This episode is titled "Psychedelic Psychopharmacology" - An Interview with Dr. Dave Nichols" and is being released on Friday, July 23, 2010. My interview with Dave was recorded on July 20, 2010.
What does Rick Strassman's research on DMT, Roland Griffiths' research on psilocybin, Rick Doblin's research on MDMA, and current research on LSD all have in common? Today's guest. He's one of the world's leading pharmacologists, a world renowned expert in psychedelic drugs, the only chemist in the US allowed to legally make LSD, DMT, MDMA, and psilocybin for clinical research, and we're going to ask him, amongst many other things, how the psychedelic experience takes place.
David E. Nichols, Ph.D. is the Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology at Purdue University, specializing in Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology. He's the founder of the Heffter Research Institute on Psychedelic drugs, and the head of the Purdue University Library Special Archives and Collections on Psychedelic Drugs.
www.heffter.org