Drug Culture goes Drug Literature v. good drug-related books

[infinity]

i was just talking to sd about an ebay auction i missed (a small german book about MDMA) - apart from the well known tihkal/pihkal, what drug books would you recommend? please also state how hard how much knowledge they require. recent ones are of course preferred, unless they're milestones or otherwise special

some books i'd like to check out:

LSD, my problem child (albert hofmann)
ecstasy reconsidered (nicholas saunders)
the little book of ketamine (kit kelly)
the scientist: a metaphysical autobiography 3rd edt. (john lilly)

if you add a novel or similar, please make this easily visible!

 

[thepodman]

DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Dr. Rick Strassman)

I would also like to know some more good books about psychedelics.

 

[Ampheta-me]

From Chocolate to Morphine - Andrew Weil
The Natural Mind - Andrew Weil

The books are a bit old, but they can help you learn to see drug use for what it is...

 

[Pharcyde]

Pretty much any book by Strike esp. Sources and Total Synth 2. if ya dig on the chemistry

 

[sourlemone]

Aldous Huxley's written some great stuff on his mescaline experiences. names escape me at the moment

 

[ravinpunk]

Aldous Huxley's written some great stuff on his mescaline experiences. names escape me at the moment

The Doors of Perception. Great book.

 

[sourlemone]

that's the one. Heaven and Hell was the follow up, not quite as good but still worth reading.

 

[jaymie]

A Brave New World by A.H. is a great book as well ^^

PiHKAL & TiHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin

Sister of The Extreme by Cynthia and Michael Horowitz history of the relationship between Women and drugs -- very interesting, this one

 

[DB Cooper]

I read The Unauthorized Biography(somethin like that) of Cocaine. It was a sweet book really. It talked about how they used the coca leaves all the way up to crack. Mmmm, peanut butter and crack sandwich.

 

[lysergication]

and about on-line books ?
sure there are some :
http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/LSD/ProbChild/ProbChild.html

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.shtml#index

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml#index

but besides these books or texts, do you knows other interesting online readings ?

edit : i just find this : http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/books_online.shtml

 

[kiwikr720]

Go Ask Alice - anonymous (though it is rumored to be produced by the government as a scare tactic)

Generation Ecstasy - I apologize that I do not know the author
it mainly focuses on the club/electronica scene, but there is a chapter
on ecstasy

There is also a new one I found at the library on Oxycontin and the epidemic stemming from it. I will write down the name of the book and author as soon as I find out.

 

[JuJubes]

From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age: The History of Drugs.

 

[David]

Total Synth II, by Strike. (although I believe it's been banned, as I can't find a copy anywhere.)

Of course PIHKAL, and TIHKAL, by Shulgin.

I forgot to add a disclaimer, I don't advocate doing illegal activities. I do not take part in the synthesis of illegal substances, and neither should you. Knowledge is more important than getting high.

 

[blahblahblah]

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/books/belcont.htm

 

[YEUX]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

im sure most of you have heard of/read this one. a novel based on the adventures of ken kesey and the merry pranksters. GREAT book, very well written.

 

[MattPD]

The Pursuit of Oblivion-A Global History of Narcotics
-Richard Davenport-Hines

Go, buy it, do it now!

They've got it at Amazon.

 

[soundphaRm]

"The Invisible Landscape- Mind, Hallucinogens, & the I Ching" or "Food of the Gods" by Terrence McKenna and Dennis McKenna.

"Ayahuasca Analogues" by Jonathan Ott.

"Plants of the Gods" by Richard Evans Schultes, ethnobotanist extraordinaire (parts by Albert Hoffman).

"Junky" by William S. Burroughs.

...and of course "Fear and Loathing in LasVegas" by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

Just a few of my favs...

 

[funshine]

"chaos and cyberculture" by Dr. Timothy Leary, this is an interesting read, its a few years outdated now, but most of us will remember the times of what leary is talking about, when the internet first started getting popular, drugs, cyberculture, its pretty crazy. And it has interviews with william burroughs and people like that.

"speed/kentucky ham" (non-fiction NOVEL) this is a crazy book wriiten by William Burroughs JR. (the son of the William Burroughs who brought us "Naked Lunch")
this book is excellent, its about Burroughs's addiction to speed which eventually brings him to NYC and then to jail, and then through rehab, i was facinated by it! (although for awhile i was confused thinking it was written by william burroughs senior..the references to when the author's father was transcribing "Naked Lunch" with Kerouac made me double check the cover, thats when i saw the "jr!")

 

[phactor]

Anybody read Confessions of a Dope Dealer by Sheldon Norberg? You should its good.

 

[D'oh]

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter Mcwilliams - http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/toc.htm

Not specifically drug related, but a good overview of why victimless crime laws are a bad thing. Good info in there.