This 30th Anniversary Commemorative edition of PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and TIHKAL: The Continuation features the original texts with complete errata, new essays, anecdotes & reminiscences by numerous colleagues, over 200 photographs, original art, and never before published items from the Shulgin archives including the DEA file from the 1994 raid on the Shulgin Farm, correspondences, and other fascinating material from the Shulgin file drawers. In addition a sneak peak of the third book in the trilogy is included!
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 hardcover books housed in a beautiful slipcase.
The 30th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of PiHKAL and TIHKAL, a four-volume hardcover set complete with 200 original photographs, art, poetry, and numerous anecdotes and reminiscences by colleagues and close friends, chronicles the explorations of psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin into the families of psychoactive compounds known as phenethylamines and tryptamines. The set features the original texts with complete errata, new essays, anecdotes & reminiscences by numerous colleagues, over 200 photographs, original art, and never before published items from the Shulgin archives including the DEA file from the 1994 raid on the Shulgin Farm, correspondences, and other fascinating material from the Shulgin file drawers.
