
- 10 mg!! (hardly a pencilpoint big of an amount) of
- 5 MeO-NN-Dimethyltryptamine,, the stronger brother of DMT.
- ( that was back in those days, 1984, when Sigma Chemical still sold this
- stuff without any questions asked , alas..)
-
- So, I started out with 4 mg intranasally, whch burns and smells bad
- The effect took quite a while to come on , even by this route of ingestion.
- After half a hour BINGO a very slowly building of A DEFINITIVE PSYCHEDELIC!
- feeling came on. It keeps building slowly but strongly for another two hours
- untill a plateau is reached which lasts almost four hours after which a very
- slow decline sets in. 18 hours after ingestion, after 7 hours of sleep I
- awoke still feeling the effect.
-
- Qualitatively, I found it very comparable to the general effects of
- psilocybine, maybe milder with a less intense, but much longer peak.
- It certainly is a very maneageable experience, not as profound as LSD,
- i.e. no compulsive, unstoppable 'thought trains' (DMT) or 'internal
- dialogues' that i usually have on acid an that get boring after a few times.
- Just a lot of very good spirit, energetic feeling, enhanced colors,
- attractive rhytms in music. Party Stuff!, even at 5mg.
- A very ideal compound I would say! (Just thinking of it right now gets me
- back into that feeling.... Oh you alt.psychedlics readers know.
-
- I was surprised by the pharmacokinetic effect of a slight rearrangement
- of the methyl(s) i.e on the alpha carbon instead of on the 'N'
-
- Whereas my 5MeODMT experiences at 5 mg were very intense but lasted only
- half an hour, Alfa-M stays with you for at least a whole evening,
- of partying. I.e. going out to a place with good music on a quiet
- evening, where you have some space to jerk around, while having a
- few carefull beers.
- What I especially liked about the stuff is that it acts so 'reliably'
- long. You're already feeling good after an hour and there's still so much
- ahead!
-
- On other occassions me and a friend ingested it by evaporating a tiny little
- heap on a piece of alufoil over a lighter flame and inhaling the vapour
- through a tube, with the same effect, but very controlable.
-
- The bottle is empty now, and i have no clue where or how to obtain some more.
-
- But.. it's shroom season again!
-
- Chris
-