Dr Shulgin's work started at Dow, where he patented nearly 150 drugs. Then he began to work for the DEA doing research. His first book, PIHKAL is half personal account and half Merck guide on this class of chemicals - that he basically invented/discovered.
All of you luddites can thank Dr Shulgin for lots of chemicals and compounds that honestly do make life better for all of us every day - many of the tools used in brain disorder diagnostics and care also came from Dr Shulgin. Likewise, some of the CIA's most effective mind-bending compounds also came from his labs - incapacitation agents, "truth serums", chemically induced remote viewing compounds, etc. It's not all about dope, any more than the WOD is.
How many of you Einsteins have over 150 patents to your name? The percentage of flat worlders on this thread is amazing. And FYI, wagglebee, it's not exactly a "cookbook". None of his lab procedures can be followed by the vermin who make meth and the other crap you find on the street. Not only can they not obtain the precursors, but they have no knowledge of the equipment required, or how to avoid the certain death that results from improper use of those precursors. Some of the compounds he invented become psychoactive with just a few micrograms - his goal was to find an agent that would be active with only one molecule. He came close.
"How many of you Einsteins have over 150 patents to your name?"
Not me. Neither do the guys walking around with their mouths permanently half open, obliviously drooling from the long term effects of l.s.d. I know it was groovy and all, but the sixties are over.