A couple of months ago, Rudy and I were talking on the phone when he told me he had been offered…
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The Microdose: This Week in Psychedelics (The Sasha Shulgin Legacy to Artistry Laboratory Glass Project)
Harm reduction organization DanceSafe is teaming up with The Shulgin Foundation to sell pieces of art using broken glassware from the famed…
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Inside Philanthropy: The SpaceX IPO Made Antonio Gracias Vastly Richer. Here’s What He Supports.
When SpaceX went public in June 2026, the IPO minted new billionaires, created thousands of millionaires, and added substantially to…
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Time to House: Meet the Godfather of Ecstasy
Who actually put MDMA on the dancefloor? Alexander Shulgin did not discover MDMA. Merck chemists filed a patent on the compound…
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The Atlantic: The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs
Nature is always performing chemistry experiments, and in the dark and sticky corners of its forests and jungles, it creates…
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Edible Monterey Bay: Found Treasure(s): Zen Cooking, MDMA and The Scent Museum
The closing course of a flavor-forward Berkeley day involved a heroic dose of Monterey Bay creatives. “Molecule to Movement,” a…
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Esalen: Yes, Mom Took Acid: Maria Mangini on Psychedelic Elders, Hidden Histories, and the Shulgin Farm
Mariavittoria Mangini, known to many as Maria, is a nurse-midwife, scholar, psychedelic historian, and longtime advocate for the preservation…
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DoubleBlind: Ann and Sasha Shulgin Live On at the MDMA Archive Exhibition
There’s a letter from the massive Shulgin archive written by Ann Shulgin, a pioneer of psychedelic therapy and wife of renowned chemist Alexander “Sasha”…
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East Bay Yesterday: “No Casual Experiments”: Inside a Legendary Psychedelics Lab
In a small, bunker-like laboratory in the East Bay hills, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin created some of the world’s most powerful…
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