A new day.

Well, last night my friend got in a car accident drunk. So far this has happened to 2 of my friends in the past month. Why don't they just listen to me? Luckily, both times nobody got anything more than a bit tongue, and a scratch on the head.

Yesterday I spent a good hour reading up on a organic chemist that has dedicated her life to researching and creating new and known psycho-active chemicals.

She's writting a book, I believe it's called PiHKAL, but the entire book is published on the internet for all to read on her site: Isomerdesign.com

It's extremely interesting, as she has a very unbiased view on the drugs effects, and she tests them on herself, at certain doses, sometimes many different doses.

There was one that interests me very much: it's called DOB or DOBU.

This is a very strong drug, at the potency of MDMA, yet it lasts for an extremely long time.
Most, and almost all psychoactive drugs in orally injested, last anywhere from 1 hour to 8 hours, usually not over 10...
DOB is very different.
It takes 4 to 7 hours for the affects to become noticeable.

It lasts for up to 60 hours.

60 Hours of a psychoactive drug in your system is very, very intense. Sleeping must be close to impossible, until your brain becomes used to it.

But what interests me most is the question why is this substance so different? Why is there chemicals that are broken down in 8 hours, the usual time for almost all digestion and absorbtion of the G.I. tract to take place, yet DOB starts when all of that usually ends? Interesting.

This got me thinking, somewhat deeper and more meaningful: What if, from birth, an animal was given a different neurological communicater than serotonin, i.e. LSD, Psilocybin(?), DOB, Mescaline, etc?

Would this animal view the world completely different? Would it's motivations be the same?

I wonder if I should change my Major from Physical Chemistry (Solar energy) to neurology...

It's either saving the world with solar energy, or saving sanity with Neurology.

So many choices, so little time!!