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Drug users have devised a method of altering electronic cigarettes to vaporise a dangerous drug nicknamed "psychedelic crack".

The simple "hack" is being shared openly on online forums including Reddit, with users showing each other how easy it is to consume the Class A drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMT.

This drug is so strong that users report encountering alien beings and travelling into strange new worlds.

It is significantly stronger than comparable narcotics like LSD but relatively short-lasting, which has led to its comparison with the quick-acting cocaine derivative crack.

Some e-cigs generate exactly the right temperature to vaporise the super-strong drug.

"People are always looking for an easy way to consume DMT," wrote one man on the social media platform Reddit. "I love the e-cig idea."

"Of the five strongest psychedelic experiences I have had in my life, I would say three have been by vaping," continued another. "Two or three hits handed me a hefty incapacitation [sic] and quite the journey."

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One user suggested a sick game which could be played by anyone who had mastered the technique.

"You could play vape roulette, where you pass around the nicotine at a party and one in six gets the DMT," he wrote. "You could maybe flavour it somehow so they wouldn't know until it hits them."

Although the modification is simple, getting it wrong can prove dangerous. Some people claim to have attempted it and "burned" their lungs from the hot vapour.

The drug is derived from a naturally-occurring compound which is commonly used by tribes as part of religious rituals.

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Until recently, DMT was relatively rare, but it has increased in popularity following the rise of online drugs markets like Silk Road or Agora, which allow dealers to sell their lethal wares to addicts across the world. Most drugs markets offer DMT for sale.

Also known as the "spirit molecule", DMT is said to send its users into another world where they meet seeing strange entities. Drug folklore even suggests many people encounter "mechanical elves".

Sold as a largely odourless powder and requiring tiny amounts to produce super strong effects, this has made it an ideal drug to be sold online and posted to the buyer. It is not generally sold as a street drug and is not encountered by addiction specialists, because users do not become reliant on it.

Harry Shapiro of the British charity Drugscope said that e-cigs were a perfect tool for consuming all sorts of drugs.

"This is a very powerful hallucinogenic drug, there's no doubt about that," he said. "You can adapt those e-cigs to smoke just about anything. Not just what you are supposed to."