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'''Alexander Theodore Shulgin''' (1925–2014), known as Sasha Shulgin, was an American medicinal chemist and pharmacologist known for the synthesis and self-experimental study of psychoactive [[:Category:Phenethylamines|phenethylamines]] and [[:Category:Tryptamines|tryptamines]]. Working largely from a home laboratory near Lafayette, California, he and his collaborators characterized the human activity of a large number of novel compounds, among them [[2C-B]] and much of the [[:Category:2C-x series|2C series]]. He is also widely associated with the introduction of [[MDMA]] to psychotherapeutic practice in the 1970s. [citation needed]

With his wife Ann Shulgin he wrote two books, [[PiHKAL]] (1991) and [[TiHKAL]] (1997), each combining an autobiographical narrative with a detailed second-half catalog of chemistry and reported effects. He held a [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] Schedule I analytical license for much of his career; a 1994 inspection of his laboratory ended with his relinquishing it.<ref name="tihkal-invasion">Shulgin A, Shulgin A. TIHKAL: The Continuation. Berkeley, CA: Transform Press; 1997. Chapter 1, "Invasion".</ref>

This article is a stub. The wiki's [[Template:ShulginsCorner|Shulgin's Corner]] component carries verbatim passages from Shulgin's published writing.

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