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 cancer ...

Biochemist Alexander Shulgin accidentally discovered one of the most famous and infamous party drugs of the 1980s. He synthesized a compound called MDMA in 1976 in his backyard laboratory and, as was ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Alexander Shulgin, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, died Monday at his Northern California home. He was 88. Shulgin's ...

The “Godfather of ecstasy” who reinvented the illegal party drug has died from liver cancer. Chemical scientist Alexander Shulgin earned his nickname after honing a way to make the pill - and testing ...

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 9, 2021 /Noetic Fund led the Seed round for the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute Inc. ("ASRI"), a psychedelic drug discovery company focused on the design, ...

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin was a chemist and psychopharmacologist who introduced the world to the drug MDMA – Ecstasy – while creating hundreds of other psychedelic drugs. MDMA spread from Shulgin's ...

Alexander Shulgin, who was known as the 'Godfather of Psychedelics' Credit: Photo: REX Alexander Shulgin, who has died aged 88, was an American chemist known as the “Godfather of Psychedelics”. In his ...

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Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, perhaps the greatest psychedelic research chemist of all time, passed away on June 2, 2014, just 15 days before his 89th birthday. Unaware of his dire health, High Times had ...

Alexander Shulgin, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, died Monday at his Northern California home. He was 88. Shulgin's wife, Ann, said ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy has died. Alexander Shulgin died Monday at his Northern California home at the age ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, who earned the nickname "Godfather of ecstasy" for developing a new ...