Subject: Re: IT-290 ?? What's it like ?

From: [email-masked] (Robert Greer)
Date: 25 Dec 1994 06:23:06 GMT

>>There is very little literature about this drug in
>>the drug archives.  I read about it in _The Electric Kool Aid
>>Acid Test_, but it didn't really say what it was like.

>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.
>
IT-290 is alpha-methyltryptamine.  It is is the tryptamine analogue of
amphetamine.  In the USSR it was used as an MAO inhibitor, and a
effective dose will inhibitor your MAO completely.  (This effect is 
dangerous *and* invariable causes temporary sexual impotence.)  The
trip is said to be quite nice but very long lasting (12 hours or more),
like acid except that you can remember your name and where you left your
car keys, etc.  However, it is poorly absorbed and toxic: the first 30
to 60 minutes is usually a gradually increasing nausea that reaches
truly rechid (sic.) proportions: you vomit several times, dry heaving near the
end of this phase.  Then, when you're *really* sorry you ate it, the
lift starts and everything is fine.  Except that you can't fuck (although
you still have the appetite - and this applies to men *and* women) and
your MAO is so depleted that you had better avoid a lot of other foods
and drugs.

To be blunt, there are good reasons why it is not popular.