================================================================= This file is a part of the 1999 Hyperreal Drug Archives Snapshot. This snapshot is hosted by Erowid and will not be updated after October 1999. The information in these files may be out of date. See Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults for more current info. ================================================================= 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","" -Steve- stephen.jennings@channel1.com --- þ QMPro 1.02 41-8299 þ Technology exists solely to be abused. -- Channel 1 (R) Cambridge, MA ============================================================================= 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 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! > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Knowledge is Power, JHVH