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The Week in Death: Alexander Shulgrin, Who Synthesized the Drug Ecstasy

Psychopharmacologist

An American chemist known as the ‘Godfather of Psychedelics,’ Alexander Shulgin originally promoted the drug now known as Ecstasy as an aid to talk therapy.

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Anthony Pidgeon

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