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- ↑ "A Tryptamine Expedition, Deoxy.org website". Archived from the original on 2008-03-04. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ↑ Notes from Underground at Google.docs
- ↑ Palmer, Cynthia; Michael Horowitz (2000). Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience. Park Street Press. p. 280. ISBN 0892817577.