Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry and Assays

Documents:

• San Pedro Potency FAQ
  An inforrmal response to some common questions. From Usenet, 1994.
• LSD Analyses
  PharmChem analyses, 1972-1974.
• An Analysis of "Hearts", a Tablet Sold as "Ecstasy" on the Australian Black Market
  An informative UseNet posting from 1994.
• LSD Purity - Gospel and Heresy
  A good critical review of the ever-popular issue.
• Extraction and analysis of indole derivatives from fungal biomass
  by Jochen Gartz, from Journal of Basic Microbiology, 1994, 34(1):17-22.
• New Aspects of the Occurrence, Chemistry, and Cultivation of European Hallucinogen Mushrooms
  by Jochen Gartz, from Supplemento agli Annali dei Musei Civici di Rovereto, Sezione Archeologica, Storia e Scienze Naturali, vol. 8 (1992).
• LSD Purity: Cleanliness is Next to Godheadliness
  An article critical of the purity of LSD by Bruce Eisner. From High Times, 1977
• Cultivation and Analysis of Psilocybe Species and an Investigation of Galerina steglichi
  by Jochen Gartz, from Annali Museo Civico di Rovereto, vol. 10, pp. 297-306, 1995.
• Impurities in illicit amphetamine: a review, A. SINNEMA, Delft University, The Netherlands
  Reviews the most common synthesis of amphetamines, Emphasis is laid on the detection, isolation and identification of impurities
• Analysis of Three Mushroom Species
  by Cynase, Version 1, October 1996.

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Contacts and URLs:

• Alkemists Pharmaceuticals (homepage, more info)
  "An independent contract laboratory dedicated to: Natural Product Consulting, Quality Control, Research & Development Manufacturing"
  • HPTLC profile of Salvia divinorum leaf
    Compares the chemical constituents of two different clones. (related items...)
• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases (homepage, more info)
  Database of chemicals found in plants
• ecstasy.org (homepage, more info)
  "ecstasy.org aims to gather and make accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about the drug ecstasy (principally MDMA)."
• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • Analysis of the Composition of Marijuana and Tobacco Smoke (related items...)
• Hedonistic Imperative (homepage, more info)
  Entry point for an eclectic group of sites with information and opinions on many things, including drugs.
  • Quantitative analysis and pharmaco-toxicity of cannabinoids in commercially available cannabis seeds
    Abstract from Yakugaku Zasshi 1998 Sep; 118(9):408-14 (related items...)
• London Toxicology Group (homepage, more info)
  • Tiletamine info
    Information on tiletamine in misrepresented black market drugs (related items...)
• Rhodium (homepage, more info)
  Drug chemistry and pharmacology
  • Natural pH Indicators
    by Rhodium, 1998. (related items...)
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • FTIR Spectra of Drugs
    Sells FTIR spectra of drugs, intended for use in forensics (related items...)

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