On a personal note regarding this web chat it will be very educational - I met the Shulgins about five years ago and the experience was enriching.

Soma ( Steve )

From Ethan
I am pleased to invite you to a live audio web chat at on Tuesday,
February 22 at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST with myself, Dr. Sasha Shulgin, the
noted psychedelic chemist and pharmacologist, and his wife Ann Shulgin,
the beloved writer and therapist. Dr. Shulgin, a former Dow research
chemist, is well known for his creation and discovery of new
psychoactive chemicals and for his promotion in the late 1970s and early
1980s of the use of MDMA in psychotherapy. Sasha and Ann Shulgin
together authored and published the books "PIHKAL: A Chemical Love
Story" and "TIHKAL: The Continuation," detailing the synthesis of and
their personal experience with hundreds of psychedelics.

The Shulgins will be online to address your questions on a range of
topics from the "war on drugs" to the therapeutic use of MDMA. Please
email questions@drugpolicy.org before February 22 to submit questions,
and don't forget to bookmark the chat address!

WHEN: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
3 PM PST / 6 PM EST
WHERE: http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/shulginchat

Read on for further information about the Shulgins and myself:

Sasha Shulgin studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry
and Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. He has
authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific
journals, been awarded some 20 patents and written four books. Sasha has
been studying the chemistry and effects of psychedelics for over 30
years. He was recently featured in the New York Times Magazine:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n170/a05.html?2047 , which described
him "not as a scientist in the modern sense but as a different type --
what Aldous Huxley, the novelist turned psychedelic philosopher, once
described as a 'naturalist of the mind.'"

Ann Shulgin is a therapist who conducted psychedelic therapy before
1985, when MDMA was effectively made illegal when it was reclassified as
a Schedule I drug. Ann is a researcher and spokesperson for the
beneficial use of psychedelics, including MDMA, in a therapeutic
setting. The Shulgins travel and speak extensively on the topic of
psychedelics.

I am the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the
leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the
"war on drugs." I've spent many wonderful hours with Sasha and Ann over
the years. It will be a real pleasure to have you join our conversation.

To submit a question now, please use the following email address:
questions@drugpolicy.org.

I encourage you to pass along word about the chat to other people you
know who might be interested, and look forward to seeing you online on
the 22nd!

It sounds like a very interesting event. I have bookmarked the page.