This podcast is the first of what I hope to be a series of "journal club" discussions with scientists about an important scientific paper. In this episode Jason Wallach and I discuss the strange origin of the head twitch response and how it became the most important behavioral correlate for 5HT2A agonism in non-human animals.
2020-06-27 07:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this almost three hour conversation with senior forensic DEA chemist Terry Dal Cason we discuss MDMA chemistry, fentanyl, police brutality, and the ethics of prohibition. Terry Dal Cason is a complicated figure who the clandestine MDMA chemist Strike called, "The godfather of all clandestine ecstasy chemistry."
2020-05-31 21:44:10 +0000 UTC View PostA most superlative discussion of NMDA antagonists! MK-801 is the strongest dissociative that has been used by humans, it is also one of the most mysterious and (arguably) one of the most dangerous. Episode three of my podcast features an interview with a teenager who ordered MK-801 and tested it on himself and his friends.
Further reading: https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?S1=330<...
2020-05-29 03:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all. When I started this account I saw it primarily as a way to raise money for chemistry experiments I was doing with Jason Wallach. I was not seriously interested in starting a podcast as I've always been focused on the documentary series and various writing projects, but I've been encouraged by the influx of new subscribers and support for the last two episodes and I've now started scheduling and recoding many more, with an initial goal of a minimum of two new podcasts exclusively on P...
2020-05-23 01:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Please enjoy the second installment of my "podcast"
2020-05-12 01:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Zectran (mexacarbate) is an insecticide invented by Alexander Shulgin, it was the success of zectran that later afforded Shulgin the freedom to research psychedelics. I'm always in the market for old bottles of zectran or old zectran advertisements from agricultural magazines. Let me know if you find anything.
2020-05-07 07:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, all. Tonight I'll be having a brief livestream talk about Datura with the anthropologist David Shorter. I plan to review the different tropane alkaloids found in Datura and talk a little bit about their medicinal use, history, and pharmacology. The talk is free and can be watched tonight at 5:30PST or 8:30EST via the attached link. Although it's not a Q&A, if any of you have burning questions about Datura post them here and I'll try to address them.
Also, many thanks to al...
2020-05-01 21:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostI don't usually interview people involved with the distribution side of psychedelics, but this conversation touches on so many fascinating topics in the history of LSD that I thought other people might find it interesting. The conversation covers Steve Jobs, Kary Mullis, ergotamine tartrate, LSD distribution, and SARS-CoV-2.
2020-04-30 21:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all. Today is bicycle day, the day that Albert Hofmann first tried LSD in 1943. For this occasion I will be livestreaming a short discussion about LSD that is free for all Patreons. The discussion begins at 6:00PM EST (i.e., in 30 minutes). Although it's not a Q&A, if you have any pressing questions you can post them here and I'll try to address them.
Here's the link: 2020-04-19 21:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgUYGx5DYWo&t=3310s
2020-04-08 16:13:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, all. I'm not sure whether to call this a YouTube livestream or a podcast, but on Friday or Saturday night I plan to record a two hour conversation with two other members of my crew, Mimi Packer and Justin Clark. Both of them have worked on Pharmacopeia since season one and we will be talking specifically about what it's like making the series from a production standpoint. During each season the show is made by more than a dozen people working full time for close to a year, it costs a lot ...
2020-04-01 20:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, I'm going live for a quarantine discussion on Skype at 8:00. If you have any questions send them to me here and I'll try to answer them:
EDIT: I hope I didn't come across as being unkind to the chemistry PhD student. My point was simply that the research doesn't need to be framed as being specifically or exclusively about "psychedelics" to make important...
2020-03-27 23:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is more, tomorrow I hope to post the precipitation and filtration of voacangine freebase.
2020-03-26 05:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, production for the third season of my show has dramatically slowed due to COVID-19 and I'm editing in isolation. Although none of this footage is even close to being finished, I thought I'd post a few videos of what I've been working on. It's missing voice over, color correction, sound mixing, and it's a very rough edit, but you may still find it interesting.
2020-03-26 05:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello anyone that is supporting my Patreon! I'm working on some interesting/exclusive material to share here, in the meantime I've attached a nice reel of chemistry from the past two seasons of my show. Enjoy.
2019-09-05 00:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post