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Alexander Shulgin Book Collection
The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds None of the anecdotal accounts that you find in TiHKAL and PiHKAL will be found in this volume. This is pure information about the pharmacology of the compounds, their legal status, their CAS numbers and their synthesis. This is hard core chemist/biochemist materials, and it's nice to see Shulgin return to his ro...
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The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds
None of the anecdotal accounts that you find in TiHKAL and PiHKAL will be found in this volume. This is pure information about the pharmacology of the compounds, their legal status, their CAS numbers and their synthesis. This is hard core chemist/biochemist materials, and it's nice to see Shulgin return to his roots as a scientist. Additionally included in the book is reference spectra for almost every compound found in PiHKAL. The book is extraordinarily well referenced and contains 2000+ references. Over 1300 compounds are covered, with about 130 of the most active and studied compounds from PiHKAL investigated in depth. Highly recommended for any researcher or fan of my idol Sasha Shulgin's work.
TiHKAL: The Continuation
TiHKAL, much like its predecessor PiHKAL, is divided into two parts. The first part, for which all rights are reserved, begins with a fictionalized autobiography, continuing where the similar section of PiHKAL left off; it then continues with a collection of essays on topics ranging from psychotherapy and the Jungian mind to the prevalence of DMT in nature, ayahuasca and the War on Drugs. The second part of TiHKAL, which may be conditionally distributed for non-commercial reproduction (see external links below), is a detailed synthesis manual for 55 psychedelic compounds (many discovered by Alexander Shulgin himself), including their chemical structures, dosage recommendations, and qualitative comments. Shulgin makes the second part freely available on Erowid.org while the first part is available only in the printed text.
Like PiHKAL, the Shulgins were motivated to release the synthesis information as a way to protect the public's access to information about psychedelic compounds, a goal Alexander Shulgin has noted many times.[1] Following a raid of his laboratory in 1994 by the United States DEA,[2] Richard Meyer, spokesman for DEA's San Francisco Field Division, stated that "It is our opinion that those books [referring to the previous work, PiHKAL] are pretty much cookbooks on how to make illegal drugs. Agents tell me that in clandestine labs that they have raided, they have found copies of those books."
PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
Through PiHKAL (and later TiHKAL), Shulgin sought to ensure that his discoveries would escape the limits of professional research labs and find their way to the public; a goal consistent with his stated beliefs that psychedelic drugs can be valuable tools for self-exploration. The MDMA ("ecstasy") synthesis published in PiHKAL remains one of the most common clandestine methods of its manufacture to this day. Many countries have banned the major substances for which this book gives directions for synthesis, such as 2C-B, 2C-T-2, and 2C-T-7. In the United Kingdom, all but MDOH and phenethylamine are illegal.[citation needed]
In 1994, two years after PiHKAL was published, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided Shulgin's lab and requested that he turn over his DEA license. Richard Meyer, spokesman for DEA's San Francisco Field Division, has stated in reference to PiHKAL "It is our opinion that those books are pretty much cookbooks on how to make illegal drugs. Agents tell me that in clandestine labs that they have raided, they have found copies of those books," suggesting that the publication of PiHKAL and the termination of Shulgin's license may have been related.