<![CDATA[Ezekiel Golan Zeetox© ℗ ⓒ]]>https://zeetox.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aFvy!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4297655-d376-4795-998d-4845f32bf29e_629x629.pngEzekiel Golan Zeetox© ℗ ⓒhttps://zeetox.substack.comSubstackFri, 04 Sep 2026 20:54:40 GMT<![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 8]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-7abhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-7abFri, 21 Aug 2026 11:04:28 GMTIn this chapter: The unicorn goes online. Limore opens the constitution committee, and it has veto power!

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist - Chapter 7]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-e6fhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-e6fFri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:58 GMTIn this chapter: Oxford, insects, and the least convincing plant food ever.

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 6]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-9f5https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-9f5Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:55:24 GMTIn this chapter: New molecules audition. Some sparkle; some need HR.

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 5]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-196https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-196Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:32:10 GMTIn this chapter: The crown arrives. Shortly followed by panic, headlines, and legislation.

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 4]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-4fchttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-4fcFri, 24 Jul 2026 10:34:54 GMTIn this chapter: Kiosks become pharmacies, sort of. Cash develops legs.

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 3]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-786https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-786Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:38:05 GMTA quarter-ton arrives. The business plan is still buffering.

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 2]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-4d9https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-4d9Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:01:48 GMTPaid subscribers can now watch Chapter 2 — Bumping Into Love.

Last week, Gabi Shalev met khat. This week, he does what any completely normal gifted scientist would do after chewing a bitter plant and noticing its effects:

He isolates the idea, improves the delivery system, tests it on himself, accidentally becomes the most interesting person in Tel Aviv, …

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist Chapter 1]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-270https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-rise-270Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:59 GMTKing Khat begins today.

Paid subscribers can now watch Chapter 1 — Chewing Revelations.

Before he was King Khat, Gabi Shalev was a gifted Israeli scientist with a Nobel Prize fantasy, a biotech job, and absolutely no plan to become a nightlife legend.

Then New York happened.
Then cocaine happened.
Then khat happened.
Then, because chewing bitter leaves for an…

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Lingerer to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-lingerer-to-king-khat-thehttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-lingerer-to-king-khat-theFri, 26 Jun 2026 11:36:34 GMTGet ready. King Khat begins next Friday.

Starting Friday, 3 July, paid subscribers will receive a new chapter every Friday afternoon in the unbelievable true-life cinematic saga of Gabi Shalev — scientist, dreamer, self-experimenter, accidental disruptor, and a man whose quiet academic future somehow turned into chemistry, nightlife, law enforcement, international business, family negotiations, and “plant food.”

This is a story about psychoactivity, fear, prediction, love, money, medicine, and the stubborn habit truth has of emerging whether anyone invited it or not.

Eight chapters. Eight Fridays. One very unreasonable life.

Bring curiosity. Leave moral certainty at the door.

Starting in July for $5 a month.

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King Khat — Chapter Broadcast Timetable

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Friday, 3 July 2026 Chapter 1 — Chewing Revelations

A bitter leaf enters the chat. Chemistry takes notes.

Friday, 10 July 2026 Chapter 2 — Bumping Into Love

Cathinone escapes from the fields to the factory. Gabi finds love as a by-product of the process.

Friday, 17 July 2026 Chapter 3 — Turbulent Beginnings

A quarter-ton arrives. The business plan is still buffering.

Friday, 24 July 2026 Chapter 4 — Annus Mirabilis

Kiosks become pharmacies, sort of. Cash develops legs.

Friday, 31 July 2026 Chapter 5 — The Coronation and reCoronation

The crown arrives. Shortly followed by panic, headlines, and legislation.

Friday, 7 August 2026 Chapter 6 — Expeditions in Mindspace

New molecules audition. Some sparkle; some need HR.

Friday, 14 August 2026 Chapter 7 — The Birth of Plant Food

Oxford, insects, and the least convincing plant food ever.

Friday, 21 August 2026 Chapter 8 — Family First

The unicorn goes online. Limore opens the constitution committee, and it has veto power!

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]]><![CDATA[From Lab Coat to King Khat: The Rise of a NeoShulginist]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-risehttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/from-lab-coat-to-king-khat-the-riseTue, 23 Jun 2026 13:01:42 GMTGet ready. King Khat begins next Friday.

Starting Friday, 3 July, paid subscribers will receive a new chapter every Friday afternoon in the unbelievable true-life cinematic saga of Gabi Shalev — scientist, dreamer, self-experimenter, accidental disruptor, and a man whose quiet academic future somehow turned into chemistry, nightlife, law enforcement, international business, family negotiations, and “plant food.”

This is a story about psychoactivity, fear, prediction, love, money, medicine, and the stubborn habit truth has of emerging whether anyone invited it or not.

Eight chapters. Eight Fridays. One very unreasonable life.

Bring curiosity. Leave moral certainty at the door.

Starting in July for $5 a month.

Language: English

King Khat — Chapter Broadcast Timetable

Friday, 3 July 2026 Chapter 1 — Chewing Revelations

A bitter leaf enters the chat. Chemistry takes notes.

Friday, 10 July 2026 Chapter 2 — Bumping Into Love

Cathinone escapes from the fields to the factory. Gabi finds love as a by-product of the process.

Friday, 17 July 2026 Chapter 3 — Turbulent Beginnings

A quarter-ton arrives. The business plan is still buffering.

Friday, 24 July 2026 Chapter 4 — Annus Mirabilis

Kiosks become pharmacies, sort of. Cash develops legs.

Friday, 31 July 2026 Chapter 5 — The Coronation and reCoronation

The crown arrives. Shortly followed by panic, headlines, and legislation.

Friday, 7 August 2026 Chapter 6 — Expeditions in Mindspace

New molecules audition. Some sparkle; some need HR.

Friday, 14 August 2026 Chapter 7 — The Birth of Plant Food

Oxford, insects, and the least convincing plant food ever.

Friday, 21 August 2026 Chapter 8 — Family First

The unicorn goes online. Limore opens the constitution committee, and it has veto power!

]]><![CDATA[My Career hereto in Seven Strata...]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/my-career-hereto-in-seven-stratahttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/my-career-hereto-in-seven-strataFri, 29 May 2026 04:57:50 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[A Spotlight on Lanmaoa asiatica and it's 'little' surprises...]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/a-spotlight-on-lanmaoa-asiatica-and-51dhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/a-spotlight-on-lanmaoa-asiatica-and-51dMon, 25 May 2026 04:46:52 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[The story I want to tell you today is a good opportunity to get to know a molecule that I haven't yet discussed on this page, 2-CB.]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-story-i-want-to-tell-you-today-dddhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-story-i-want-to-tell-you-today-dddSun, 17 May 2026 14:57:30 GMTA 4 1/2 minute listen

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]]><![CDATA[Listening to our Subconcious Mind]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/listening-to-our-subconcious-mind-108https://zeetox.substack.com/p/listening-to-our-subconcious-mind-108Fri, 08 May 2026 03:10:21 GMT- This is a voice recording of the original text essay

Ayahuasca’s legendary brew gets a scholarly detour: Benny Shannon studies its phenomenology, while Mendel Kaelen points out that deeper Amazonian traditions sometimes use only Banisteriopsis caapi bark—suggesting the vine’s pharmacology, culture, geography, and evolutionary backstory are gloriously…

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]]><![CDATA[How the many different ways of being alike, are unlike, the many similar ways of being different...]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/how-the-many-different-ways-of-being-e88https://zeetox.substack.com/p/how-the-many-different-ways-of-being-e88Tue, 05 May 2026 05:49:53 GMTSmall molecular differences can lead to surprisingly big changes in how substances feel and act. Even compounds that look nearly identical on paper behave differently in the body because their 3D shapes and movements affect how they interact with receptors. The result: similar structures, but distinct experiences—showing that being alike doesn’t mean be…

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]]><![CDATA[A Spotlight on Lanmaoa asiatica and it's 'little' surprises...]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/a-spotlight-on-lanmaoa-asiatica-andhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/a-spotlight-on-lanmaoa-asiatica-andTue, 03 Feb 2026 13:14:41 GMT

One thing I love about our world is that (it often seems like) it’s always1 possible to run into new things and learn something new. Thus, a month and a half ago, I read an article that dealt with a psychoactive fungus I had never heard of until then - Lanmaoa asiatica.

What’s interesting about this mushroom, which can undoubtedly be classified as an hall…

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]]><![CDATA[The storyline for my recent posts has taken on a life of its own]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-storyline-for-my-recent-posts-22ahttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-storyline-for-my-recent-posts-22aWed, 31 Dec 2025 23:40:17 GMTI try to prepare a predicted list of topics, but then I write a post and suddenly discover a side topic that interests me very much, and I want to dive into it, so I abandon the plan. This is also the case of the current post, which deals with a mathematical and abstract topic. On the other hand, instead of losing the attention of readers who do not hav…

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]]><![CDATA[‏How the many different ways of being alike, are unlike, the many similar ways of being different...]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/how-the-many-different-ways-of-beinghttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/how-the-many-different-ways-of-beingThu, 18 Dec 2025 20:05:10 GMT1I find that one of the most confusing and therefore problematic things about the perception of psychoactive substances is that most people are convinced that molecular similarity necessarily entails similarity in effect. I have mentioned a few times that in practice this is not the case (the QSAR paradox). But since this is an important point that peopl…

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]]><![CDATA[3-MMC Safety has Passed the Highest Stringency of Medico-Scientific Scrutiny Currently Applied on this Planet.]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/one-of-the-most-common-claims-thathttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/one-of-the-most-common-claims-thatThu, 11 Dec 2025 17:07:03 GMTAs it turns out, previous publications by toxicologists or writers of reviews - do not stand up to the evidence produced by unbiased rigor. To belabour the obvious, the problem with new molecules is that they are ‘new’... I believe that, in essence, the argument against them comes from the depths of the dungeons of the fear of the unknown.

When compounds…

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]]><![CDATA[The story I want to tell you today is a good opportunity to get to know a molecule that I haven't yet discussed on this page, 2-CB.]]>https://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-story-i-want-to-tell-you-todayhttps://zeetox.substack.com/p/the-story-i-want-to-tell-you-todayFri, 28 Nov 2025 23:51:42 GMTBut moreso, it is a self-criticizing reflection going back to the foundations of Shulginism and neo-Shulginism.

2-CB is a molecule, discovered by Alexander Shulgin. It belongs to the phenylamine family that he loved and researched and to which he dedicated the book PiHkaL (an acronym for “Phenethylamines i Have known and Loved”).

The phenylamines are all …

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