Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal · 21 Feb 2017 · 407pp · 90,238 words
provides us with more diverse data to consider. And perhaps no one played a bigger role in rewriting those rules than renegade chemist Alexander Shulgin. The Johnny Appleseed of Psychedelics Alexander Shulgin was called many names over the course of his career. Wired dubbed him “Professor X,”11 while the New York Times preferred
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. the New York Times preferred “Dr. Ecstasy”: Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy,” New York Times, January 30, 2005. 13. “Gandalf” was not uncommon: Brian Vastag, “Chemist Alexander Shulgin, Popularizer of the Drug Ecstasy, Dies at 88,” Washington Post, June 3, 2014. 14. Sasha Shulgin was born in Berkeley: For a great introduction to
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. Sasha’s interest,” explains Johns Hopkins: Ibid. 17. The Shulgin Rating Scale: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulgin_Rating_Scale. 18. At 22 milligrams: Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin, PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Berkeley, CA: Transform Press, 1991), p. 560. 19. Richard Meyers, a spokesperson for the DEA: Bennett, ”Dr
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
to a process that’s far too difficult and expensive to be profitable. One of the few others known to have accomplished the feat is Alexander Shulgin. “Pickard is a charlatan,” blotter artist, blotter-art collector, and unofficial Family spokesperson Mark McCloud told me. He and many others warned me not to
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received.” Schedule I—drugs that the DEA considers to be the most dangerous and have the least medical value—is something of a tribute to Alexander Shulgin. A former Dow Chemical Company chemist, Shulgin, now in his eighties, is a legend in the psychedelic world, having synthesized MDMA in the fifties after
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Marijuana Laws (NORML) National Survey on Drug Use and Health Nature’s Medicinal Nebraska neurotransmitters Neville, Richard Newcomb, Michael New Yorker New York Times on Alexander Shulgin on codependency movement on heroin trade on Luciano on medical marijuana on Miami cocaine trade on opium on Prohibition on speed Webb and New York
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Alexander Shulgin and Bolivia and CIA and coca eradication efforts of on cocaine on Ecstasy on heroin inception of on marijuana on methylphenidate (Ritalin) Operation Web Tryp
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
by Mike Power · 1 May 2013 · 378pp · 94,468 words
for thought. One individual, allied with technology, would be a central figure in this new race between chemists, users, the culture and the law: American Alexander Shulgin, the world’s most prolific and genius-tinged psychedelic chemist, the godfather of Ecstasy. Notes 1. C. F. Gorman, ‘Excavations at Spirit Cave, North Thailand
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compounds and the career of its owner make it, indisputably, the world’s most storied and influential drug lab. For much of the last century Alexander Shulgin worked in relative obscurity. But in the mid-to-late 1980s, a new drug, MDMA, later known as Ecstasy, started appearing on the streets of
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and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe (Plexus Publishing Ltd, 2010), p. 298 5. Dennis Romero, ‘Sasha Shulgin, Psychedelic Chemist’, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1995 6. Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Transform Press, 1991), p. 860 7. Ibid., p. xvi 8. Ibid., p. xviii 9. www.erowid.org/library/books_online
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attended LSD-assisted creativity sessions in the 1960s at the International Foundation for Advanced Study, a California psychedelic research group founded by a friend of Alexander Shulgin’s, Mylon Stolaroff. The Shulgins wrote the preface to Stolaroff’s book Thanatos to Eros (1994) detailing his experiences with LSD, MDMA, mescaline and a
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who study the effects of poisons and drugs on the human body, met there to discuss research that would help ban many discoveries made by Alexander Shulgin, whose interior expeditions into unknown realms were now considered a danger to society. In 1998, there had been a number of acute poisonings and fatalities
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: the impacts of a new and emerging designer drug craze that some of their members had identified, in which potent new psychedelic chemicals made by Alexander Shulgin were also being sold on the web. Minutes of the meeting note: Dr Les King of the Forensic Science Service outlined the Misuse of Drugs
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that, there’s no reason why not,’ he says. How about a legal heroin analogue? ‘There are dozens.’ Karl has also read the works of Alexander Shulgin, and has conceived of ways to take those now-banned compounds and make them legal. He then reels off an unintelligible string of multisyllabic chemical
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but many of them simply reopened under different names, selling legal compounds. It’s highly likely that the flood of new chemicals will continue unabated. Alexander Shulgin has published a new book, The Shulgin Index, Volume 1: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds. It is the culmination of his life’s work, and
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and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe (Plexus Publishing Ltd, 2010), p. 298 5. Dennis Romero, ‘Sasha Shulgin, Psychedelic Chemist’, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1995 6. Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Transform Press, 1991), p. 860 7. Ibid., p. xvi 8. Ibid., p. xviii 9. www.erowid.org/library/books_online
How to Be Idle
by Tom Hodgkinson · 1 Jan 2004 · 354pp · 93,882 words
real ' , knuckle down, have a career, the exhilaration brought by ecstasy, music and dancing all night was deeply liberating. This is how the radical chemist Alexander Shulgin describes the feeling: I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria. I have never felt so great, or believed this to
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words
displayed the spoils from their globe-trotting exploits with Vice; Morris had cacti he’d been given by the widow of his personal idol, Dr. Alexander Shulgin, the earliest promoter of the drug Ecstasy in the science world. Photographs of psilocybin mushrooms hung on the walls. On the nightstand in Morton’s
Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact
by Steven Kotler · 11 May 2015 · 294pp · 80,084 words
latecomer to the psychedelic tool kit. First discovered by Merck in 1912, MDMA didn’t hit the therapeutic world until the middle 1970s when pharmacologist Alexander Shulgin, then teaching at the University of California, San Francisco, heard from his students that it helped one of them get over a stutter. Shulgin dosed
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino · 5 Aug 2019 · 305pp · 101,743 words
Zeff, the one who named the drug Adam—tried the drug, and a network of practitioners of underground MDMA psychotherapy began to grow. In 1978, Alexander Shulgin and David Nichols published the first human study on ecstasy, noting the substance’s possible therapeutic effects. The attainment of chemical ecstasy—empathogenesis—occurs in
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words
Erotic Intelligence (Esther Perel), The Cosmic Serpent (Jeremy Narby), Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda) Fadiman, James: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story; Tihkal: The Continuation (Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin) Favreau, Jon: The Writer’s Journey (Christopher Vogler and Michele Montez), It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t Here (Charles
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland · 31 May 2021
first-person accounts that manage to convey, as much as the pale medium of words can manage, something of the magic of a psychedelic experience. Alexander Shulgin, a pioneer in the research of synthetic psychoactive drugs, gives this account of his experience on 120 mg of pure MDMA: I felt that I
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies
by Nick Frost · 7 Oct 2015 · 292pp · 97,911 words
Simpsons. George Lucas. Roy Neary. Indiana Jones. The Young Ones. Bill Nighy. Martin Amis. The Smiths. The Bluetones. Shit pubs. Sunny Side Up! Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Alexander Shulgin. Timothy Leary. Milan Kundera. West Ham Utd. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Falafel. McDonalds. Meat Fruit. Good curries. Global knives. Non-stick pans and