💧 The rise of 4-AcO-DMT

Welcome back to The Drop-In! If you’re new here, this is DoubleBlind’s newsletter ~our latest project~ where we deliver the latest scoops, cultural odes, and industry tea written by some of the best journalists on the beat.

Today, we’re highlighting a piping-hot issue that our journalists have cumulatively spent a lot of time reporting on: 4-AcO-DMT. If you haven’t heard of it, this psychedelic compound is proliferating in the grey market and being marketed in products as “magic mushrooms.” Some sellers are even calling it “legal shrooms.” 

If you ordered Issue No. 11 of DoubleBlind Magazine, you likely saw our deep dive into the mushroom market and why it seems like shroom products are available everywhere—gas stations, bodegas, smoke shops, dispensaries, etc. I’m not going to tell you what we discovered—we don’t do spoilers here! But I will say that we’ve solicited the investigative skills of the same talented journalist who penned our mag story—Webb Wright (who writes for many stellar publications, by the way, including Scientific American)—to write a separate story on the proliferation of 4-AcO-DMT. The story (linked below!) is another layer in the coverage we’ve quilted together on the mysterious compound and why it suddenly seems like it’s everywhere.

If you haven’t read Issue 11 yet, you can order it here. In the meantime, you can get a taste of the story by reading the equally interesting feature below. We recommend pairing the juiciness of these underground stories with a freshly rolled joint 😚💨

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Mary Carreón
Senior Editor

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