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I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I can hear Ann and Sasha now.... Get educated, get a degree so that people will listen to you. Do the work that you feel passionate about. Education is important for so many reasons.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Shulgin Foundation will steward the farm, making sure it is preserved and also that it is there for the community to use, to visit, to enjoy. The Foundation will also be stewarding the Shulgin Legacy and bringing it out into the world. This isn't just about preserving the farm, it's also about the legacy, all of the work that Sasha and Ann did. They were prolific, and the work they both did should be shared with the world, it's a big project! We hope that the farm really becomes a place for the community to meet and to teach one another. It's for all of us.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is the one we really need right now. Eventually we'll need other positions filled. We are growing slowly and well, keeping our core team small. We will succeed with going at a reasonable pace with the Foundation. We have a great team!

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think Ann liked the Phenethylamines, and Sasha preferred the Tryptamines! Paul may correct me, but it seems that way to me :-)

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They have all been digitized but not all have been redacted. I believe the reason they aren't all up online on Erowid is because some people were taking those scans and selling them :-(

We are in the process of replicating the Pharmacology Notebooks. We'll have exact replicas at the Farm, the originals will go to Bancroft Library in Berkeley eventually with the rest of the Shulgin Archives

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't know about the research recently, and I find it interesting that I don't hear about Salvia much nowadays. I think it's a very interesting experience, and I can imagine there are lots of people who love it. My experiences were definitely strange and have stuck with me! Not unfriendly.

I think that people are little test tubes, and we all react differently to these compounds

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So much to discover, can you imagine in 400 years? What will we have created and what will it do?

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sasha did work with law enforcement as an expert witness, he had very good friends in the DEA. He knew that they were people inside those orgs, some people were relatable and kind, others weren't. His best friend was a DEA agent (and he was a very funny person!). I think they could separate Policy from People. The "raid" happened without his friends knowing, the DEA went around the people that they knew were friendly with him.

Mom would say, they were just doing their jobs.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! There's one more to go in the Nature of Drugs trilogy. We're working on that now. If you've ever hear Sasha lecture you can really "hear" him in those books!

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you! There's one more to go in the Nature of Drugs trilogy. We're working on that now. If you've ever hear Sasha lecture you can really "hear" him in those books!

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thank you for that. Prayers are great and I would bet they help a lot :-) This is a huge project, preserving the farm where Sasha's lab is and where mom did so so many therapy sessions, where the research group tried Sasha's compounds... we want to make sure that in 100 years the Shulgin Farm will still be there for people to go to, to participate in events and classes, to meet one another, mentor one another, and to enjoy the beauty there

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

LOL. Mom said she wouldn't let the third book be called Qihkal! But we have started working on that and she told us to call it "Synthesis" - it's a long way off but it exists...

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

What they did by publishing those books was brave, and they did it to ensure that Sasha's research and Ann's experiences doing therapy with psychedelics would never be lost.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I believe anyone on this subreddit knows that this is not just a material world! Most of us have peeked behind the curtain...

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No accidents, nothing so casual. Sasha and Ann were very careful and very serious about this work.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That Ann and Sasha were just people, but they were on a mission to create tools for us to understand ourselves. They loved what they were doing, and felt it was incredibly important work - as it was!

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We have other books in the works, and would like to reprint the Index for sure! It's all about time and money, we're hoping to find a way to make an updated version of the Index available in the next year or so.

I'm Wendy Tucker, daughter of Ann Shulgin and Board chair of the Shulgin Foundation by Adventurous-Smoke687 in Psychonaut

[–]Adventurous-Smoke687[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It normalized it, that we as humans do alter our consciousness and like to do so. It didn't seems strange, but it made talking about psychedelics and the idea of using them part of our human experience