For the first time the pseudonymous author of the 1973 clandestine chemistry classic "Psychedelic Chemistry" is interviewed about his motivations for writing the book, his own experience with psych...
2022-08-24 04:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostAn interview ten years in the making, for the first time the true story of Charles Innes is recounted.
Charles Innes blinded himself while under the influence of PCP in 1971, a tragedy ...
2022-08-08 05:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis week the DEA officially withdrew their intention to prohibit five psychedelic tryptamines, this is the inside story of the legal battle behind the success featuring the great lawyers John Hunt...
2022-07-28 22:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIn my second interview with Dr. Manoj Doss we recap a statistical controversy, discuss the five sins of psychedelic science, and what kinds of psychedelic stories deserve publicity.
2022-07-26 22:47:53 +0000 UTC View Post(Contrary to what I said in the intro, there IS a discount code. I don't get a cut, but if you want to get...
2022-07-14 04:26:28 +0000 UTC View PostI answer the first batch of questions here! Topics discussed include salvinorin A kinetics, pineal decalcification, panpsychism, and shared hallucinations.
There were a lot o...
2022-07-12 19:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Uroš Laban talks about receiving his PhD in the lab of Dr. David Nichols, the effect of novel 5-HT1A agonists and Mike Roberts being kicked out of UCLA weeks before receiving his PhD. 2022-07-07 02:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A never before told tale of multi-ton MDA synthesis in the 1980s. Guided by a mysterious Monsanto chemist gone rogue, our interviewee embarked on a quest to synthesize vast quantities of MDA.
<... 2022-06-25 17:58:24 +0000 UTC View PostAl Hubbard is one of the most mysterious and influential figures in psychedelic history, a uranium magnate, CIA-associated psychedelic psychotherapist. For the first time a book has been dedicated ...
2022-06-02 02:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all. I was thinking it would be fun to create a monthly podcast (in addition to the normal interviews) where I answer questions from patrons. If you are a patron with a question, record...
2022-05-17 03:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostDr. David Sulzer is a professor at Columbia University where he studies the pharmacology of amphetamine and dopamine transmission in the brain. He is considered one of the world's leading experts o...
2022-05-12 01:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a conversation with the cannabinoid-specializing medicinal chemist and pharmacologist Dr. Sam Banister of SDB-001 fame, we discuss his career in cannabinoid chemistry and his new venture to...
2022-04-28 07:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I plan to upload this talk to YouTube this month but wanted to give patrons early access to the unedited talk.
Note: At 9:10 I say "nitropropene" but meant to say "nitrobutene"
2022-04-09 21:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostA far-ranging discussion with one of the greatest contributors to the science of psychedelics, this is a good one!
Website for the upcoming Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoacti...
2022-04-01 05:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostSteve-O tells the full story of his PCP use and how he found sobriety
Here is a link to the talk with Leonard Pickard in SF, it's $80, which in my opinion is too much. I will try t...
2022-03-21 07:35:58 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I meet with meme auteur Joelle Bouchard (@namaste.at.home.dad) to discuss the memesphere and the use of memes and social media in the spread of misinformation
In this interview I talk with the Mexican psychiatrist Dr. José-Luis Díaz about his pioneering field work and animal behavioral experiments with Salvia extracts in the 1970s. There is discussion ...
2022-03-01 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow five psychedelics are being prohibited by the DEA, today and tomorrow are the last times to comment on the scheduling action. Please take this time to express your disapproval of the gover...
2022-02-14 00:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I interview the brilliant cognitive neuroscientist and Johns Hopkins memory researcher Dr. Manoj Doss about the influence of drugs on false memory formation and false memories in ge...
2022-02-01 05:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostIn this interview I talk with the great ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin about his relationship with Richard Evans Shultes and Amazonian ethnobotany
2022-01-16 05:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostWebsite: https://pgorman.com/
Trip info and donation: gor...
An interview with GABA titan and gaboxadol inventor Dr. Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen about his discovery of gaboxadol, the toxicity of ibotenic acid, 3-hydroxy-isoxazole chemistry and self-experimentatio...
2021-12-26 02:05:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn this interview I talk about the wide variety of different organisms that produce lysergamides with Dr. Daniel Panaccione, who proposes that many of the natural products we consider botanical in ...
2021-12-21 07:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe greatest living psychedelic chemist Dr. David E. Nichols tells the story of his life in research while synthesizing a novel lysergamide
In this interview I talk with LSU pharmacology professor Dr. Charles Nichols about his father's influence on his scientific carrier and his groundbreaking research on psychedelics and inflammation....
2021-11-15 00:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostA short talk with the great Ann Shulgin about Sasha Shulgin and her friendship with Darrell Lemaire. Two historical questions are described, I would love to know if any listeners have insight into ...
2021-10-30 23:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn this podcast I talk with the legendary Dr. Andrew Weil about Albert Hoffman smoking toad venom, sexual abuse in psychedelic psychotherapy, Charles Manson, and Matcha
If you'd like to...
2021-10-17 00:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostInitially hoping to discuss the mechanics of how a drug is made illegal, I instead have a far-reaching discussion about drug policy with one of the greatest living experts on the subject.
2021-10-01 18:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostPascal Tanguay is a researcher who has lived in Thailand studying kratom for over a decade, our discussion covers the way the Thai media used kratom as a tool to justify increasing budgets for law ...
2021-09-30 04:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostJonathan Ott is a chemist, translator, and one of the greatest psychedelic researchers and historians to have ever lived, I tracked him down and talked to him about bufotenine in a cottage in Engla...
2021-09-02 00:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post