Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin Synergetic Press
Alexander Shulgin, the researcher who transformed MDMA from an obscure chemical to a party drug known as Ecstasy, has died at his home in Northern California. He was 88, and the cause was liver.
Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin A Retrospective Truffle Report
news. Dr. Alexander Shulgin, the influential and beloved psychedelic pioneer, has passed away at the age of 88. He died of liver cancer on Monday, 2 June, surrounded by family and friends at his home in California. Shulgin had suffered declining health in the past few years, including a stroke and the onset of dementia beginning in 2010.
Altrove lentamente L’esperienza psichedelica di Alexander Shulgin
Mike Power @mrmichaelpower Tue 3 Jun 2014 08.58 EDT Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, who has died aged 88, was a pioneering and fearless scientist, but his chosen discipline - the design and synthesis.
Stoner Living Chronicle of Cannabis Culture, Legalized RIP Dr. Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin
In April 1960, a Dow Chemicals biochemist named Alexander Shulgin consumed 400mg of a compound called mescaline, and had his first psychedelic experience. He saw "hundreds of nuances of color" that he had never seen before. "The world amazed me," Shulgin later wrote. "I saw it as I had when I was a child.
Alexander „Sasha“ Shulgin Basel January 2006 © by LICHTBIL… Flickr
Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, the brilliant miscreant chemist who discovered scores of psychedelic drugs — including MDMA (or "Ecstasy," which he called a "low-calorie martini" — was dubbed one of the century's most important scientists by Timothy Leary. Working from a lab behind his Lafayette home on "the Farm," he and his wife Ann, with occasional…
Umro je ‘kum psihodelika’ Alexander ‘Sasha’ Shulgin ravnododna
Ann Shulgin, who alongside her husband, Alexander Shulgin, developed and experimented with hundreds of psychedelic drugs that he concocted in his California laboratory, then showed readers.
This genius chemist spent 50 years creating psychedelic drugs in his home lab…for a good cause
Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Theodore Shulgin or "Shura" was an American chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Over the span of 50 years, he created more new psychedelic drugs than any other known person to date - nearly 250 by his own accounts. [1]
'Godfather of ecstasy' Sasha Shulgin who introduced MDMA dies at 88 — RT USA News
About Sasha. Alexander T. ("Sasha") Shulgin was a visionary chemist credited with creating over 150 new psychedelic compounds and with identifying the unique psychological properties of MDMA, well-known as the prototype for a class of drugs named "empathogens" (sometimes called "entactogens") for their abilities to generate feelings of empathy, compassion, and enhanced.
Sasha Shulgin Gnostic Serpent Community
Alexander Theodore " Sasha " Shulgin (June 17, 1925 - June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author.
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, psychedelic pioneer, RIP / Boing Boing
When chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin died Monday night at the age of 88, his legacy was quickly summed up in three words: "Godfather of Ecstasy.". It's the easiest characterization of the chemist because his '70s-era synthesis of the Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA) is the most well known of his work.
Alexander Shulgin, 'Godfather of Ecstasy', Dies At 88
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the chemist and pharmacologist known for creating hundreds of psychoactive drugs and popularising MDMA, has died at his home aged 88. Shulgin, known as the Godfather of Ecstasy, died from liver cancer, having already been suffering a spate of ill health down the years, including a stroke and the early stages of dementia.
Alexander Shulgin in his lab Psychedelic Frontier
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, I learned later, was a top-rank researcher for Dow Chemical in 1960 when he ingested a psychedelic compound—mescaline—for the first time. Shulgin found the experience.
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Tue 3 Jun 2014 11.55 EDT. It's quite a trip to visit maverick pharmacologist Dr Alexander Shulgin and his collaborator and wife, Ann, at their rustic home in California. It is a warm secluded.
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Standing in Shulgin's lab just days before his death I am struck by a dim sense that Alexander Shulgin, Sasha to his friends and family, might be the last of his kind. At 88 years of age Sasha Shulgin was the last holdout of the American gentlemen scientists, self-employed innovators in the mold of Albert Einstein or Nikola Tesla..
Alexander Shulgin, Psychedelia Researcher, Dies at 88 The New York Times
Alexander T. Shulgin (June 17, 1925-June 2, 2014), known to friends and admirers as "Sasha", was a biochemist and pharmacologist best known for his synthesis, creation, and personal bioassay of hundreds of novel psychoactive compounds. Sasha was born in Berkeley, California. He first began his study of organic chemistry at Harvard University.
Goodbye Sasha Legendary Chemist Alexander Shulgin Dies at 88
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