AN EVENING WITH DR. SASHA SHULGIN AND ANN SHULGIN
WHEN: Monday, June 21st from 6 – 8 pm
LOCATION: John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
899 10th Avenue, Room 203 between 58th and 59th, New York City
CONTACT: To RSVP or for more information,
please contact Julie Ruckel, 212.613.8053
The Drug Policy Alliance and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice are co-hosting an evening with Dr. Sasha Shulgin, the noted psychedelic chemist and pharmacologist, and his wife Ann Shulgin, the noted psychotherapist.
Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, Ph.D., is best known for his creation and discovery of new psychoactive chemicals. Sasha earned his doctorate in biochemistry from UC-Berkeley in 1954 before eventually becoming a senior research chemist at Dow Chemical. Best known for his work with synthesizing MDMA or “ecstasy”, Sasha was first introduced to the drug in 1967 at San Francisco State University.
Though Sasha was not the first to create MDMA, he did create a new synthesis process and introduced the drug to Bay Area psychologists who incorporated the psychedelic into their therapeutic practice. Word about MDMA’s benefits quickly spread beyond the therapeutic community. In addition, Sasha has created and self-tested hundreds of other psychoactive chemicals.
Ann Shulgin, Sasha’s partner is a lay therapist who conducted psychedelic therapy before 1985, when MDMA was effectively made illegal when it was reclassified as a Schedule I drug. Ann is a researcher and spokesperson for the beneficial use of psychedelics, including MDMA, in a therapeutic setting.
Sasha and Ann Shulgin are authors of PIKHAL, A Chemical Love Story and TIKHAL, Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved and detailing the synthesis and personal experience with hundreds of psychedelics. The Shulgins travel and speak extensively on the topic of psychedelics.
