Better Living Through Chemistry(2021)

🎬87 min
📅2021-09-21
🎭Documentary

Overview

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.

Production

Samuel Goldwyn Films, Better Living Through Film

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Cast

Ann Shulgin
as Self
Alexander Shulgin
as Self
Tania Manning
as Self
Greg Manning
as Self
Brian Perry
as Self - Ann's Son
Renee Reeser Zelnick
as Self
Mariavittoria Mangini
as Self
Jennifer Dumpert
as Self
Fire Erowid
as Self
Earth Erowid
as Self

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