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_Û Bulletin 105 -- WHAT IS STP? Û____
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When: 6/14/92 at 11:58 am
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Left by: castalia (Level 49)
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well, until quite recently I would have been unable to answer
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that question to my satisfaction, but I am now in the fortunate
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position to do so:
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STP, aka DOM, aka 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine
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CHEMICAL CLASS: Phenethylamine (same as MDMA, MDA, 2-CB etc...),
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meaning it is a much closer relative to MDMA (XTC) than LSD-25, a
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common misconception.
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SYNTHESIS: full synthesis instruction and formula available on
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request (I'm not gonna type the whole thing in....)
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DOSAGE: 3-10 mg
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DURATION: 14-20 hrs
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QUALITATIVE COMMENTS:
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- 1 mg: There is almost certainly no effect. Physically there is
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a slight dryness in the mouth, and my eyes are noticeably
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dilated. There is an eerie feeling overall.
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- 2.3 mg: Mood elevation at 2-3 hrs. after that emotional effects
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become more pronounced, enhancement of color also... very little
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perceptual distortion... emotional content and and empathy for
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other closer to mescaline than
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amphetamine... unable to sleep at 10 hrs...
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- 3 mg: ...I found that I was able to separate components of
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complex things.... sharpness of observation is enhanced... a line
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of thought or a bit of personal history ties the thinker to the
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objects that had been thought of... the future is the result of
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your own involvement w/ everything about you.
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- 4 mg: ... there was shuddering, and a tight jaw, and I was not
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particularly motivated to talk... Im feeling a little sick at the
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3-hr point... at the 4th hour it went totally outside me. I saw
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the clouds toward the west. THE CLOUDS!! no visual experience has
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ever been like this. the menaing of color has just changed
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completely.... it is a beautiful experience... of all past joys,
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LSD, mescaline, cannabis, peyote, this ranks number one....
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- 5 mg: there was an intensifaction of light, color and odors. it
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was all very pleasant and beautifuyl, except that I had an
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overwhelimingly negative feeling. .... I alternated about 50-50
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between joy and discomfort. as the evening drew on I became
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withdrawn and pensive. it seemed clear that I had made all the
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wrong decisions - choice of partner, place to live, isolation, no
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meaningul activity..... the experience continued unabated thru
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the night with much
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tension and discomfort. unable to sleep. I hallucinated quite
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freely during the night, but could stop them at will. while I
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never felt threatened, I felt I knew what it was like to look
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across the brink to insanity.
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- 8 mg: the very quiet development picks up speed between the
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first and second hour. there is a rich curly-imaged-eyes-closed
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show that interlocks closely w/ music... there is a continuous
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thirst and little urine. napping seems ok at 16 hrs, but real
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sleep must wait until the 20 hr point.
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- 10 mg: ....it is true that DOM has the glory and the doom
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sealed up in it. all that is needed to unseal it, is to surround
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it with a warm, living human for a few hours. for that human for
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those hours all the dark things are made clear.
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- 12 mg: the first awareness was at 30 min... and the development
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was extremely rapid, something more like LSD. the body tremor
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feels like poisoning, there is no escaping the feeling of being
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debilitated, but there is no nausea. the transition and trauma
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ended near the 2nd hour, the music, eroticism and fantasy was
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exceptional.... there were some residual effects still noted the
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next day...this may be a bit much for me.
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TO BE CONTINUED....
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-Castalia
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_Û Bulletin 106 -- Voyages into inner space Û____
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When: 6/14/92 at 9:19 pm
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Left by: The Zen Goblin (Validated User)
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This is quite interesting Castalia, I've never even heard of STP.
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One question I have is how many times did you try each dosage
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level?
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_Û Bulletin 107 -- WHAT IS STP? PART 2 Û____
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When: 6/15/92 at 10:24 am
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Left by: castalia (Level 49)
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Well, here's the conclusion to the STP info, which should help
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shed some light on the compound's strange history and why it has
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spawned so many strange rumors in terms of its long-term
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duration.
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EXTENSIONS AND COMMENTARY:
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This compound was scattered widely and plentifully in the heyday
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of the
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Haight-Ashbury in S.F. in mid-1967. It was distributed under the
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name STP, which was said to stand for Serenity, Tranquility and
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Peace. It was also
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claimed to represend Super Terrific Psychedelic, or Stop The
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Police. The police called it: Too Stupid to Puke. Acutally, the
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name was taken from the initials of a motor additive completely
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unrelated chemically. Incredibly, and sadly, one of the avowed
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experts in the area of "sensuous drugs", actually stated that
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STP, the motor additive, was really one and the same as STP, the
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highly
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dangerous psychedelic. The motor oil additive, he wrote in a book
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of his, had properties somewhat related to that of LSD, mescaline
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and the amphetamines. How fortunate that the love children of the
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time didnt do much reading, for they might have gotten into yet
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deeper pharmacological trouble with drug raids on the local gas
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stations.
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Two complications became apparent during this first appearnce and
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they led to serious difficulties. ONe, there was no equation made
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between STP and DOM. no one knew what this drug was that had been
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distributed in a cavalier way
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throughout S.F. There could be no educated guess as to the best
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treatment of overdose emergencies. Secondly, the initial tablets
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apparently contained 20 mgs of DOM per tablet, later it was
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dropped to 10 mg. Either of those is now known to be a thoroughly
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whopping dose. The over dose situation was aggravated by the slow
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onset of DOM, since the full impact of the drug is not
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appreaciated until at least 2 hrs have elapsed. But many of the
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recipients of the free handouts of DOM were familiar w/ LSD,
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which can show its onset after 15-20 min, or even sooner w/ large
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doses and there is already a deep and compelling intoxication
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felt at the half-hour point. They, quite reasonbly, expected this
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familiar activity pattern w/ STP and assumed, when there was
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little, if any activity noted at the half-hour point, that the
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potency was less than expected. They took one or even two
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additional doses. Thus, some of the overdose victims of the
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period may well have taken 30 mgs or more of DOM. The slow onset
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of action, coupled with the remarkably long duration, caught many
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innocent users
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unprepared.
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ok, and that's that for STP/DOM. I hope this info will help clear
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up some misconceptions about STP, which abound in plenty. you can
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see from the above account, tho, how STP may have acquired a
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reputation of being a trip that can last days, considering how
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the initial wave of users apparently o.d. by the dozens.
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and as to the question, how often have I tried each of the
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dosages I described in the first post, the answer is: not at all.
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in fact, Ive never even SEEN DOM. the paragraph above, as well as
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the first post are excerpts from:
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PIHKAL (short for: Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved) - A
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Chemical Love Story - by Anne and Alexander Shulgin, which came
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out late last year.
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Alexander Shulgin, as you may know, former chairman of the UC
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Berkeley Dept. of Chemistry is also the father of MDMA (XTC), by
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far the most famous
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Phenethylamine around. He is also 110% committed to psychedelic
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research and its continuation, regardless of govt and laws. Im
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not alone among the
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psychedelic crowd with having a deep respect and admiration for
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the man,
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especially since he is not only a wonderful human being with a
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lot of warmth and a great sense of humnor, but he also KNOWS more
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about this class of drugs (phenethylamines) than anyone else on
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the planet.
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as you can see, from the above excerpts, he still actively
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experiments w/ these compounds. PIHKAL, not only contains the
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above description of DOM (which I abbreviated by about 1/3 in the
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transcription), but for about 250+ ADDITIONAL PHENETHYLAMINES,
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each listed alphabetically, w/ general info, synthesis
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instructions, formula, duration, dosages, effects at different
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dosages and an extended commentary.
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I was familiar with about 10 of the 250 or so compounds listed in
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the book, all of which are psychedelic/psychoactive and most of
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which are as fascinating to read about as DOM.
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after reading the book, a 1000-page volume, I have come to the
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conclusion that it is a research report on the effects of
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designer phenethylamines as initially tested in a group of about
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13 subjects. yes, Shulgin and his wife, Anne, who live near
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Berkeley, seem to have a sort of Secret Society going, where
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these people periodically get together and test a new drug
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designed by Shulgin, following a well-designed procedural
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protocol, that allows them to deal
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extremely well w/ the negative consequences of such pioneering
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experimentation, and enables them to communicate the results of
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their tests to others.
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PIHKAL is the book that resulted from these experimentations. it
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is a de facto research report on the effects of designer drugs on
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human beings - data and information that under less repressive
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conditions would certainly be published in mainstream academic
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journals. Shulgin is a first-rate scientist of the old school
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(meaning he believes in self-experimenatoina and ALWAYS is the
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first one to test any new compound on himself) and the people he
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has selected to be part of his testing group are no flakes.
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If youve ever heard of Gracie & Zarkov, or read any of their
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exploits, I
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strongly suspect that they are part of Shulgin's group. In any
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case, even the knowledge that such a group exists, makes me
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drool. I mean where do I sign up?
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if all this made you interested in the book, I should tell you
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that the drug experimenation reports only take up about half of
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the book. the first part is a semi-ficitonalized autobiography of
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Shulgin and his lifelong involvement w/ psychoactive/psychedelic
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drugs and his continuous quest for further knowledge into how
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these compound interact w/ the human brain and mind.
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_Û Bulletin 108 -- More on PIHKAL Û____
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When: 6/15/92 at 10:39 am
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Left by: castalia (Level 49)
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the Shulgin's are self-publishing PIHKAL, which means you get the
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1000-page volume for $18.95. that's the good news. the bad news
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is, it's not easily available in bookstores. the only place Ive
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even seen it at was the Anarchist Bookstore on the Haight in S.F.
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it might have found its way by now into
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BookSoup or the Bodhi Tree (both in W. Hollywood), but if you
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want to save yourself some trouble of running around looking for
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it or ordering it direct from Tranform Press, you can get it thru
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The Albert Hofmann Foundation book catalog.
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you can order a copy by sending $18.95, plus 8.25% CA tax, plus
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$5 for 1st class shipping/handling or $3 for 4th class to:
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The Albert Hofmann Foundation
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219 S. La Cienega #615
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Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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you can also write to that address for a catalog, or to expedite
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the process, you can leave me an address in email and I can send
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you a catalog. (to ORDER the book, tho, you need to write and
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send a check to the above address).
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and no this is not an ad/plug for the AHF per se (nobody makes a
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lot of money off that book, obviously), it's just that I think
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that that book is
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indispensable to anyone seriously interested in psychedelic
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exploration. it has sort of set a new standard in the field of
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'underground' drug information book, by applying all the
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standards and rules on reporting research data that would be
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applied to an academic journal publication, thus making this book
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one of - if not the most - reliable and informative source on
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psychedelic
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phenethylamines that I am aware of.
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-Castalia
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