The Chemical Story Part One Summary and Analysis

The second half of the book consists of a list of most of the psychedelics Shura has manufactured over the years and directions for how to synthesize them. The Drug Enforcement Agency considers this section to be nothing more than a cookbook for illicit drugs, but Shura believes it will be of great use in a more enlightened time when people are more free to experiment with mind altering substances. While it is impossible to summarize the directions for synthesizing Shura's drugs, many are accompanied by some qualitative comments, the most important of which are summarized here.

On drug number three, Aleph, Shura is able to write nearly fourteen pages of notes at five milligrams, but at ten milligrams he is terrible at mechanical tasks and feels it would be impossible to drive...