Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

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Germany: 2C-B is controlled under Anlage I BtMG (Narcotics Act, Schedule I) [30] as of January 31, 1993. [31] It is illegal to manufacture, possess, import, export, buy, sell, procure or dispense it without a license. [32] Noteikumi par Latvijā kontrolējamajām narkotiskajām vielām, psihotropajām vielām un prekursoriem" (in Latvian). VSIA Latvijas Vēstnesis. November 10, 2005 . Retrieved January 1, 2020. Shulgin's life is remarkable, simply because he gets away with so much. Most chemists of international accalim don't typically advocate illegal drugs for example. Every weekend Shulgin and a close group of friends take differing doses of newly-devised psychoactive drugs. It seems Shulgin himself has probably been ingesting psychedelic substances every second day for his entire adult life, perhaps inadvertently proving that responsible drug use is no detriment to scientific genius. B was discovered in 1974 by the American chemist Alexander Shulgin, who was investigating psychedelic phenethylamines derived from mescaline. [2] [3]

After presenting his initial hypothesis, Shulgin soon noticed that, beyond the three components of nutmeg oil we already discussed, a range of similarly structured essential oil components (of various different plants) could potentially be converted to psychoactive amphetamines. This group of eleven amphetamines he referred to as his ‘essential amphetamines’ (i.e. amphetamines derived from essential oils), and each is given its own entry in PIHKAL (listed at the end of this post).

No sentence summarizes this book better than the Mythbusters quote, "Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." Shulgin and his experimental group conducted countless experiments on his creations, all while documenting the dosages, effects, and durations. As anyone who has done psychedelics knows, recounting the experience is at least as hard as remembering dreams. This, alone, makes the data extremely impressive.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that there are no negative health effects attributed to simply trying it by itself at low to moderate doses or using it very sparingly (although nothing can be completely guaranteed). TiHKAL is divided into two parts. The first part, for which all rights are reserved, begins with a fictionalized autobiography and 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, is a detailed synthesis manual for 55 psychedelic compounds (many discovered by Alexander Shulgin himself), including their chemical structures, dosage recommendations, and qualitative comments. 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 phenethylamine are illegal. [ citation needed] This precursor is a variation of the previous precursor, in which the methylenedioxy ring forms between two different neighbouring carbons, and is found in dill oil. Precursor DMMDA-2.

A Chemical Love Story

DISCLAIMER: PW's dosage information is gathered from users and resources for educational purposes only. It is not a recommendation and should be verified with other sources for accuracy. B was first synthesized and tested for psychoactivity in 1974 by the American chemist and psychedelic researcher Alexander Shulgin, who was investigating novel psychedelic compounds based on the chemical structure of mescaline.