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Death of Tony Birkholz
According to the testimony of an alleged eyewitness, Penelope Salcido, on January 17, 2017, after drinking and eating heavily, Mr. Hardison and two others allegedly consumed a substance believed by the Teton County Wyoming Coroner, Mr. Brent Blue to be 5-MeO-DMT. One of them, Mr. Anthony Birkholz died from aspiration of vomitus.

Officially pronounced dead at the Idaho Regional Medical Center in Eastern Idaho after a life-flight from a local Teton County Wyoming hospital, the Coroner there ruled Mr. Birkholz's cause of death as “natural”. Months later, having heard rumors of the possible ingestion of DMT or 5-MeO-DMT, the Wyoming Coroner, Mr. Blue "hastily" convened the first inquest in Teton County, Wyoming in 30 years.

On May 17, 2017 after a two-day inquest, having been told by Mr. Blue there were no traces of DMT or 5-MeO-DMT found in Mr. Birkholz's blood, the three inquest jurors declared Mr. Birkholz died from aspiration of vomitus. Birkholz likely choked on his own vomit due to an unprotected airway, a risk associated with excessive alcohol consumption. Birkholz taking 5-MeO-DMT could have also been the cause for him vomiting—a fairly common occurrence when taking Tryptamine type substances, particularly Ayahuasca, but also of drinking and eating to excess.

Although Mr. Blue was in telephone contact with Mr. Hardison on both days of the inquest, curiously, Mr. Hardison wasn't invited to testify.