Media The Nature of Drugs

  The Nature of Drugs by Alexander Shulgin.

Erscheinungsdatum voraussichtlich 5. Mai 2021 im Synergeticpress Verlag.

Description:

The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology and Social Impact, Volume I, was transcribed from the original lecture tapes recorded at SFSU in 1987. Ostensibly taught as an introductory course on drugs and biochemistry, this transcription is a unique document being both a historical record of Sashas teaching style and the culmination in many ways of his philosophy on drugs, psychopharmacology, states of consciousness, and societal and individual freedoms pertaining to their use, both medicinal and exploratory. The Nature of Drugs is the story of humanity´s relationship with psychoactive substances form the perspective of a master psychopharmacologist and will enthrall anyone intrigued by this subject.

The Author:

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin was undoubtedly one of the most pioneering chemists of this century. Completing his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955, Shulgin went on to get a job at the Dow Chemical Company, where he invented a highly lucrative, biodegradable pesticide by the name of Zectran. Shulgin ultimately pursued his own research program, synthesizing psychoactive substances after an experience with mescaline. He subsequently left Dow in 1966, setting up a home-base laboratory on his ranch in Lafayette, California, where he synthesized more than two hundred novel psychoactive compounds. A bold explorer of the frontiers of neurochemistry, Shulgin tested the majority of the substances he synthesized on himself, his wife and co-researcher Ann, and a small circle of trusted friends. He and his friends kept diligent notes on the experiential research forays. He and his wife Ann co-authored the psychonautic tome, PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story in 1991. In 1996, the Shulgins published a sequel, TiHKAL: The Continuation, standing for "tryptamines I have known and loved".

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