Better Living Through Chemistry
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.
- Year: 2021
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Better Living Through Film
- Keyword: ecstasy, chemist, psychedelics, 1980s, psychedelic drug, mdma
- Director: Connie Littlefield
- Cast: Ann Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, Greg Manning, Brian Perry, Renee Reeser Zelnick