Thought that some might be interested in this. Having read both of his books (less the synthesis-laden portions) it should be a very interesting discussion.

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Live audio web chat on Tuesday, February 22 at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST with myself, Dr. Sasha Shulgin, the noted psychedelic chemist and pharmacologist, and his wife Ann Shulgin, the beloved writer and therapist. Dr. Shulgin, a former Dow research chemist, is well known for his creation and discovery of new psychoactive chemicals and for
his promotion in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the use of MDMA in psychotherapy. Sasha and Ann Shulgin together authored and published the books PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and TIHKAL: The Continuation, detailing the synthesis of and their personal experience with hundreds of psychedelics.

The Shulgins will be online to address your questions on a range of topics from the "war on drugs" to the therapeutic use of MDMA. Please email [email protected] before February 22 to submit questions, and don't forget to bookmark the chat address!

When: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
3 PM PST / 6 PM EST
Where: http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/shulginchat

Read on for further information about the Shulgins:

Shulgins 90 x 90 Sasha Shulgin studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. He has authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, been awarded some 20 patents and written four books. Sasha has been studying the chemistry and effects of psychedelics for over 30 years. He was recently featured in the New York Times Magazine, which described him "not as a scientist in the modern sense but as a different type -- what Aldous Huxley, the novelist turned psychedelic philosopher, once described as a 'naturalist of the mind.'"

Ann Shulgin is a therapist who conducted psychedelic therapy before 1985, when MDMA was effectively made illegal when it was
reclassified as a Schedule I drug. Ann is a researcher and spokesperson for the beneficial use of psychedelics, including
MDMA, in a therapeutic setting. The Shulgins travel and speak extensively on the topic of psychedelics.

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interesting.

i will do my best to tune in.

Martin would be interested in this.

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I did a quick search through TA for MAPS and MDMA and didn't find much, so I'm going to assume this has not been posted to this forum.

MAPS = Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

MAPS has embarked on a $5 million, 5-year Clinical Plan to make MDMA into a prescription medicine for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The FDA has apparently approved this research.

BUT what's even MORE interesting to me are their findings that previous reports grossly overestimated MDMA neurotoxicity in human recreational use.

URI's of interest:
http://www.maps.org/mdma/rd011604.html
http://www.maps.org/sys/w3pb.pl?mod...e=review&r_id=1
http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/

ooo will definetely try to tune in for this....

thx for the heads up RJ