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Otherdrugs required "Summer reading"

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

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So you wanna be a true "Otherdrugs" guru, huh? These books will have you WELL on your way! I have decided to list only 5 books, just so to get the ball rolling - the point is for you all to reply with your own "Suggested reading" entries and why you feel they belong here. I would like to put together an "Otherdrugs" book directory of sorts, as there are SO many noteworthy publications out there. Here are my first five:
1. "Pihkal" (Phenethyamines I Have Known and Loved), Dr. Alexander Shulgin and wife.
You wanna know about research chemicals??? Hell, read this and you'll be MAKING them! Well, not really, but there are synths included that in theory could be executed by a trained chemist. Interesting book, as it is half science, half autobiographical fiction. Dr. Shulgin tells a story about a fictional character named "Sasha" who is based himself.
2. "Tihkal" (Tryptamines I have known and Loved), Dr. Alexander Shulgin and wife.
The continuation on from Pihkal but dealing more specifically with the tryptamine based psychadelics.
3. "Ketamine: Dreams and Realities", Dr. Karl Jansen M.D., Ph.D.
This book, dedicated to everything ketamine, is rightfully written by one of the greatest authorities on and champions of the drug itself. If you are serious about your ketamine use, this book should be a compulsatory read.
4. "DMT: The Spirit Molecule", Dr. Rick Strassman, M.D.
This book follows the fantastic research that Dr. Strassman performed in the early 90's with the the "Mother of all psychadelics". His studies were fully FDA approved, which lends heavily to their detail and importance. The book will make you question what the purpose of tripping is, and if it isn't in fact an integral part of the human life cycle (birth experience, death experience) - as DMT is naturally occuring in the body.
5. "Psychadelics Encyclopedia", Peter Stafford.
An excellent reference that has been both expanded and republished a number of times. This book offers detailed descriptions and discussions on virtually every psychadelic drug as well as offering the most thorough history to date of their use.
Notice my five were all on the topic of psychadelics - I know some of you opiod junkies out there actually read
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, so your input (as well as everyone elses) will be appreciated.
Good reading!
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"I dislike the drug you are using, but I would defend with my life your right to use it."
- Paraphrase on Voltaire
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
- Dr. Johnson
"We do not sense imagination enough to sense what we are missing."
-Jean Toomer
 
The Encyclopaedia of Psycho Active Substances - Richard RudGley
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Look, you wanna compare brain pans? I won the Westinghouse prize when I was 12, big deal. Published at 19, so what. I got a double doctorate from M.I.T. at 22, chemistry and geology. I taught at Princeton for two and a half years. Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes, and they let me use explosives, OK?
 
the doors of perception is an interesting book and after you've read it you jump up and say hell i want some mescaline and then you realize that your never gonna get it. but huxley is an excellent writer, brave new world is better and thats sort of about drugs, about a society that approves of their use.
snowblind about coke dealer Zachary Swan is great, not especially technical although there is a good appendix about diff. types of drugs. worth reading for his ingenious schemes and how not to get busted.
 
"ACID DREAMS - The Complete Social History of LSD:The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond" - by Lee & Shlain.
The history of LSD from it's synthesis to the CIA's attempt to brainwash people and use it as mind control to the psychedelic 60's movement, social, musical, and political, till it runs out of energy in the 70's. Interesting book, it's emphasis is on the CIA and the 60's hippies movements.
Other than that - Tihkal & Pihkal. 2 of the best drug books in the world in my opinion and are written for the laymen (outside the synths).
 
Here are some good books about the facts and politics of Prohibition, the Drug War, etc.
They were recommended by 'nessie' in an article he wrote for sfbg.com, the website of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He writes a new column about every two weeks.
Martin A. Lee, the co-author of the previously recommended ACID DREAMS also writes bi-weekly for the guardian, his most recent some general info on drug use among famous creative people in history. He also writes about CIA involvement in the drug trade, Nazi-protection, etc.
list
The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia, by Alfred W. McCoy, ISBN 1-55652-126-x
The Great Heroin Coup, by Henrick Kruger, ISBN 0-89608-031-5
In Banks We Trust, by Penny Lernoux, ISBN 0-385-18329-1
The Crimes of Patriots, by Jonathon Kwitny, ISBN 0-671-66637-1
Out of Control, by Leslie Cockburn, ISBN 0-87113-169-2
Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace, by James Mills, ISBN 0-440-19206-4
Cocaine Politics, by Jonathan Marshall and Peter Dale Scott, ISBN 0-520-21449-8
Drug Wars, by Dan Russell.
(Russells' great site on the War on (Some) Drugs www.drugwar.com)
Unholy Alliance, by David Yallop.
(www.yallop.co.uk)
 
does anyone else think that 'Go Ask Alice' is a well written work of pure fiction? The only reason that I believe this is because Jay's Journal claimed to be 'found' by the same publisher, but I don't buy that satanism/black-magic bullshit.. but I digress
I book I guarantee that most of you ODers would absolutely LOVE:
Intoxication by Ronald K. Siegel, PH.D.
His argument is that the desire to become intoxicated is as natural as the drives of thirst, hunger, and sex. I believe he is also the Dr. whose experiments coined the term 'psychonaut.' This book is full of all sorts of great info... nightmarish Datura trips, Grizzly bears shot with darts dosed with recreational doses of K, PCP-induced mania, Monkies smoking DMT, Elephants eating fermented fruits and going apeshit... this book is awesome...
 
Go ask alice very well could be fiction, and it doesn't really offer many facts about drugs, but I still think it is a really good book and worth reading, hell, it got me into drugs, so you know it must do something right.
 
PIHKAL and TIHKAL can be ordered at any Barnes and Nobles or B. Dalton...they probably don't stock it in their store but can get it for you in seven to ten business days. Make sure to spell the title for them because they wont know what the hell you are talking about otherwise : )
I reccomend A Primer of Drug Action... They go into detail about not just illicit drugs but most drugs and have included a new section on iboga and ayahuasca... they just came out with the newest edition. They take medical terminology and explain it in laymen's terms. Its a very good place to get started if your interested in being able to read more technical works and papers.
Cleansing the Doors of Perception by Huston Smith is a collection of essays and interviews he has held during fifty+ years of drug research and use. Huston Smith is one of the oldest supporters of entheogenic drug use and the book is filled with lots of great stories.
"Tripping" is an anthology of trip reports, some of them poorly written but all of them interesting. It should be on the shelves in the bookstore nearest you.
I have to second Sebastian's_Ghost's reccomendations of DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Don't let Strassman's theorizing turn you off, the experiments he performed are fascinating.
Enjoy
Love,
Pure
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Fuck the PDR, it's nothing but a way for pharmacutical companies to advertise their warez....
Grab "The Pill Book" - it has all the PDR does but also includes info on what the drugs do (in depth) ..
And yes, a book called "Altered States - Americas Obsession With Pills" will be out soon, and will feature TAOS v2.0 (by me as well as some other bluelighters)..
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Elvis once slyly admitted in an interview that he read the PDR a lot. "I once wanted to be a doctor"
Nice one E.
 
Storming Heaven-LSD and the American Dream by J. Stevens, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.The Scientist by John Lily(definite issues that fella) Anything by Hunter S. Thompson and my ten part series the Death of Johnny Kage for all you pro athletes out there in drug-limbo
those are my choices to add to the list of required reading for this summer
besides that get the hell out of your house and do something, memorable this summer life is for the living.
 
For those of you who are interested in psychadelics and the evolution of the human conciousness and other great things like that, I recommend anything by Terrence McKenna. He's an absolutely brilliant man with really cool ideas. Great writer too, so they're quite easy to stay interested in.
Anyways, Food of the Gods is a good one, (is the human brain more evolved than other species perhaps because of our long long history of using hallucinagens?)
Anyhow, Terrence McKenna r0x0rs y0! h3's n3s3ssary 1f y0u r3a11y want t0 b3 l33t.
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