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- ↑ Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, pg 174
- ↑ TiHKAL. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin. http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal26.shtml