The Move: I Can Hear the Grass Grow. ibid.
The concept album became de rigueur. ibid.
‘Our aim is to transform American society. In the next five or ten years we expect between twenty and thirty million Americans will be using LSD regularly in their spiritual development and psychological growth. Reputations s8e7: Timothy Leary: The Man Who Turned America On, BBC 2001
In the 1960s Timothy Leary brought psychedelic drugs out of the laboratories and on to the campuses of America. ibid.
Leary’s affairs and Marianne’s suicide were two more sorry episodes in the Leary family history. ibid.
Leary won [Harvard] approval for a research project exploring the potential benefits of the active ingredients in magic mushrooms … popular with undergraduate students. ibid.
Leary revelled in his role as psychedelic spokesman. ibid.
Efavirenz: The only way to crack that kind of a mystery is to take the drug. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: Getting High on HIV Medication
South Africa has one of the planet’s most unique drug cultures. It is a realm where the Quaalude still abounds, and heroin has emerged only recently, not in its familiar guise as an intraveneously administered powder but as a component in a mysterious smoking mixture called Nyaope. ibid.
The first I’d heard of an anti-retro-viral drug being used recreationally. ibid.
Psychedelic in a certain way … It’s not pleasant at all. ibid.
A ray of compounds that alter consciousness … This is the story of the dream fish. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: Fish n Trips
I’m off the coast of Miami, Florida … the sponge … host to a fascinating compound … the only known psychedelic to have been isolated from the ocean and only the ocean. ibid.
Reported cases around the world of fish causing vivid hallucinations. ibid.
This is the story of … Bufo Alvarius, the psychedelic toad … 5 MeO-DMT. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: Bufo the Psychedelic Toad
This is the story of Lophophora Williamsii … 50 Alkaloids: the most abundant of which, Mescalin, became the first psychedelic to undergo scientific study … Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia s2e2: Peyote the Divine Messenger
One of the most provocative psychedelics known to science … a substance found throughout nature in plants and animals whose purpose remains unknown … This is the story of DMT. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia s2e4: Wizards of DMT
DMT is a drug ill-suited to underground manufacture due to the high dose required and relatively complex synthesis. ibid.
Hidden in the woods lies a dismantled lab. The glassware and chemicals that survive are used only to illuminate memories of a career tragically cut short … This is the story of clandestine MDMA chemistry. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia s2e6: The Clandestine Chemist’s Tale
The manufacture of psychedelics moved to China where controlled substances are replaced by uncontrolled derivatives that are sold without restriction to consumers in the United States. ibid.
It’s said to be the oldest intoxicant yet there are few that care to indulge. Its beauty is stark, covered in spots, and its colour is crimson and bold. In the Carpathian forests I venture where hermits forage and dwell. Its a mushroom that carries great gifts for science along with a magical spell … This is the story of Amanita Muscaria. Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: A Fungal Fairy Tale
Amanita Muscaria is found on every continent except Antarctica. ibid.
At least two receptors in the brain. ibid.
In 1966 [Alexander] Shulgin quit his job as a chemist for Dow Chemical to devote himself entirely to the study of psychoactive drugs … The Godfather of Ecstasy. Dirty Pictures, 2010
‘Sulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs.’ ibid. news
‘Beyond the therapist’s office it becomes wildly popular.’ ibid. documentary
‘I see psychedelics as spiritual tools.’ ibid. Ann Shulgin
‘Could one stay in a state of bliss for the rest of his life?’ ibid. Alexander
In 2019 a pioneering drugs trial began. A radical new treatment for depression. A significant number of sufferers report no benefit from anti-depressants. Now a team of British researchers are convinced psychedelics could be the answer. The Psychedelic Drug Trial, BBC 2021
The UK is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance. Young people in England and Wales are taking three times more LSD than they did five years ago. High Society: The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics, Youtube 20.16, Vice TV 2020
The use of magic mushrooms has been increasing around 40% year on year. ibid.
A growing number of people are taking them far more seriously as a growing form of therapy. ibid.