Abby and Robbie dive deeper into the life and work of Sasha and Anne Shulgin and their close yet tumultuous relationship with the DEA, their books PiHKAL / TiHKAL , the raid of his home and the crackdown on “designer drug” internet retailers that were selling pure chemical drugs following the recipies from both of Shulgin's books.

This is Episode 6 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-6 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

Previous:

Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s / 70s

Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA

Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age

Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia

Episode 5: the Acid Drought, Making DMT, A Godfather of Psychedelic Analogs & His Problem Child 2-C-T-7

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Ep 6 : Sasha & Anne Shulgin’s PiHKAL, The Analog Act, Web Tryp & the DEA Psychonaut Crackdown

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I started this page at the request of my friend, composer and author Joanne Forman, who can't afford an internet connection. (Ain't America wunnerful?) She wrote "Pikadon," Lanterns on the River," and "Hiroshima, What's That?."  I don't know who performs the musical pieces but the "Hiroshima" monologgue is spoken by Ruth Fahrbach.

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Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view.

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