In one of the strangest episodes to date, Dr. D.C.A. Hillman explains the ancient ingredients in the Theriac and the practice of using children as drugs.
D. C. A. Hillman earned his Ph.D./M.A. in Classics and M.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin
https://www.vice.com/en/article/avndvp/tinkle-tweaking-v18n6
Hello all! The schedule has been a damn mess this month, I hope your lives are more organized and that you are happy and well. I will have the February Q&A tonight (Wed) some of your questions were doozies that sent me into long monologues, it's been taking longer than expected.
Also tomorrow I am interviewing Dr. D.C.A. Hillman, author of The Chemical Muse, about his new research on ancient Greek drug use. I will also try to upload a recording of me teaching Carl Hart's class...
2024-02-28 08:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn this conversation with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris we discuss the default mode network, psychedelics as treatments for addiction, the influence of Michael Pollan's book and more!
If people want I can upload an audio only version.
Enjoy!
2024-02-27 07:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode I talk with the esteemed ketamine and MDMA psychiatrist Dr. Phil Wolfson about conducting MDMA psychotherapy before it was prohibited, the structure activity relationship of arylcyclohexylamines, testicular pressure algometry, kotch, and more!
https://philwolfsonmd.com/about-me.html
2024-02-14 03:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. I am recording another Patreon subscriber Q&A for next month. If you are a patron with a question, record audio of yourself asking it (the question recording can be no more than 30 seconds) and email it to the podcast at hamiltonsresearch@gmail.com with the subject "February 2024 Q&A" followed by your Patreon username (or email address associated with the account) and your Patreon subsc...
2024-01-26 20:09:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn this interview I talk with science librarian and archivist Jason Harvey about his research on the strange life and tragic death of Barry Kidston. Our discussion is interspersed with archival interviews Jason Harvey conducted with Kidston's friends and family.
In this Q&A I discuss the recent Panara lemonade deaths, a newly available DXM freebase tablet, alpha-GPC, amphetamine-bupropion interactions, and coal tar. Enjoy!
2024-01-17 07:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I speak with convicted murderer and former Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil about his time recording music with Charles Manson and how a peyote deal gone wrong set in motion a series of crimes that forever changed the counterculture and public perception of psychedelic drugs.
https://www.bobbybeausoleil.com/
2024-01-09 08:01:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. I am recording another Patreon subscriber Q&A for this month. If you are a patron with a question, record audio of yourself asking it (the question recording can be no more than 30 seconds) and email it to the podcast at hamiltonsresearch@gmail.com with the subject "January 2024 Q&A" followed by your Patreon username (or email address associated with the account) and your Patreon subscr...
2024-01-02 02:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe full interview will be released tomorrow afternoon, but I wanted to release this brief teaser for subscribers. It's an interview with a chemist named Jason Harvey who spent years working on an unpublished biography of Barry Kidston and uncovered enormous amounts of unknown information about Kidston's life story.
2023-12-31 23:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostIn this Q&A I discuss the DEA's new plans to prohibit DOI and DOC, Ritalin tablet prestidigitation, clandestine plant breeding and X-ray crystallography. A link to the Federal Register can be found below, enjoy!
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/13/2023-27289/schedules-of-controlled-...
2023-12-29 07:36:07 +0000 UTC View PostPlease enjoy an hour long talk where I discuss different fungal natural products. Note: during the Q&A I estimate the global consumption of GMP psilocybin to be a couple of grams, that's almost certainly too conservative, but I would imagine it's less than fifty grams. Q&A and much more coming out this week!
Love,
Hamilton
2023-12-18 03:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor years I've wanted to interview Dr. Matthew Baggott, one of the word's leading experts on the human psychopharmacology and molecular neuropharmacology of MDMA and related entactogens. In this conversation we discuss his research career and his new efforts to design improved version of MDMA.
George Ricaurte Controversy - https://maps.org/research-archive/mdma/studyre...
In this episode I talk with novelist, historian, and drug researcher Norman Ohler about his past research on Nazi use of methamphetamine and his new book "LSD for Mom" about his mother's use of LSD to help alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
2023-11-17 07:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostBefore formally recording an interview with Norman Ohler we gave short talk at a film screening in Prague, consider this a teaser of sorts.
2023-11-01 16:53:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr. Jason Slot (interviewed in podcast 84) was kind enough to share this link to a recent lecture by J. Andrew Jones on the bioengineering of organisms to produce psychedelic molecules. I imagine this will be of interest. Enjoy!
2023-10-25 04:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. I am recording another Patreon subscriber Q&A for this month. If you are a patron with a question, record audio of yourself asking it (the question recording can be no more than 30 seconds) and email it to the podcast at hamiltonsresearch@gmail.com with the subject "October-November 2023 Q&A" followed by your Patreon username (or email address associated with the account) and your Patre...
2023-10-24 02:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I interview the master of salvinorin A chemistry Dr. Thomas Munro about his work with salvinorin A lollipops, salvinorin A chemistry and pharmacology, self-experimentation, and the supremely potent salvinorin B ethoxymethyl ether.
2023-10-24 02:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn this Q&A we discuss methoxetamine prohibition, agomelatine, The Temple of the True Inner Light, and microbial phenethylamine production. Enjoy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilia%E2%80%93myalgia_syndrome
https://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicis...
2023-10-13 06:20:15 +0000 UTC View PostI sit down with Mycofest and Mycosymbiotics founder William Padilla Brown to discuss his work on the cultivation of Cordyceps militaris as well as the anandamide content (and potential psychoactiviy of) the black truffle Tuber melanosporum
SHOWNOTES:
- William
In this podcast I interview a man who ingested what is likely the highest dose of ibogaine ever consumed: 10 grams of iboga total aklaoid extract combined with 6 grams of ibogaine HCl. This could hypothetically represent an ibogaine dose as high as 14.8 grams. We discuss his hospitalization, what drove him to consume this massive overdose, and a previous medical case report describing a 5.6g ibogaine overdose
2023-09-23 02:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostIn this second interview with Amanda Feilding we discuss the board game go as a tool for psychopharmacological research, her plot to find her lost pigeon by claiming he was the star of an upcoming Antonioni film, and the default mode network as a metaphor for prohibitionist government.
2023-09-18 05:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. I am recording another Patreon subscriber Q&A for this month. If you are a patron with a question, record audio of yourself asking it (the question recording can be no more than 30 seconds) and email it to the podcast at hamiltonsresearch@gmail.com with the subject "August-September 2023 Q&A" followed by your Patreon username (or email address associated with the account) and your Patre...
2023-08-31 01:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I talk with Reggie Harris and Ian Bollinger, founders of Hyphae Labs and The Psilocybin Cup, about how they started a psychedelic testing business, legal restrictions in the field, Jamaican mushroom retreats, the Enigma strain, and more!
Reggie Harris: https://www.oaklandhyphae510.com/about
Ian Bollinger: 2023-08-26 06:17:03 +0000 UTC
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In this interview I talk with fungal evolutionary geneticist Dr. Jason Slot about the genetic history of psilocybin-containing fungi, how genes for psilocybin biosynthesis were transferred between species, and the genome of the Penis Envy cubensis.
https://plantpath.osu.edu/our-people/jason-c-slot
2023-08-22 00:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostRecorded after a mushroom foray at this year's Mycofest, I sit down with Alan Rockefeller to discuss Psilocybe taxonomy, wood lover's paralysis, the enigma strain, and fungal accumulation of heavy metals.
Alan's website: https://www.mycena.llc/
Jason Slot - https://plantpath.osu.edu/our-people/jason-c-slot
DNA sequencin...
In this Q&A I discuss lemon tekking, 4-AcO-MET hydrolysis, DNA intercalation by harmine and more!
EDIT: New question added!
science.org/content/blog-post/myth-ethidium-bromide
2023-07-29 23:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I feature two short interviews with Dr. Carl Hart and Dr. Nick Cozzi that were recorded at the recent MAPS conference. Subjects discussed include xylazine, Bill Maher being a "bitch-ass motherfucker", the kinetic isotope effect, and conformationally restricted tetrahydro-1-benzoxepin analogues of hallucinogenic phenethylamines.
2023-07-25 07:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. I am recording another Patreon subscriber Q&A for this month. If you are a patron with a question, record audio of yourself asking it (the question recording can be no more than 30 seconds) and email it to the podcast at hamiltonsresearch@gmail.com with the subject "July 2023 Q&A" followed by your Patreon username (or email address associated with the account) and your Patreon tier. App...
2023-07-22 20:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostRecorded at the recent MAPS conference, this is a conversation with two chemists from Psilera Dr. Jackie von Salm and Jeanine Yacoub, M.S. We discuss tricyclic tryptamines found in nature, sponge natural products, and the future of psychedelic medicinal chemistry.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00716
2023-07-13 03:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post