In the murky world of psychedelic drug distribution, few stories are as wild and unexpected as that of Joseph Clements, better known as Akasha Song. What began as a spiritual quest through psychedelics transformed into a multi-million dollar dark web DMT empire that spanned years and continents.

Clements wasn’t your typical drug dealer. A Texas native with a tumultuous past, he discovered LSD as a teenager and found himself drawn to transformative experiences that challenged his perception of reality. By his mid-30s, he had reinvented himself as Akasha Song, a self-styled “medicine man” who believed DMT was more than just a substance, it was a gateway to understanding consciousness.

His operation started small: making DMT in mason jars and selling at music festivals. But as demand grew, so did his ambition. Using dark web markets like AlphaBay, Akasha (under the handle Shimshai) began selling hundreds of doses daily, developing a reputation for high-quality product with a distinctive rainbow-mind logo.

Akasha’s business grew exponentially. He set up sophisticated labs across Colorado, developed advanced extraction techniques, and even traveled to Brazil to secure direct sources of jurema bark, the primary ingredient in DMT production. At his peak, he was producing up to a million doses monthly and expanding into other psychedelics.

Despite the massive scale of his operation, Akasha maintained a spiritual perspective. He saw himself not as a criminal, but as someone providing a transformative “medicine” to seekers. His DMT trips had convinced him that reality was a kind of cosmic play, and he was simply participating.

His luck finally ran out in 2022 when Homeland Security executed a carefully planned sting operation. Intercepting a shipment of jurema bark, they tracked and eventually raided his Boulder home. After a complex legal battle that hinged on technicalities and Colorado’s emerging psychedelic decriminalization, Akasha was sentenced to just 24 months.

Today, out on probation, Akasha reflects on his journey with an almost supernatural optimism. “I’m not going to die and go to hell or heaven,” he says. “It’s a play. It’s just God having a good time being everything”.

His story is a testament to the complex intersections of spirituality, entrepreneurship, and the evolving landscape of psychedelic substances in America.