The chemical was first made by renowned ‘counterculture’ chemist and pharmacologist, Alexander Shulgin. Shulgin is often referred to as the ‘Godfather of Ecstasy’ for his scientific and often personal experimentation with MDMA.
It was first distributed in mid 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco, USA. The short appearance of it on the market proved disastrous for several reasons: extremely high dosage of the chemical, as well with a slow onset of action and a very long duration and a lot of people went to the emergency room.
This short-lived appearance of DOM on the black market proved disastrous for several reasons. First, the tablets contained an excessively high dose of the chemical. This, combined with DOM’s slow onset of action (which encouraged some users, familiar with drugs that have quicker onsets, such as LSD, to re-dose) and its remarkably long duration, caused many users to panic and sent some to the emergency room. Second, treatment of such overdoses was complicated by the fact that no one at the time knew that the tablets called STP were, in fact, DOM.
It was first distributed in mid 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco, USA. The short appearance of it on the market proved disastrous for several reasons: extremely high dosage of the chemical, as well with a slow onset of action and a very long duration and a lot of people went to the emergency room.
This short-lived appearance of DOM on the black market proved disastrous for several reasons. First, the tablets contained an excessively high dose of the chemical. This, combined with DOM’s slow onset of action (which encouraged some users, familiar with drugs that have quicker onsets, such as LSD, to re-dose) and its remarkably long duration, caused many users to panic and sent some to the emergency room. Second, treatment of such overdoses was complicated by the fact that no one at the time knew that the tablets called STP were, in fact, DOM.