D.M. Turner was an author

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, psychedelic

Psychedelic drug

A psychedelic substance is a psychoactive drug whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception. Psychedelics are part of a wider class of psychoactive drugs known as hallucinogens, a class that also includes related substances such as dissociatives and deliriants...

 researcher

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 and psychonaut who wrote two books on psychoactives and entheogens. His more prominent book, The Essential Psychedelic Guide was the first of its kind and contains Turner's views on the subjective effects of various psychoactive and hallucinogenic mind-altering substances.

His other book, Salvinorin addressed salvinorin.

Turner died on New Year's Eve 1996 after injecting an unknown quantity of ketamine

Ketamine

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while in a bathtub. It is believed that he drowned while incapacitated by the effects of the drug.

Writings

• The Essential Psychedelic Guide. Turner, D.M. 1994. (ISBN 0-9642636-1-0)
• Salvinorin: The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia divinorum. Turner, D.M. 1996. (ISBN 0-9642636-2-9)

External links

1. D.M.Turners only interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?id=dmturnergips