Ask Dr. Shulgin
Posted on 12th February, 2012 by Chaz
Information about psychedelics, entheogens, empathogens (MDMA, Ecstasy), from a pharmacologist and chemist.
That no one has pursued the compound.However there is a very interesting study that took place in Leipzig about 15 years ago. Jochen Gartz, a mushroom explorer whom I know quite well, has done some fascinating studies with.species by raising them on solid media containing strange tryptamines that are alien to the mushroom. Apparently the enzymes that are responsible for the 4-hydroxy group of psilocin are indifferent to what it is they choose to 4-hydroxylate. He has taken things like DPT or