Better Living Through Chemistry

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2021 / 87min.

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Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin significantly contributed to the development and psychopharmaceutical use of MDMA: a catalyst to personal doors entombed or unknown. His widow, co-author, and research partner, Ann—alongside friends, family, and colleagues—gives a guided tour of their life and laboratory, reflecting on how risks and revelations opened a world of compound enlightenment. Stippled with spirituality, sadness, and skepticism, the Shulgins’ chemical love story examines the power of psychedelic psychotherapy, sacred alchemy, and challenging the path of misunderstood resistance.

Directors

Connie Littlefield

Actors

Renee Reeser Zelnick

Fire Erowid

Alexander Shulgin

Jason Tucker

Ann Shulgin

Paul F. Daley

Brian Perry

Mariavittoria Mangini

Jennifer Dumpert

Greg Manning

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