Books Mentioned in This Episode

Pihkal

by Alexander Theodore Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

"And by the way, if you're interested in the story of Alexander Shulgin and the drugs he synthesized, as well as the group he built to take these drugs and try them—who had several members using these drugs in therapy with their patients for a long time, both before and after MDMA became illegal—there's a wonderful book called Pihkal, which stands for P-I-H-K-A-L. Pihkal is the title of the book that Shulgin wrote, which describes his discovery of MDMA; I confess it also describes the synthesis of MDMA, and for that reason, it was a book that for a long time was not available but is now available in audiobook and printed format."