SAN FRANCISCO – Alexander Shulgin, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, died Monday at his Northern California home. He was 88. Shulgin's ...

While studying alkaloid natural products and their derivatives, Sandoz chemist Albert Hofmann had to leave the lab early one day in 1943 because he’d accidentally been exposed to one of his products, ...

Alexander Shulgin, the researcher who transformed MDMA from an obscure chemical to a party drug known as Ecstasy, has died at his home in Northern California. He was 88, and the cause was liver cancer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alexander Shulgin, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, died Monday at his Northern California home. He was 88. Shulgin ...

MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy, promotes strong feelings of empathy in users and is classified as a Schedule 1 drug -- a category reserved for compounds with no accepted medical use and a high ...

The FDA’s recent approval of a study testing the effects of methylenedioxymethylamphetamine – commonly known as ecstasy – on people with post-traumatic stress ...

Scientists are saying that ecstasy-an illegal drug largely connected with hardcore clubgoers-can actually treat several forms of cancer. However, a market-ready medication doctors can prescribe to ...

Less than three years after the retraction of a controversial Science paper 1 on methyl-enedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), the chemical used to make the illegal drug Ecstasy, two researchers in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy has died. Alexander Shulgin died Monday at his Northern California home at the age ...