The underground mastermind of psychedleic cookery, Uncle fester provides the most-detailed, comprehensive and concise description ever of several of the methods employed in the preparation of lysergic acid diethylamide, or better known as LSD, from natural sources. Uncle Fester also offers a breakthrough in psychedelic a simple process for extracting the hallicinogenic drug TMA-2 from the commonly-grown calamus plant. Also AN OVERVIEW OF LSD PRODUCTION / NATURAL SOURCES OF THE LYSERGIC AMIDES, INCLUDING HARVESTING PROCEDURES FOR ERGOT-INFESTED RYE & SPARTINA MARSH-GRASS / AN INTERPRETATION OF LSD-PROGENITOR ALBERT HOFFMAN'S PATENTED "ONE-POT SHOT" METHOD OF LSD SYNTHESIS, PLUS PURIFICATION AND STORAGE TECHNIQUES / PLUS MUCH. MUCH MORE. Book states "Sold for information purposes only!".
I routinely whip up a batch of minding chemicals using common kitchen ingredients with the aid of Uncle Festers's classic psychedelic manual. Selected copies of the book were rumoured to have been soaked in some of Dr Hoffman's finest concoctions resulting in many copies being served on toast. A perennial best seller to be found in many university libraries, make sure you acquire a copy before they're in short supply
Starts off strong but my undergrad organic chemistry lab had better instructions than this. It reads like a cookbook and there isn’t as much chemistry as I hoped there would be. At least the author knows his audience.
I find it hilarious the author wrote a chapter on how to evade the Feds when he himself was caught by them. Even more laughable is that he suggests an ideal “self destruct” option is just a single stick of dynamite. Suffice to say I’m not surprised the Feds nabbed him.
always a fun read, though don't go following the chemistry here without actual lab background and checking out the various (uncollected) errata and enlargements published over the years. the chapters on ergot farming are good stuff.