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Niche publisher: Preserving Alexander Shulgin’s legacy of psychopharmacology, psychedelic drug research, psychoactive compounds, & states of consciousness.
01/10/2025
The Nature of Druvs, Volume 1, transcribed from Sasha Shulgin's lecture series given at San Fransisco State University in 1987, contains a short reflection by Leonard Pickard, fellow chemist and researcher, who was Sasha's student at the time.
He writes, "The privilege of being taught by Sasha was, from the moment we met,the transformative event in my then limited life. I had failed to solve a problem in advanced chemistry. Only one man was capable of the insight, and was of like mind in advancing the procedure: Sasha. It was 1983 when I ventured to write him of my long admiration. of reading his many papers, and of the difficulty in an esoteric realm of synthesis. Sasha replied with an invitation to join his lectures in drug studies at San Francisco State University. I hastened to attend: honored, timid, excited."
Learn more about the book: https://transformpress.com/the-nature-of-drugs-volume-one/
We love this clip of Sasha Shulgin being interviewed by the late Dutch journalist, Luc Sala, at the Entheobotany Conference in Palenque, Mexico, in 1996, of which Terence McKenna was one of the founders. 🌴
In this snippet, Sasha emphasizes the importance of focusing on how we use substances rather than the substances themselves, highlighting that even valued concepts like education can be either weaponized or used constructively, depending on their application.
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