[Closed] RIP 'Godfather of E'

Indeed 🙂

Never actually heard of him till now but he's been an inspiration.
That's for sure.

Drug culture .......inspirational, innit :roll:[img] [/img]

You look good in that photo Dunstick. New hat?

Indeed…rip "Sasha", when i heard the news yesterday the first thing i did was ring round a few friends and start organising a beach party - we're gonna send him off in good style.

At a conservative estimate from the early 90's through to early/mid noughties i must have gobbled 1000's of the lovely…lovely little things….doves…crowns…mitsi's etc…etc… It's not the same now, haven't been near one for 8 years due to impurities and gaw'd knows what they're made with but i do like decent crystal MDMA when i feel the need.

I bought [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pihkal-A-Chemical-Love-Story/dp/0963009605 ]Pihkal[/url] & [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tihkal-Continuation-Alexander-Shulgin/dp/0963009699 ]Tikhal[/url] back in the 90's and they're one of my more thumbed heavyweight pharmacological texts, fascinating trip reports on hundreds of different substances.

One of my prized possessions is a hand written letter i received from Sasha back in the 90's, i wrote to him when i was caught with a personal amount of MDMA asking him if he could provide me with a suitable response to use in my court case but thankfully it never went to court due to a police cock-up.

Anne Shulgin will be lost without him……...

Here is tribute to Shulgin by a mate [url= https://soundcloud.com/mike-hulme/mike-hulme-100mg-u-a-recordings-128-preview ]100mg of MDMA by Mike Hulme[/url]

There's a video somewhere as well but i can't find it, youtube prob took it down.

Drug culture .......inspirational, innit

Showing your ignorance of the drug in question there, fella.

Last paragraph...

Prof David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and a former government adviser, said fewer young people might have died from recreational drug toxicity if society had "listened and learned from Shulgin rather than tried to suppress his knowledge and ideas".

Indeed

I'm with you Somafunk!

I can endorse all of the above though I don't think that Shulgin was particularly enamoured with the party culture thing that much. But nevertheless.

These threads are always good for outing the narrow minded STWers who I can make a note to avoid and discount all their opinions in the future.

These threads are always good for outing the narrow minded STWers who I can make a note to avoid and discount all their opinions in the future.

Oh the ironing 😆

I thought he was called Ebeneezer?

These threads are always good for outing the narrow minded STWers who I can make a note to avoid and discount all their opinions in the future.

Oh, I dunno. I find even though some folk are narrow minded in some areas, they demonstrate the opposite on another topic.

And you have to give folk a chance to be educated regardless of age. Ignorance is the real issue...

Oh the ironing

Can you expand on that, or do you just have tourettes?

Oh, I dunno. I find even though some folk are narrow minded in some areas, they demonstrate the opposite on another topic.

And you have to give folk a chance to be educated regardless of age. Ignorance is the real issue...

I've no problem with people with different opinions on this particular topic, just the judgemental way in which they are delivered. I don't think that's particularly hypocritical.

Regardless, it's all about the LOVE! 😀 8)

just the judgemental way in which they are delivered

I agree but we all can be cocks at some point. No point in sniping to prove your point - all in my opinion. Which is just today's opinion. Tomorrow's opinion may differ...

Regardless, it's all about the LOVE!

Acme, brother, Acme. Or something...

8)

I can often be difficult to express yourself on a forum and as such opinions can come across as over judgmental. You should keep an open mind in all areas.

The fact that we have been totally indoctrinated with the message that all drugs are bad and evil then it is likely that people will have some very strong opinions on this subject.

In some cases, people have died from taking ecstasy.

Quick google for ecstasy mortality brought up this balanced website, fun!
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/ecstasy/scientific-information.html

*eg some shite mdma was mixed with, other substances imbibed etc

Rave, rave against the dying of the light, I presume...

A bit of DuckDuckGoing suggests the risks are there but very low. 5% of French and British 16 year olds have tried ecstasy and the death rate in France is stable at about 4 per year. Those that die are from the very small number of people that have a low tolerance to the drug. A risk comparable with taking paracetamol then.

Edit: following links confirms that in the deaths that are entirely attributable to ecstasy there is little or no dose correlation. Of that 4 a year, in about half the deaths the ecstasy was just one of the substances injested.