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Akasha Song(本名 Joseph Clements)是 43 岁美国人,以暗网代号「Shimshai」经营 DMT 生意:用在美国西部多处秘密实验室,把合法进口的 jurema preta(树根皮)萃取成非法 DMT,累积贩售「数千万剂」。他的产能从手作玻璃罐扩到 4 个 35 加仑桶,再到 10 个桶;高峰时宣称每 10 天可做出 1 公斤以上,改良后甚至达到「每 3 天一个 5 公斤玻璃桶」、约「每月 100 万剂」的量级。订单也从暗网起步「三周内到每天 40 单」,后来攀到「每天接近 100 单」、再到奥斯汀时期「每天约 200 单、日营收约 1.5 万美元」。

供应链与风险同样随规模放大:他在巴西(2021 年 4 月)找到遍地 jurema 的来源后,谈到每公斤 26 美元(相较先前每公斤 100 美元),并当场下单 1,000 公斤(40 箱、逾 1 吨)。他也尝试洗钱与分散市场,却遇到多次断崖:2017 年 AlphaBay 被查封导致帐上损失 32,000 美元;2018 年左右科罗拉多 Evergreen 的 40 英亩牧场「谷仓实验室」爆炸失火(火柱约 14 英尺、出动 25 名消防员),之后又有 3 公斤包裹被查扣,欠批发客近 60,000 美元;他一度转向跨境走私氯胺酮,宣称每趟可赚约 100,000 美元,且成功「超过半打」往返。

执法收网以「树皮」为突破口:2022 年 4 月,海关/国土安全部门拦截并控制近 200 公斤树皮的递送与取件,进一步在 2022 年 6 月取得搜查令并逮捕他。起诉核心最初以约 300 公斤「未加工 DMT」计重、最高可能 40 年;但 DEA 检测树皮中 DMT 含量「低于 1%」,使受控物重量从约 300 公斤降到约 3 公斤。加上科罗拉多在 2022 年投票将包括 DMT 在内的多种迷幻物质非刑事化,他在 2023 年 2 月被判 24 个月(其中约三分之一已服完),再约 8 个月后出狱接受缓刑;到 2025 年(文章刊于 2025 年 5 月 22 日)受访时,他已花光或被没收大部分资产,却仍把自己的「幸运」与法律时机视为关键转折。

Akasha Song (legal name Joseph Clements), a 43-year-old American, built a dark-web DMT brand under the alias “Shimshai,” scaling from mason-jar extraction to industrial setups (4 then 10 barrels of 35 gallons). He claimed output rose to >1 kg per ~10 days and later to a 5-kg batch every 3 days—about 1 million doses per month—while demand climbed from ~40 orders/day within 3 weeks to ~100/day and, in Austin, ~200/day (about $15,000/day).

Margins and exposure both intensified. In Brazil (April 2021) he secured jurema bark at $26/kg versus ~$100/kg previously and immediately ordered 1,000 kg (40 boxes, >1 ton). Market disruptions and mishaps hit repeatedly: AlphaBay’s 2017 takedown cost him $32,000 in escrow; a Colorado lab barn fire involved a ~14-foot flame and 25 firefighters; a seized 3-kg shipment left him owing nearly $60,000; he also described ketamine smuggling runs netting ~$100,000 each, more than half a dozen times.

Federal investigators used intercepted bark shipments to identify and surveil him, leading to a home search warrant by June 2022 and arrest. Prosecutors initially treated ~300 kg of bark as “unprocessed DMT,” implying up to 40 years, but DEA testing found <1% DMT, shrinking the controlled-substance weight to ~3 kg. With Colorado’s 2022 psychedelic decriminalization shifting the broader climate, he ultimately received 24 months in February 2023 (with ~1/3 already served) and was released about 8 months later on probation; by the May 22, 2025 publication date, he reported his fortune largely spent or seized.

2026-01-05 (Monday) · efdac5fffa99a2219ba2b3ae8c7b075e687c920b