pharmacology

South Africa is the last place on earth Quaaludes can still be found. Hamilton travels there to study the drug and finds a dark history of medical experimentation.

An aquatic voyage across continents to understand hallucinogenic fish.

Hamilton meets a few mushroom kingpins in their subterranean mushroom chamber.

Hamilton seeks out a shaman to perform the traditional ceremony honoring the psychedelic plant Salvia divinorum.

From Oaxaca to YouTube, Hamilton investigates the plant Salvia divinorum.

Hamilton meets Mexican mushroom shamans, clandestine growers and taxonomists.

Hamilton meets Timothy Wyllie, an artist and founding member of The Process Church whose experiences on PCP led him to be an advocate of the drug's use.

Hamilton tracks down a former PCP cook and uses his recipe to try to make the liquid version of the drug in a lab.

Hamilton meets PCP users, dealers, chemists, and dolphin telepathy enthusiasts.