Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, the pioneering pharmacologist who introduced MDMA to psychologists in the 1970s, has died aged 88 after a battle with liver cancer.
Shulgin was famed for having synthesized and tested over 200 psychedelic drugs and wrote the seminal Pihkal and Tihkal books - considered the ultimate resource on phenylethamines and tryptamines.
Most of the compounds I describe on this site were invented and first bio-assayed by Alexander and his wife Ann over the last 50 years.
And still, he managed to live to the ripe old age of 88 - godspeed, Dr. Shulgin; you have changed the world for the better.
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