Alexander "“Sasha"” Shulgin (* 17 June 1925) is chemist and Pharmakologe and is admits for its work for many decades in the systematic Designen of Halluzinogenen, predominantly from the structure classes of the Phenalkylamine and Tryptamine.

After Shulgin had served in the Navy, he got 1954 its Ph.D in biochemistry to the U.C. Berkeley. Into the late 1950er and early 1960er years attained a doctorate he in psychiatry and pharmacology to the U.C. San Francisco and worked briefly as a director of the research at the bio wheel Laboratories, before it became Forschungchemikant with Dow Chemical.

Into the 1960er years experimented he with Meskalin and similar synthesized chemicals as for example CATHEDRAL. After it left Dow Chemical 1965, in order independent advisor to become, taught Shulgin health service at Berkeley University and at the San fan Cisco general Hospital.1967 it was introduced by a student into the possibilities of MDMA - admits today better than Ecstacy -, than only few humans had tried out it. Even if Shulgin did not invent this chemical, he found a new synthesis process to 1976 for it and showed this material Leo Zeff, a psychologist from Oakland, which worked in its therapy meetings with psychedelischen means. Zeff led hundreds of therapists to MDMA and it spread like a steppe fire in the Therapeutenszene. Its Partnerin Ann Shulgin organized psychedelische therapy meetings with MDMA, before it came 1985 on the list of the forbidden materials.

Since then Shulgin of hundreds of psychoaktiven chemicals and synthesized tested, as for example 2C-B. The recordings of his work is to be found in four books as well as more than two hundred work. It is active in the psychedelischen municipality, speaks to conferences, gives frequently interviews and brings the rational scientific thoughts into the world of on itself self experimentation and the consumption of Psychoaktivita.Er has the privilege to be in the possession of a national license it working with illegal substances permitted.

See also

• PIHKAL, Phenylethylamin: Category: Phenylethylamin
• TIHKAL, Tryptamin: Category: Tryptamin

Literature

• Alexander Shulgin: Control LED Substances: Chemical & legally Guide ton of Federal Drug Laws, 1988, ISBN 091417150X
• Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin: Pihkal - A Chemical Love story, Transform press 1991, ISBN 0963009605, on-line under PiHKAL available
• Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin: TIHKAL, the CONTINUATION, Transform press 1997, ISBN 0963009699, on-line under PiHKAL available
• Alexander Shulgin: The simple Plants Isoquinolines, Transform press 2002, ISBN 0963009621

Related links

• Ask Dr. Shulgin

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