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In this episode Hamilton sits down with Dr. Casey Paleos to discuss his psychiatric and medical training, his path to involvement in the MAPS MDMA clinical trials, and his impressions of the 2024 FDA rejection of MDMA for therapeutic use in the treatment of PTSD.

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Duration: 01:55:23

Hamilton speaks with Dr. Rick Strassman about his latest book "My Altered States" and together they explore other topics including the history of DMT research, consciousness, the future of psychedelic research and much more!

This episode originally aired on Patreon January 2025.
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Duration: 01:48:50

I talk with ethnomycologist Cullen Clark about his work describing two new Psilocybe species in Southern Africa and becoming the first outsider to observe and describe the use of Psilocybe species in African traditional medicine. Clark also provides an extended analysis of African cave art depicting mushroom use.

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A clandestine chemistry interview unlike any other, this is the story of a man whose chemistry education was paid for by an organized crime ring. After learning the necessary skills, he was tasked with synthesizing increasingly large quantities of MDA under ever-rising pressure until the entire operation exploded.

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Duration: 02:51:00

In one of the strangest episodes to date,  Dr. D.C.A. Hillman explains the ancient ingredients in the Theriac and the practice of using children as drugs.

D. C. A. Hillman earned his Ph.D./M.A. in Classics and M.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin

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The first of two interviews about the Kentucky ibogaine program, this discussion is with the lawyer Bryan Hubbard, the former Chairman and Executive Director of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission. We discuss the tremendous opposition the program faced for political, pharmaceutical, and social reasons and his efforts to ensure ibogaine is made available to those struggling with opioid use disorder. 

Part two available on https://www.patreon.com/posts/pod-109-dimitri-108869460.

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Duration: 01:48:47

In this episode I speak with former Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil about his time recording music with Charles Manson and how a peyote deal gone wrong set in motion a series of crimes that forever changed the counterculture and public perception of psychedelic drugs.

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In this episode I speak with a chemist named Tarik Peterson who authored an unusually sophisticated clandestine chemistry manual in 1970 and conducted self-experiments with a variety of different psychedelics he synthesized including DMT, DET, pyr-T, aMT, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline, MDA, PMA, TMA, TMA-2, and TMA-6

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In this episode I talk with historian and drug researcher Norman Ohler about his past research on Nazi use of methamphetamine and his new book about his mother's use of LSD to help alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

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Duration: 01:26:42

In this interview I talk with lawyer Jordan S. Rubin about his new book Bizarro, which chronicles the work of two synthetic cannabinoid entrepreneurs who found themselves ensnared in a law so confusing the DEA's own experts can't agree on how it should be interpreted.

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Duration: 01:52:45

An earlier version of this was age-restricted on Youtube. I've edited the podcast to make it available to a wider audience. If you are interested in watching the uncensored version, you can find it on my patreon page: patreon.com/hamiltonmorris

This is the first of a series of Amanda Feilding interviews I hope to release in the coming months. We discuss her self-trepanation, LSD research, and her film "Heartbeat in the Brain."

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Duration: 01:29:34

Recorded after a mushroom foray at this year's Mycofest, I sit down with Alan Rockefeller to discuss Psilocybe taxonomy, wood lover's paralysis, the enigma strain, and fungal accumulation of heavy metals.

Alan's website: https://www.mycena.llc/

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Duration: 01:07:16

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Chapters:
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00:02:26 - What is your pharmahuasca methodology?
00:12:15 - Are 4-hydroxytryptamines hydrolyzed?
00:24:40 - Why is P2P a controlled substance?
00:35:54 - What do you think of LSD licenses?
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In this podcast I interview friend and adult actress Janice Griffith about drug use and the adult entertainment industry. Enjoy!

(Originally release on April 12, 2023 at https://www.patreon.com/HamiltonMorris )

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Duration: 01:54:19

An interview with infamous undercover LAPD "dope cop" Frank Lyga about his career tracking clandestine PCP synthesists.

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Duration: 01:04:16

This is a great and far-ranging discussion with chemist and neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Gallimore about his continuous DMT infusion project (DMTx) and his new book Reality Switch Technologies. Enjoy!

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Duration: 02:12:47

An interview with chemist and steroid researcher Patrick Arnold, the man behind DMAA, The Clear, and many other drugs that permanently changed the world of body building and competitive sports.

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Duration: 01:41:27

In this podcast I discuss the limits of YouTube Chemistry, chemistry TikTok houses, and selenium chemistry with Josiah "That Chemist"

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For the first time the pseudonymous author of the 1973 clandestine chemistry classic "Psychedelic Chemistry" is interviewed about his motivations for writing the book, his own experience with psychedelic chemistry, his relationships with the Shulgins, and his later interest in 3D technology and philosophy.

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Duration: 01:42:06

A never before told tale of multi-ton MDA synthesis in the 1980s. Guided by a mysterious Monsanto chemist gone rogue, our interviewee embarked on a quest to synthesize vast quantities of MDA.

Subjects discussed include: Differential MDA enantiomer psychopharmacology, chocolate LSD cat food, and Raney nickel.

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Duration: 02:25:19

The greatest living psychedelic chemist Dr. David E. Nichols tells the story of his life in research while synthesizing a novel lysergamide

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Duration: 04:02:49

In 1971 Charles Innes was entrapped, tricked into overdosing on PCP, brutalized by the Baltimore Police Department, and then mocked by journalists. For the first time Charles Innes tells the story of how he lost his vision. The uncut two hour interview audio is available on https://www.patreon.com/HamiltonMorris/

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In this interview I talk with the great medicinal chemist Dr. Robert Oberlender, he is the inventor of the multi-billion dollar blockbuster drug vyvanse and a ten year veteran of the David E. Nichols laboratory responsible for the synthesis and evaluation of a number psychedelics and empathogens such DOsB, DOiB, MDAI, and many others. 

The Ian Parker article I mentioned about the embittered ambien inventor:

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Duration: 01:50:48

This week the DEA officially withdrew their intention to prohibit five psychedelic tryptamines, this is the inside story of the legal battle behind the success featuring the great lawyers John Hunter and Matt Zorn. 

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Duration: 01:49:23

A far-ranging discussion with one of the greatest contributors to the science of psychedelics, this is a good one!

Website for the upcoming Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs. https://espd55.com/ (Note: This website appears to be under construction)

Dr. McKenna's academy website. https://mckenna.academy/

Online Amazonian biocultural archives https://biognosis.mckenna.academy/

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This is a conversation with the cannabinoid-specializing medicinal chemist and pharmacologist Dr. Sam Banister of SDB-001 fame, we discuss his career in cannabinoid chemistry and his new venture to design psychedelic treatments for depression. 

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Initially hoping to discuss the mechanics of how a drug is made illegal, I instead have a far-reaching discussion about drug policy with one of the greatest living experts on the subject. 

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An interview 14 years in the making, for the first time the true story of the penis envy mushroom is told. Many apocryphal origin stories have been disseminated (sometimes by me) now, for the first time, the true story of how the most potent cubensis strain was created is told. 

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Duration: 02:45:20

Please enjoy this conversation between Drs. Chris McCurdy, Brian Pearson, and Oliver Grundmann about new research on kratom and how it became one of the only substances to evade prohibition after being proposed for placement in schedule I.

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In this podcast I interview a former organometallic chemist named Mike Roberts who conducted underground research on DMT, DET, DiPT, DOM, 2C-B, and mescaline while working as a graduate student at UCLA. After a year of continuous psychedelic use his studies ended when began to confuse reality with a dream. I've attached one of Mike Roberts chemistry publications below. 

LINK TO PAPER

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Duration: 01:45:25

In this episode Jason Wallach and I discuss the strange origin of the head twitch response and how it became the most important behavioral correlate for 5HT2A agonism in non-human animals.

Paper: Permanent alteration of behavior in mice by chemical and psychological means

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Duration: 01:09:29

I don't usually interview people involved with the distribution side of psychedelics, but this conversation touches on so many fascinating topics in the history of LSD that I thought other people might find it interesting. The conversation covers Steve Jobs, Kary Mullis, ergotamine tartrate, LSD distribution, and SARS-CoV-2. 

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