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What common herb contains DMT?
DMT is not exotic — it's in roadside grasses, common legumes, and your own body. Reed canary grass, Acacia confusa, Mimosa tenuiflora, and Desmodium species all contain it. The DEA's Schedule I classification of an endogenous human neurotransmitter is the real story. Multiple independent ethnobotanists have catalogued this for decades.
Evidence
- According to ethnobotanist Jonathan Ott's landmark 1994 work 'Pharmacotheon,' DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) occurs naturally in dozens of common plant species — a fact the DEA scheduling of DMT as Schedule I deliberately obscures by treating the molecule as if it were rare and exotic.
- Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass), a grass found across North American roadsides and wetlands, contains significant DMT concentrations, as documented by Ott and corroborated by independent laboratory analyses compiled by researcher Jim DeKorne in 'Psychedelic Shamanism' (1994).
- Desmodium species (tick-trefoil), common weedy legumes found throughout temperate zones, also test positive for DMT alkaloids per Ott's alkaloid tables.
- Acacia confusa, widely available as an ornamental, is among the most DMT-dense species documented — a point researcher Trout (of Trout's Notes) has catalogued exhaustively in underground botanical literature.
- Mimosa hostilis (now reclassified as Mimosa tenuiflora) root bark contains extraordinarily high DMT concentrations and has been used in Brazilian Santo Daime and União do Vegetal churches legally under religious exemption.