Shulgin’s Psychedelic Laboratory Tour

We visited the home chemistry lab where Sasha Shulgin synthesized over 200 novel psychedelics and tested them on himself and his wife Ann over 30 years… and recorded their subjective effects and synthesis notes in their book PIHKAL — an acronym for “Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved.” These include MDMA, 2C-B and STP.

From the forward to PIHKAL: “There has never been a work like it… and we many not soon, if ever, see another of its kind. Some day in the future, when it may again be acceptable to use chemical tools to study the mind, this book will be a treasure-house, a sort of sorcerer’s book of spells, to delight and enchant the psychiatrist of tomorrow.” — Prof. David Nichols

I also took a Short Video.