Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2016)

Former goth stripper Krystle Cole talks about her time spent living in a subterranean missile silo converted into a luxurious LSD manufacturing facility. She spent three years of her life running from the DEA, being held partially against her will and used as a guinea pig for strange new psychedelic chemicals. Eventually her friends-turned-captors were arrested and Krystle herself barely escaped incarceration. She now makes her living as a writer, sharing her experiences in books and on the web.

We took a trip to Amsterdam to learn about the ban of psychedelic mushrooms and the rise of truffles that contain psilocybin (the stuff that makes you trip balls).

There is an Amazonian frog called Phyllomedusa Bicolor or the Sapo which I have been reading about for years. It is totally different from the psychedelic toads found in North America. The Sapo's venom produces an effect much closer to morphine than LSD, but really it's not like either of those things. It's a distinctly vomitous dissociative experience unlike anything else I've ever encountered.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 1, Hamilton takes off for Port-Au-Prince on a quest for the secret poison.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 2, we attended a Voodoo ceremony and watched as a pig was sacrificed in order to become an ambassador to the gods.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 3, we were granted a meeting with the leader of the Bizangos, a Haitian secret society and beholder of the formula for zombification. Negotiations are made and a local Bokor agrees to create a nzambi—for a price.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 4, we went searching for the secret ingredient in the zombification powder, a poison extract from the Tetraodontidae, also knows as the Pufferfish.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 5, Hamilton takes a large dose of the zombie powder to prove his strength. He is rewarded with a peak inside a zombie's shed.

Rumor has it that there is a secret drug in Haiti that can turn the living into Zombies. In part 6, Hamilton procures a sample of the zombie powder and its mysterious antidote. He returns home to subject both to extensive chemical analysis.

With comedian Joe Rogan as his guide, Hamilton Morris travels across the United States seeking new heights of sensory deprivation.

Zolpidem tartrate, or Ambien, has been prescribed to millions of insomniacs internationally, yet those who use the drug to ensure a good night's sleep are seldom aware it also possesses the ability to normalize functioning in certain types of damaged neurons, a phenomenon called "the Ambien effect."

Swaziland is a landlocked country sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique. Despite Swaziland's small size, it boasts more hectares of land dedicated to growing Cannabis than all of India. It is also home to Swazi Gold, the legendary sativa strain. Hamilton travels to Swaziland hoping to chemically analyze the cannabinoids present in some of the local strains. Instead, he finds a country steeped in political corruption and economic turmoil. Cannabis is viewed by many growers, users, and politicians as a drug that will cause insanity, but it may be Swaziland's only hope for economic stability.

In 1998 the antiretroviral drug efavirenz was approved for treatment of HIV infection, though the drug was highly effective, patients soon began to report bizarre dreams, hallucinations, and feelings of unreality. When South African tabloids started to run stories of efavirenz motivated rapes and robberies scientists began to seriously study how efavirenz might produce these unexpected hallucinogenic effects.

Hamilton Morris travels to New Zealand to meet the king pin of New Zealand’s legal highs crusading for his fading dream for future of drug control.