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- Here's a short list to get you started:
-
- "Anderson, Edward F.","PEYOTE: The Divine Cactus","1980"
- "Artaud, Antonin","The Peyote Dance","1971"
- "Bowles, Paul","A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard","1962"
- "Burroughs, William S.","The Yage Letters","1963"
- "De Monfreid, Henry","HASHISH: The Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler in the 20's
- "Furst, Peter T. ed.","Flesh of the Gods","1972"
- "Julien, Robert","Drugs and the Body",""
- "Kluver, Heinrich","Mescal and the Mechanisms of Hallucinations","1966"
- "McKenna, Terrence","Food of the Gods","1992"
- "McKenna, Terrence","The Archaic Revival","1991"
- "Ott, Jonathan","Hallucinogenic Plants of North America","10/1/79"
- "Schultes, Richard Evans and Hoffmann, Albert","PLANTS OF THE GODS: Origins
- of Hallucinogenic Use",""
- "Shulgin, Dr. Alexander","PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story",""
- "Snyder, Solomon H.","Drugs and the Brain",""
- "Stevens, Jay","STORMING HEAVEN: LSD and the American Dream","1/1/87"
- "Wasson, R. Gordon","SOMA: The Divine Mushroom of Immortality",""
- "Wasson, R. Gordon","The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica",""
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- From: tkohlenb@reed.edu (Yahweh)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.psychoactives
- Subject: Re: Must-Own Books for Drug Users
- Date: 5 Sep 1994 08:20:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <34ekcg$7pb@scratchy.reed.edu>
-
- In article <34e59m$31i@explorer.clark.net>, Murple <murple@clark.net> wrote:
- >
- >I was just thinking, we should all list some "Must Have" books for drug
- >users. A responsible drug user is an educated drug user, and these are
- >books that I find myself using again and again to look up info on
- >dosages, effects, etc etc, and that I think every drug user should own a
- >copy of... Feel free to add to this list!
- >
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- >
- >A PRIMER OF DRUG ACTION
- >By: Robert M. Julien
- >
- >A very good book on psychoactive drugs, how the work, risks of use, and
- >many other aspects of psychopharmacology. Written in easy to understand
- >language. Includes all kinds of useful and interesting facts. Covers pot,
- >psychedelics, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, anesthetics, barbiturates,
- >benzodiazepines, tobacco, alcohol, and has 2 interesting chapters on
- >analgesics (aspirin, tylenol, ibuprofen, etc) and birth control pills.
- >
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- >
- >A HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICINES
- >By: Terence DuQuesne and Julian Reeves
- >
- >One of my favorites. Divided into 2 sections, an alphabetical entry for
- >each drug, then chapters summarizing drugs by groups. Covers
- >amphetamines/cocaine/other stimulants, antidepressants, barbiturates &
- >other downers, narcotics, psychedelics, and antipsychotic tranquilizers.
- >Contains some very useful appendices. I probably use this book more than
- >any other drug book I have.
- >
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- >
- >THE MERCK INDEX
- >
- >Good for its chemistry info. Lists almost every chemical known to man
- >that could in any way be considered a drug (from aspirin to LSD to nerve
- >gas to vitamins). Contains extensive references to other articles/books.
- >Probably of most use for its chemistry info and references. Some of its
- >drug classifications are kind of quirky.
-
- You may want to just look at the library for this since it is a rather
- expensive book and the information that most people
- (non chem/bio people) will get out of it will be slight
-
- >
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- >
- >PHYSICIANS DESK REFERENCE (aka The PDR)
- >
- >Lists many drugs, their doses, who makes them, warnings, effects, etc,
- >for almost any prescription or over-the-counter drug you can name. Has
- >lots of pictures for identifying various pills. Doesn't list many
- >illlegal drugs though, so its probably mainly of use for pill users. But
- >still a "must have"...
-
- Again you may want to check your library especially since a new one comes out
- at least every year and they are definately not cheap
- >
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- >
- >THE CONSUMER'S UNION REPORT: LICIT AND ILLICIT DRUGS
- >By: Edward Brecher & the editors of Consumer Reports
- >
- >Discusses the history and present use of various recreational drugs.
- >Comes out very strongly in favor of legalization, and has many many
- >useful facts, statistics, and references for use in any debate on
- >legalizing drugs. Also is very useful for anyone who uses drugs to know
- >this stuff for their own good. One of my favorite drug books, gets alot
- >of use.
- >
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- >
- >PiHKAL
- >By: Alexander Shulgin
- >
- AND Ann Shulgin
- >Everything you ever wanted to know about phenethylamine psychedelics
- >(mescaline, nexus, ecstasy, etc.) by the discoverer of ecstasy. A great
- >book, and
-
- This book I can absolutely recommend for users and nonusers alike. It is
- informative and the first half is an excellant well written story
- the second half is very useful for finding dosage info and for trying to
- identify unknown substances by their effects and duration. It is also very
- handy for people who are taking O-chem since it gives details of sythesisies
- that are complecated and so can be used to figure out
- when which techniques are more appropriate.
-
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- Psychedellics Encyclopedia
- By: Peter Stafford
-
- A comprehensive look at psychedellics (hence the name)
- from chemistry to history to plant sources to myths. Almost everything that
- a "for fun" reader would want to know is in here. It is also a very good
- first stepping stone for finding other sources since it has references for
- almost any question. There are some errors in the text (I can't remember
- them right now but I'm sure that someone will come along and mention it if
- it hasn't already been brought up) but they tend to be few and far between
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- From Chocolate to Morphine
- By: Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen
- I found this book to be most useful as an addendum to other texts simply
- because it seemed to be set at a slightly lower knowledge level than I wanted
- however it is an excellent source of anecdotes about different drugs taken
- from users. All in all a good book to have especialy if you are not into
- the deep sciences of how they do what they do and why
-
-
- That's all for now except for the general recommendation that books by the
- known authors (McKenna, Eisner, etc... (not Leary!!!) are good to read simply
- because the authors have dedicated their lives to this subject and tend to be
- fairly good at distilling info for the interested reader
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- Knowledge is Power,
- JHVH
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