Casey Hardison reflects on psychedelic insights into death and dying after attending Sasha Shulgin's memorial and visiting the Temple at Burning Man. This second installment in Casey's "Metanoia" series integrates dreams, quotes, and insights surrounding the celebration of the life of visionary chemist Dr. Alexander Shulgin.

Simon Brandt, an expert analytical and medicinal chemist at Liverpool John Moores University helps Erowid with our EcstasyData street drug analysis project. He recently edited and coordinated a special issue of the journal Drug Testing and Analysis focusing on research chemicals and new drugs available around the world.

Over the past few years, the number of novel psychoactive drugs contained in samples submitted to Ecstasydata has become increasingly complex. Even for a specialized analytical testing lab it can be a challenging process to determine the identity of samples people send in. In September, a white, crystalline solid sold in Sweden as 6-MAPB was submitted. Here's how we're working to verify what it is.