Science literature on psychedelics

[freediver]

I'm trying to obtain articles, literature, etc on the mechanisms of how psychedelics work in the brain and the physiological and psychological effects. Any scientific journals on the subject or writings about studies done would be what i'm looking for. If someone could reccomend such works or point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

[EllisDTripp]

Have you tried googling on "psychedelics pharmacology" or something similar?

[somethingwitty]

Also try Erowid.org Keep in mind that the majority of "scientific" information is going to be from the 1960s as psychedelics were mostly outlawed after that. Another good way to search would be translations of research from other countries.

[Sri Baba]

You actually think a bunch of flower children are going to be able to understand science?

[freediver]

its so fucked up that its almost impossible to research these days b/c of legal issues. Fact is alot of ppl are still putting this stuff into thier bodies and research should continue on the physiological and psychological effects. seems like psychedelics get ignored b/c they are not used anywhere near as much or often as other drugs. and it seems like alot of research like w/ psychedelics could be used to understand the mechanistic workings of the brain/nervous system.

[Psylence]

in the roduim archive found on erowid...you link to the phamacology database right under the chemistry one..also erowid has some good info on LD50's and toxicity

[Tarantism]

hit up your local barnes and noble and you may be suprised at what you find. there is many a book on LSd and also many of the shamen books mention or talk about mescaline/peyote extraction. i have yet to find more than one book on DMT. MDMA you can probably find scarse literatiure as well, but that is simply becuase it has turned int o aparty drug as opposed to a "true to form" psychedelic.

happy hunting,

[BoozeJockey]

If you have access to scholarly journal databases...

Search PubMed or Biological Archives and you may find some old research articles...From there for the full text of the articles you can mess around trying to find them online, or you can usually find the full text in the journals at your local library.

[EllisDTripp]

http://www.maps.org
http://www.heffter.org

[polymer]

http://hedweb.org

i also heard shulgin is working on a "Psychedelic Index", modelled after the "Merck Index", which will probably list receptor affinities.

[Neuronaut7]

If you are afilliated with any school system, at least in the US, you should have access through your libraries to a number of research databases, such as Academic Search Premier (under EbscoHost) and other similar databases.