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Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2020 Jan 7;167:107933. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.107933

Table 3.

Human potency data for selected hallucinogens.

# Compound Human hallucinogenic potency (dose range in mg) Arithmetic mean of the dose range Salt form Routea Reference
1 LSD 0.06 – 0.2 0.13 mg 326 nmol Hemitartrate PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
2 AL-LAD 0.08 – 0.16 0.12 mg 343 nmol Hemitartrate PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
3 SS-LSZ 0.1 – 0.3 0.2 mg 487 nmol Hemitartrate PO Erowid.com “common”
4 25I-NBOMe 0.5 – 0.7 0.6 mg 1.29 μmol Hydrochloride SL or BUC Psychonautwiki.org “common”
5 DOB-DFLY 0.2 – 0.8 0.5 mg 1.51 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Trachsel et al. 2013)
6 25I-NBOH 0.5 – 0.9 0.7 mg 1.83 μmol Hydrochloride SL or BUC Psychonautwiki.org “common”
y 25D-NBOMe 0.8 – 1 0.9 mg 2.49 μmol Hydrochloride SL or BUC Psychonautwiki.org “common”
s DOB-FLY 1 2.99 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin et al. 2011)
9 £-(-)-DOI 1 – 2.3 1.65 mg 5.14 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
10 DOB 1 – 3 2 mg 6.44 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
11 DOC 1.5 – 3 2.25 mg 8.45 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
12 DOET 2 – 6 4 mg 15.4 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
13 5-MeO-AMT 2.5 – 4.5 3.5 mg 17.1 μmol Freebase PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
14 DOM 3 – 10 6.5 mg 26.5 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
15 DOBU 10 34.7 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Braun et al. 1978)
16 2C-B-FLY 10 – 18 14 mg 43.7 μmol Hydrochloride PO Psychonautwiki.org “common”
17 2C-I 14 – 22 18 mg 52.4 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
18 Psilocybin 10 – 20 15 mg 52.8 μmol Freebase PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
19 4-HO-DIPT 15 – 20 17.5 mg 59.0 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
20 5-MeO-DALT 12 – 25 18.5 mg 60.3 μmol Hydrochloride PO Erowid.com “common”
21 2C-B 12 – 24 18 mg 60.7 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
22 4-HO-MPT 20 – 30 25 mg 71.8 μmol Fumarate PO Psychonautwiki.org“common”
23 4-HO-DET 10 – 25 17.5 mg 75.3 μmol Freebase PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
24 4-HO-MIPT 12 – 25 18.5 mg 79.6 μmol Freebase PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1997)
25 3C-P 20 – 40 30 mg 104 μmol Hydrochloride PO Tripsit.me “common”
26 TMA-2 20 – 40 30 mg 115 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
27 MEM 20 – 50 35 mg 146 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
28 Proscaline 30 – 60 45 mg 163 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
29 3C-E 30 – 60 45 mg 163 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
30 DPT 30 – 70 50 mg 178 μmol Freebase IM (Faillace et al. 1967; Soskin et al. 1973)
31 Escaline 40 – 60 50 mg 191 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
32 DET 50 – 70 60 mg 277 μmol Freebase IM (Boszormenyi et al. 1959; Szara et al. 1966)
33 DMT 50 – 100 75 mg 398 μmol Freebase IM (Szara 1957; Gillin et al. 1976)
34 MDA 80 – 160 120 mg 556 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
35 TMA 100 – 250 175 mg 669 μmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
36 Mescaline 178 – 356 267 mg 1.08 mmol Hydrochloride PO (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991)
a

BUC, buccal; IM, intramuscular; PO, orally; SL, sublingually.