More than 100 pounds of the street drug known as DMT was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Baltimore. Officials said the drugs were on their way to Harford County.

The seizure consisted of two shipments, each containing 23 black vacuum-sealed bags that officers inspected on July 18 and July 28, according to a news release from Customs and Border Protection.

Inside the 46 vacuum-sealed bags was a brown powdery substance. Samples were sent to the lab, and on Aug. 7, it was confirmed that the substance was dimethyltryptamine, a Schedule I hallucinogenic drug, otherwise known as DMT, according to the release. DMT has no approved medical use in the U.S. Schedule I drugs are defined as those with no currently accepted medical use in the U.S. and a high potential for abuse, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Border protection officials estimate the seized drugs had a street value of roughly $80,000.

In June, Customs and Border Protection officials seized 695 pounds of DMT in Baltimore and said that the shipment was also headed to a Harford County address. Customs and Border Protection officials said the drugs arrived in three air cargo shipments from Chiapas, Mexico, between May 7 and May 27. Each shipment consisted of four boxes containing 100 vacuum-sealed bags of a brown, powdery substance, officials said.

“Customs and Border Protection’s border security mission prioritizes intercepting dangerous drugs, such as DMT, at our nation’s ports of entry that could harm U.S. citizens and destroy our communities,” said Jason Kropiewnicki, CBP’s Acting Area Port Director in Baltimore, in a news release. “The accessibility of dangerous drugs purchased through the global marketplace presents a unique challenge to CBP officers searching for them, but this seizure once again proves that our officers are up to that challenge.”

An investigation is ongoing, according to officials.

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