Birnbaum, Alan

Cremieux, Pierre-Yves, Pierre Ouellette, Marie-Clause Meflleur, Stephanie Leong, Paul Greenberg, and Howard Birnbaum. 2001. Pharmaceutical Spending and Health Outcomes in the United States, in Investing in Health The Social and Economic Benefits of Health Care Innovation, ed. by Irina Farquhar, Kent Summers, and Alan Sorkin, 59-76. Oxford Elsevier Science. 

Meanwhile, the church went on buying and selling peyote, in many instances from vendors licensed by the government who weren t themselves peyotists. Receipts went to the DEA and to the Department of Public Safety in Texas. Alan Birnbaum, a leader in this church, began a correspondence with the Commissioner of the Department of Narcotics in Albany, New York. He asked to be licensed as a distributor of peyote and made the commissioner aware that he had been receiving shipments of peyote for several years. 

DPT and 5-methoxy-DMT are still legal and have been used in certain circles for years. Alan Birnbaum, from the Native American Church of New York, wrote to the DEA about the legal status of several DMT-Iike compounds. In January 1980, Howard McClain of the Regulatory Control Division responded ... 

More often, these tryptamines are smoked because less is needed to feel the effects, which arrive in a matter of only a few seconds. The DMT peak lasts for three to ten minutes, and it s all over in twenty to thirty minutes. DET and DPT, which have more subtle effects than DMT, may take a few minutes to register, although, as Alan Birnbaum writes in regard to DPT, "some people have reported to be immediately immersed in the light on the first toke. DET lasts about an hour when smoked the most intense part of a DPT experience is over in about twenty minutes. 

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