I was thinking it might make a nice addition if we had a Vespiary book club. Just a thread where we can post book titles that may of interest to others and maybe have a bit of discussion on the books posted. I picked the reference thread because I suppose I would prefer to see the discussion of high quality publications related to the Vespiary's main aims rather than lower quality publications and fiction which this thread may invite if it were placed originally in the den of iniquity but the mods can decide if I am wrong on this.
I often surprise myself with my ignorance of some of the great books within this particular branch of science and equally importantly my ignorance of some of its great contributors and I may not be alone in this. It was scary how long I went without ever reading any of the works of R.E Schultes. Also since there are many books available in this section it may be interesting to discuss them and point out shortcomings, errors, and excellence where it occurs. It would probably still be best to upload any materials in the other thread.
Id really like to see what you all think and can recommend from reference books to the "must read" books like TIHKAL, PIHKAL etc. I would also be interested to see any older and more obscure books brought to light as I find it terrible to think of all the knowledge we have simply let decay on shelves or considered obsolete even though the synthetic paths and precursors still work as well as they did when the books were printed.
So I guess I may as well start with an obvious suggestion
One that is available here and is definitely worth the read is Ott's Pharmacotheon which is worth reading for the references alone and suggests some obscure botanical sources for many chemicals of interest. It may be dated in some instances with respect to the law but its everyone's responsibility to take care of their own legal standing anyway. The historical section with regard to the US governments war on drugs is also very interesting.
Pharmacotheon Jonathon OTT.
http://127.0.0.1/talk/index.php/topic,794.msg9460.html#msg9460
I often surprise myself with my ignorance of some of the great books within this particular branch of science and equally importantly my ignorance of some of its great contributors and I may not be alone in this. It was scary how long I went without ever reading any of the works of R.E Schultes. Also since there are many books available in this section it may be interesting to discuss them and point out shortcomings, errors, and excellence where it occurs. It would probably still be best to upload any materials in the other thread.
Id really like to see what you all think and can recommend from reference books to the "must read" books like TIHKAL, PIHKAL etc. I would also be interested to see any older and more obscure books brought to light as I find it terrible to think of all the knowledge we have simply let decay on shelves or considered obsolete even though the synthetic paths and precursors still work as well as they did when the books were printed.
So I guess I may as well start with an obvious suggestion
One that is available here and is definitely worth the read is Ott's Pharmacotheon which is worth reading for the references alone and suggests some obscure botanical sources for many chemicals of interest. It may be dated in some instances with respect to the law but its everyone's responsibility to take care of their own legal standing anyway. The historical section with regard to the US governments war on drugs is also very interesting.
Pharmacotheon Jonathon OTT.
http://127.0.0.1/talk/index.php/topic,794.msg9460.html#msg9460
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