Good books on Ecstasy/MDMA and Ketamine

Hello guys!

For a paper I'm writing and also for my personal knowledge, I need to do a search about MDMA and ketamine. I wonder if you have any books you'd recommend about those 2 drugs, which would include medical facts (research type of books, kind of like DMT: The Spirit Molecule, would be perfect), but also accounts of recreational use, drug culture and whatnot. I don't have a lot of money to put on books, that's why I ask for your advice. Please and thanks!

Bass

 

It's primarily about rave culture and non clinical use of MDMA but Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds is a great book. For medical information on MDMA you'd most likely have better luck looking into abstracts in medical journals rather than a book.

I haven't read much of it but I hear Ketamine: Dreams and Realities is a good book for K.

 

Cool, thanks! I'm gonna look forward to those books and some medical journals. Wish me good luck!

Also if other people have suggestions, bring them on! The more data I have, the better.

 

Don't know of any good books about ketamine, but this is probably worth checking out

http://www.mindspring.com/~scottr/nde/jansen1.html

Karl Jansen is a psychiatrist who has done research into links between near death experiences and the ketamine state.

 

for ket: John C. Lilly is worth mentioning. Just look him up on wiki.

 

^ I think Lily lost his marbles, and had a long history of exaggerating the positive effects of ketamine and denying the negative...

Lily himself was a total wreck toward the end of his life due to constant ketamine abuse.

Not hating on Ketamine, I'm just saying I would take Lily with a grain of salt.