A couple of months ago, Rudy and I were talking on the phone when he told me he had been offered a great opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind version of his Found & Found wooden necklaces using some broken glass from the historic Shulgin lab for The Sasha Shulgin Legacy to Artistry Laboratory Glass Project, a collaborative project between DanceSafe and The Shulgin Foundation. DanceSafe and The Shulgin Foundation co-created this art project to preserve psychedelic culture, sell beautiful art, and fundraise to support their mission-driven programs advancing science, education, and public health.

Through our many years of being colleagues and friends, I have been privileged to witness how Rudy turns woodworking into unique pieces of jewelry. When the Shulgin Legacy Glass Project launched last Friday, I was especially awestruck by the historical depth and cultural connections embedded in this necklace, as well as by the interconnectedness of this art collection within the psychedelic ecosystem.

The Shulgin Foundation preserves the cultural and educational legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin’s chemical exploration into human consciousness. Sasha Shulgin is widely known as the brilliant chemist who re-synthesized MDMA and other psychedelics in his lab in Lafayette, California, in the 1970s. After re-synthesizing MDMA, Shulgin gave MDMA to the psychotherapist Leo Zeff, who introduced it to a network of psychotherapists before the drug’s prohibition. These therapists would discover that MDMA-assisted therapy could be a powerful method for helping people heal and process traumatic memories.

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