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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Alexander Shulgin, who over the course of 40 years of scientific research created some 200 psychedelic compounds, earning the nickname "Godfather of ecstasy" for his pioneering ...

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 ...

The Alexander Shulgin Research Institute (ASRI) shared updates on its ongoing and future projects in a conversation (see parts one and two) with Benzinga during Psychedelic Science 2023. ASRI was ...

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 ...

Pharmacologist and “godfather of ecstasy” Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin died Monday evening after a battle with liver cancer, The Independent reports. He was 88. In a note on Facebook, Shulgin’s wife, Ann ...

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 ...

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 ...