What about a picture of Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, PH.D. The "Godfather of MDMA" who, as a foresic chemist employed by the DEA used his schedule I liscensce to synthesize substituted phenyethelamine and indolamines in his backyard lab in Lafayette, CA were he had carte blanche to conduct his research. He tested new compounds on himself and then group of close friends and fellow psychonauts. He published his results in the influencial book PIKHAL. This provoked the ire of the DEA, who with the help of other allied law enforcement agencies from CA and the county of Alameda, shut down his lab, trampled all over his pet peyote button which he and his wife had been nurturing for 10 years, and pulled his liscense.
This episode is well documented in his follow up book TIKHAL. Before the DEA gig, he worked for Dow chemicals and managed to secure a lucrative patent- which gave him a lab to play in- for a while- until some of his expirements with psychedelics embarraced the company. A gig at the edgewood arsenal and a faculty position at Cal Berkley is also on his CV. Besides rediscovering MDMA, his accolades include bringing the world other classics such as 2-CB, 2-CE, 2-CD, 2-CT-X and a bunch of other phenylethelamine and indolamines. There is a cool old pix of him in his lab somewhere on the web.
Regarding Strike- haven't seen his influencial text total synthesis II or whatever its called at the local headshop book section. Wonder if this was part of his terms for parole. His website , the Hive, is long gone, but much of it is preserved on Rh--dium.com.
This episode is well documented in his follow up book TIKHAL. Before the DEA gig, he worked for Dow chemicals and managed to secure a lucrative patent- which gave him a lab to play in- for a while- until some of his expirements with psychedelics embarraced the company. A gig at the edgewood arsenal and a faculty position at Cal Berkley is also on his CV. Besides rediscovering MDMA, his accolades include bringing the world other classics such as 2-CB, 2-CE, 2-CD, 2-CT-X and a bunch of other phenylethelamine and indolamines. There is a cool old pix of him in his lab somewhere on the web.Regarding Strike- haven't seen his influencial text total synthesis II or whatever its called at the local headshop book section. Wonder if this was part of his terms for parole. His website , the Hive, is long gone, but much of it is preserved on Rh--dium.com.
