Alexander Theodore Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use. He discovered, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
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Alexander Theodore Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use. He discovered, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential. In 1991 and 1997 he and his wife Ann compiled the books PIHKAL and TIHKAL, from notebooks which extensively described their work and personal experiences with these two classes of psychoactive drugs. Due in part to his extensive work in the field of psychedelic research and the rational drug design of psychedelic drugs, he has since been dubbed the \”godfather of psychedelics\”. He was born in Berkeley, California, to Theodore Stevens Shulgan and Henrietta D. Shulgen. His father was born. in Chelyabinsk, Russia, while his mother was.
born in Illinois. He dropped out of school to join the U.S. Navy. In 1943 he was given a glass of orange juice by a nurse prior to surgery for a thumb infection. The experience made him aware of the influence of placebos over the human mind. He later reported personal revelations that had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid… I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability. In 1988, he authored a book on controlled substances, then-definitive law enforcement reference on psychoactive chemicals.
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