Ann Shulgin (March 22, 1931) is an author and wife of famous chemist Alexander Shulgin. Jump to: navigation, search March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Alexander Sasha Shulgin (born June 17, 1925) is a pharmacologist, chemist and drug developer. ...

She has worked as a lay-therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA and 2C-B in therapeutic settings while these drugs were still legal. She often appears as a speaker at conventions, and has continued to advocate the use of psychedelics in therapeutical contexts. Jump to: navigation, search The psychedelic (from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη psyche, and manifest, δηλειν delein) drugs are classified as those whose primary action is that of enhancing or amplifying the thought processes of the brain. ... ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ... 2C-B is a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin in 1974, sometimes used as an entheogen. ...

Together with her husband she has authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL and contributed to the book Entheogens and the Future of Religion. PiHKAL is a 1991 book written by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about phenethylamines. ... TiHKAL is a 1997 book written by Dr Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about tryptamines. ...

Publications

• with Alexander Shulgin. "A New Vocabulary". In Robert Forte (ed.), Entheogens and the Future of Religion, Berkeley: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997. [ISBN 1889725013]
• with Alexander Shulgin. Tihkal: The Continuation. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1997. [ISBN 0963009699]
• with Alexander Shulgin. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1991. [ISBN 0963009605]

TiHKAL is a 1997 book written by Dr Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about tryptamines. ... PiHKAL is a 1991 book written by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about phenethylamines. ...

External links

• Erowid Character Vaults: Ann Shulgin
• A New Class of Criminals: A therapist laments the loss to science of MDMA