PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved) is a unique book written by renowned psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin. This book gives details of their research and investigations into the use of psychedelic drugs for the study of the human mind, and is also a love story. The second half of the book describes in detail a wealth of phenethlyamines, their physical properties, dosages used, duration of effects observed, and commentary on effects.

PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Shulgin, Alexander

Shulgin, Ann

Professionals & Academics

Transform Press

This Commemorative edition of PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and TiHKAL: The Continuation features the original texts but with complete errata, new essays, anecdotes &amp; reminiscences by numerous colleagues, over 200 photographs, and original art. 
 PiHKAL is the fictionalized autobiographical account of Sasha and Ann Shulgin's research and romance, exploring altered state experiences in the context of intimacy. It describes a wide variety of phenethylamines, their dosage, and their effects. The second volume, TiHKAL, uses the same format as Pihkal to describe the effects of a range of tryptamines, and continues the Shulgin's chemical love story. It also includes appendices that relate to cactus alkaloids, natural beta-carbolines, and drug law. 
 In this edition, each book has been split into two to make a collection of four books. The set, housed in a beautiful slipcase, includes:
 PiHKAL: The Love Story
 PiHKAL: The Chemical Story
 TiHKAL: The Story Continues
 TiHKAL: The Chemistry Continues

The Commemorative Edition of Pihkal and Tihkal

Religion & Spirituality

The Nature of Drugs presents Sasha Shulgin's popular San Francisco State University course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. The course also delves into social issues and reactions involving drugs, and discussions of governmental attempts at controlling them and features Sasha's engaging lecture style peppered with illuminating anecdotes and amusing asides.

The Nature of Drugs Vol. 1: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact

Transform Press (June 8, 2021)

The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact, Volume 2, presents lectures from Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin’s popular course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. 
Transcribed from the original lectures recorded at San Francisco State University in 1987, The Nature of Drugs series highlight Shulgins’s engaging lecture style peppered with illuminating anecdotes and amusing asides. Ostensibly taught as an introductory course on drugs and biochemistry, these books serve as both a historical record of Shulgin’s teaching style and the culmination of his philosophy on drugs, psychopharmacology, states of consciousness, and societal and individual freedoms pertaining to their use, both medicinal and exploratory. 
Building on the introductory lectures in The Nature of Drugs, Volume 1, this second volume contains extensive examinations of dozens of compounds, featuring lectures 9 through 23 of the course. The Nature of Drugs series presents the story of humanity’s relationship with psychoactive substances from the perspective of a master psychopharmacologist and beloved luminary in the study of chemistry, pharmacology and consciousness.

The Nature of Drugs Vol. 2: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact

PiHKAL: Eine molekulare Liebesgeschichte (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Twentysix

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