Jason H. Sklerov, Barry Levine, Karla A. Moore, Theodore King, David Fowler; A Demand for Clarity Regarding a Case Report on the Ingestion of 5-Methoxy-N,
A case of a 25-year-old white male who was found dead the morning after consuming herbal extracts containing beta-carbolines and hallucinogenic tryptamines is presented. No anatomic cause of death was found at autopsy. Toxicologic analysis of the heart blood identified N,N-dimethyltryptamine (0.02 mg/L), 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (1.88 mg/L), tetrahydroharmine (0.38 mg/L), harmaline...