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| Title: | US NJ: Drug Doc Helped Cultivate 2C-T-7 |
| Published On: | 2002-02-24 |
| Source: | Trentonian, The (NJ) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-24 19:44:58 |
DRUG DOC HELPED CULTIVATE 2C-T-7
Federal drug agents are beginning to fret about the use of 2C-T-7 by
young people, but they have nobody to blame but themselves if the
drug becomes an epidemic.
After all, from the mid-1960s through 1995, the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency allowed Dr. Alexander Shulgin to experiment widely with
illegal hallucinogens so he could give expert testimony at the trials
of narcotics dealers being prosecuted by the feds.
That all ended when the DEA raided Shulgin's lab in Lafayette,
Calif., and determined that he was the Dr. Timothy Leary of our time
- -- another scientist made space cadet by use of an experimental
hallucinogen.
As a result of the laissez-faire attitude the DEA gave him for over
30 years, Shulgin created over 120 new drugs -- and tested them all
on himself, including one of his favorites, 2C-T-7.
While Shulgin is a self-professed lover of hallucinogenic drugs, he
recently told Rolling Stone that he is saddened by 2C-T-7 becoming a
recreational drug.
"We never thought of this in terms of recreation -- we thought of it
in terms of looking at the spiritual aspects of the psyche," Shulgin
said, expounding the beliefs of 1960s LSD promoter Leary. "The idea
of 2C-T-7 getting on the streets is appalling."
Shulgin is also known in drug circles as the "Stepfather of MDMA,"
otherwise known as Ecstasy.
The drug was invented in 1912, but labored in obscurity until Shulgin
tried it himself and started promoting it for its possible
therapeutic uses.
"I still haven't found anything like it to this day," the
long-haired, bearded hippie doctor told The Los Angeles Times in a
1995 interview.
He is also the author of Pihkal (Phenethylamines I Have Known and
Loved), which is both a diary and drug recipe book.
Along with his wife, Ann, it's said that no humans on Earth have ever
tried more drugs than the Shulgins.
"I consider Shulgin and his wife to be two of the most important
scientists of the 20th century," said the now-deceased psychedelic
guru Leary in The Los Angeles Times article.
Federal drug agents are beginning to fret about the use of 2C-T-7 by
young people, but they have nobody to blame but themselves if the
drug becomes an epidemic.
After all, from the mid-1960s through 1995, the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency allowed Dr. Alexander Shulgin to experiment widely with
illegal hallucinogens so he could give expert testimony at the trials
of narcotics dealers being prosecuted by the feds.
That all ended when the DEA raided Shulgin's lab in Lafayette,
Calif., and determined that he was the Dr. Timothy Leary of our time
- -- another scientist made space cadet by use of an experimental
hallucinogen.
As a result of the laissez-faire attitude the DEA gave him for over
30 years, Shulgin created over 120 new drugs -- and tested them all
on himself, including one of his favorites, 2C-T-7.
While Shulgin is a self-professed lover of hallucinogenic drugs, he
recently told Rolling Stone that he is saddened by 2C-T-7 becoming a
recreational drug.
"We never thought of this in terms of recreation -- we thought of it
in terms of looking at the spiritual aspects of the psyche," Shulgin
said, expounding the beliefs of 1960s LSD promoter Leary. "The idea
of 2C-T-7 getting on the streets is appalling."
Shulgin is also known in drug circles as the "Stepfather of MDMA,"
otherwise known as Ecstasy.
The drug was invented in 1912, but labored in obscurity until Shulgin
tried it himself and started promoting it for its possible
therapeutic uses.
"I still haven't found anything like it to this day," the
long-haired, bearded hippie doctor told The Los Angeles Times in a
1995 interview.
He is also the author of Pihkal (Phenethylamines I Have Known and
Loved), which is both a diary and drug recipe book.
Along with his wife, Ann, it's said that no humans on Earth have ever
tried more drugs than the Shulgins.
"I consider Shulgin and his wife to be two of the most important
scientists of the 20th century," said the now-deceased psychedelic
guru Leary in The Los Angeles Times article.
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