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	The Shulgins - Ann & Sasha
		As a result of his creation of a series of successful (and profitable) patents for Dow Chemical, Shulgin was handed a DEA license and a good deal of career autonomy.
		Shulgin used this freedom to synthesize and test the effects of psychoactive drugs.
		They had a systematic way of ranking the effects of the various drugs, known as the Shulgin Rating Scale, with a vocabulary to describe the visual, auditory and physical sensations.
	www.matrixmasters.com /pn/speakers/Shulgins-bio.html (395 words)

	MAPS - Listening for the Logos - a study of reports of audible voices at high doses of psilocybin
		A common denominator in the biochemical research with psychedelics in general, and with tryptamines in particular (psilocybin/psilocin), is that, somehow, the neurotransmitter serotonin is specially involved in the psychedelic experience.
		As already stated, serotonergic neurotransmitters and receptors are strongly involved in the psychoactive effects of many of the psychedelics, including, for example, the phenethylamines; yet reports of voices are absent in one major work on phenethylamine compounds (Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin, 1992).
		It is also not enough to say that the auditory effects of tryptamines are the result of their having a unique structure in comparison with other psychedelics: for example, it can be pointed out that LSD and other of the ergolines "can [also] be viewed as rigid tetracyclic tryptamines" (Nichols, 1986, p.
	www.maps.org /news-letters/v07n1/07112bea.html (4133 words)

	Notes From a Psychedelic Revival Meeting (Richard Gehr) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If the psychedelic revival's figureheads can be categorized loosely as either shamanist scholars (Ott, DeKorne), hard scientists (Dennis McKenna, Alexander Shulgin), or hedonists (Leary, Stafford), Terence McKenna is the most seductively articulate of the former.
		While an excellent case could be made for the theory that without psychedelics the environmental movement as we know it today would be nonexistent (remember your first trip and how it made you feel about nature), there is another way to make sense out of drugs: as pure chemical-materialist magic.
		Representing an earlier generation of psychonauts, Alexander ("Sasha") Shulgin, 69, and his wife Ann, 62, came out of the psychedelic closet in their self-published, 900-page book PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story.
	www.levity.com /rubric/psych.html (3078 words)

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