RIP Alexander Shulgin, peetvader van de xtc overleden

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Peetvader van de xtc overleden

De Amerikaanse chemicus Alexander Shulgin, ook wel de 'peetvader van xtc', is overleden. Hij is 88 jaar geworden.


Shulgin wordt gezien als degene die de stof MDMA als drug introduceerde en populair maakte. De stof is een belangrijk ingrediënt voor xtc-pillen.
'Sasha' Shulgin ontdekte en creëerde honderden stoffen die een psychedelische werking op mensen hebben. Samen met vrienden begon hij in de jaren 60 met het samenstellen en zelf testen van stoffen. Naderhand werd de werking gedocumenteerd.
Geschat wordt dat de chemicus persoonlijk zo'n 4000 keer een 'trip' had na het consumeren van chemische drugs. Hij overleed aan de gevolgen van leverkanker.
Bron:RTLnieuws.

beetje meer over Shulgin: http://www.vice.com/hamiltons-pharma...nown-and-loved

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Re: RIP Alexander Shulgin, peetvader van de xtc overleden

Nog even een aanvulling over LSD en de uitvinder:
ALBERT HOFFMAN DID NOT INVENT LSD!
Bicycle day is the oldest gag in the book...
An excerpt from our forthcoming paper: Manufacturing the Deadhead – A product of social engineering...
By Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin
"Incredibly, an unpublished paper by English researcher Alan Piper shows that LSD was known about years before Albert Hofmann supposedly “invented” it on 16 November 1938 (Hofmann claims to have not been aware of LSD’s properties until 16 April 1943). Piper has noted that in 1933 Jewish author Leo Perutz wrote the novel Saint Peter’s Snow wherein a new drug made from a fungus from wheat is secretly tested and used in a failed attempt to bring about a return of religious beliefs and return a Roman Emperor to his throne, with a priest who warns that it’s instead the worship of Molech. Rather than a return of Christian belief, the book ends in a communist rebellion. The relationship between psychedelics and communist or socialist political leanings is not uncommon and should be noted. Piper saw the parallelism between Perutz’s psychedelic drug and LSD as a possible coincidence. The authors maintain that in light of the evidence showing that the psychedelic movement was part of a multi-generational plan, Perutz’s book clearly shows an awareness of that agenda. It’s Ironic too that Perutz chooses the name of St Peter’s Snow for the title of the book from the following quote, as it states on page 93 that “in the Alps it was called St Peter’s Snow” and of course the Alps are primarily in Switzerland – where Hoffman supposedly invented the drug:
A few months later I came across the incomparably more important testimony of Dionysus the Areopagite, a fourth-century Christian Neo-Platonist, who states in one of his works that he imposed a two-day fast on the members of his community, who longed for the real presence of God, and he then regaled them with “bread made with holy flour’. […]
I came across an ancient Roman rural priests’ song, a solemn invocation of Marmar or Mavor, who at that time was not yet the bloodthirsty god of war but the peaceful protector of the fields. ‘Let your white frost invade the crop so that they acknowledge thy power,’ it said. Like all priests, Roman rural priests knew the secret of the hallucinogenic drug that produces a state of ecstasy in which people ‘become seeing’ and ‘acknowledge the power of the god’. The white frost was not a kind of wheat, but a wheat disease, a parasite, a fungus that invaded the wheat and fed on its substance.” […]
“There are many kinds of parasitic fungi,” the baron went on, “the ascomycetes, the phycomycetes, and the basidiomycetes. In his Synopsis Fungorum Bargin describes more than a hundred varieties, and nowadays his work is regarded as out-of-date. But among that hundred I had identified the only one that produces ecstatic effects when it is introduced into human food and thus finds its way into the human organism.” […]
There is – or was – a wheat disease that was often described in earlier centuries and was known by a different name wherever it appeared. In Spain it was called Mary Magdalene’s Plait, in Alsace it was known as Poor Soul’s Dew. In Adam of Cremona’s Physician’s Book it was called Misericord Seed, and in the Alps it was called St Peter’s Snow. P. 92 ff.
The book continues later on with the same theme we’re discussing here, where two of the main characters of the plot argue over whether they should test the drug on themselves:
I did not at first realize that she was talking about the baron. “I’ve been quarrelling with him,” she went on. “A very serious quarrel. With whom? The baron, of course, about the hallucinogen. He maintained that we two, he and I, should not take it, but I disagreed. We were the leaders, he said, we must remain clear-headed and dispassionate and be above things, our task was to lead and not be carried away. That’s what the quarrel was about. I said that being above it meant being out of it, and just because he was the leader he must feel and think what the crowd thought and felt.[…]” P. 121"

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/child.htm

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Re: RIP Alexander Shulgin, peetvader van de xtc overleden

Moederkoorn werd mss eerder gebruikt ja, maar Hoffman blijft wel degene die het synthetiseerde(lsd25) tot hoe wij het kennen en gebruiken.

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Re: RIP Alexander Shulgin, peetvader van de xtc overleden

tja, of je nu tript of niet, een einde komt er bij iedereen aan... 88 is wel een mooie leeftijd!

moet ik nog zien te halen