How does one make the transfer from drug use to Advanced Drug User

[titstypedthis]

simply say you are learned in the feild of drugz and post in advanced drug discussion in a condescending tone.

there could be no question of your advanced use of drugz if you can maintain said condemnation of the lower forms of drugz uses or users.

 

[any major dude]

The MAPS Channel on Vimeo is a good resource for videos of presentations on recent research in psychedelics. Also, everytime you view a video, they get a dollar for psychedelic research :D

Pubmed & the PDSP database are good to know how to use.

Aside from that & the books mentioned above, look for a graduate program in pharmacology or neuroscience, or both.

 

[allium]

And no offense, but I hate that nonsense he let his wife add, it is useless and thoroughly boring.......

Sometimes it get boring indeed, but I really enjoyed reading her part of books.

Before that, I had always dreamed of making a drug that was legal and everyone enjoyed. Now that I have skills, knowledge, and desire that dream is now somewhat possible (or could be just a pipe dream).

Hehe, count me in for future testing, please.
Also, mephedrone was discovered on Hive, as far as i remember.
But I hope your drug will be psychedelic.

Also, to the OP, if you don't really love a field you study, then the more knowledge you get the more boring it is.
I mean, almost everything is amazing in the beginning, but once you dig deeper, you see a lot of formulas, digits, more and more complicated theories. And it is entirely possible you'll lost interest, if you don't truly love chemistry, pharmacology or whatever else.
You need stronger motivation than desire to be a drug geek, or thinking that drugs makes you cool.

 

[mgrady3]

If you end up taking some advanced chem/neuro chem courses, or even just reading through the materials on your own time and find your self wondering "why?" in a bit more of a fundamental sense then you could check out some material on quantum physics. It helps fill in the gaps to some extent in chemistry. (I'm a physics grad student, had to give a plug)

I remember being pleasantly delighted when the Pauli Exclusion principle was explained to me from a physics standpoint in one of my quantum classes. Sure I'd seen it / read it/ talked about it in chemistry before but I never really understood why. Some basic physics knowledge will also help in dealing with neurochem (membrane potentials, volage gated ion channels, etc.)

my 2 cents.