Licensed To Thrill

Licensed To Thrill is the complete interview  by Jim McClellan with Alexander Shulgin the man dubbed “Dr Ecstasy”, the scientist that re-discovered ecstasy, studied E, as well as hundreds of other Phenethylamines.

A sunny afternoon in Lafayette, near San Francisco. I’ve just been asked by Ann and Alexander Shulgin if I would like to try a special recipe of theirs.

Now if you know a little about Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, you may be sniggering at the thought of what I may be about to receive. After all, the white-haired goateed 69-year-old (who with his playful offbeat charm is like the kind of funky grandfather everyone probably wishes they’d had) has been labeled by some “the stepfather of Ecstasy” (he didn’t discover the drug, but he did rescue it from obscurity, writing the first scientific papers about it).

Alexander Shulgin is certainly the world’s foremost psychedelic chemist, a man who, in order to investigate the potentials of visionary drugs, has designed over 150 of his own, going on to test them and carefully document their effects.

This is a very interesting read.

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