In this interview I talk with the great medicinal chemist Dr. Robert Oberlender, he is the inventor of the multi-billion dollar blockbuster drug vyvanse and a ten year veteran of the David E. Nichols laboratory responsible for the synthesis and evaluation of a number psychedelics and empathogens such DOsB, DOiB, MDAI, and many others.

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"This is where I think the psychedelics come in, because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse"

"The absolute victory of habit is death itself." "Life is apparently a phenomenon in this universe considerably more tenacious than stars." "When the democratic crunch hits, democratic values will go down the drain long before they turn off the lights and stop…