Editing PiHKAL (section)

==Impact and popularity==
Through ''PIHKAL'' (and later ''[[TIHKAL]]''), Shulgin sought to ensure that his discoveries would escape the limits of professional research labs and find their way to the public, a goal consistent with his stated beliefs that [[psychedelic drug]]s can be valuable tools for self-exploration. The [[MDMA]] ("ecstasy") synthesis published in ''PIHKAL'' remains one of the most common [[clandestine chemistry|clandestine]] methods of its manufacture to this day. Many countries have banned the major substances for which this book gives directions for synthesis, such as [[2C-B]], [[2C-T-2]], and [[2C-T-7]].

In 1994, two years after ''PIHKAL'' was published, the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] (DEA) raided Shulgin's laboratory and requested that he surrender his DEA license. Richard Meyer, spokesman for DEA's San Francisco Field Division, has stated in reference to ''PIHKAL'' "It is our opinion that those books are pretty much cookbooks on how to make illegal drugs. Agents tell me that in clandestine labs that they have raided, they have found copies of those books", suggesting that the publication of ''PIHKAL'' and the termination of Shulgin's license may have been related.<ref name="Dr. Ecstasy">{{cite news | first = Drake |last=Bennett | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/magazine/30ECSTASY.html | title = Dr. Ecstasy | work = New York Times Magazine | date = January 30, 2005}}</ref>