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The Molecule That Wanted to Trip - But Made You Vomit
The Molecule That Wanted to Trip - But Made You Vomit
Amazingly, a compound first reported in 1966 triggered every animal marker of a classical psychedelic but produced no full psychedelic reports in humans for forty-one years because it reliably caused nausea and vomiting. How did a molecule that fully substituted for LSD in drug-discrimination tests stall for decades at the threshold of human validation?
In this episode, we trace quipazine’s path from a 1966 arylpiperazine antidepressant candidate to a drug that produced reproducible head-twitch responses in mice, rats, and monkeys yet…
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