Better Living Through Chemistry

Name: Better Living Through Chemistry
Director: Connie Littlefield
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-09-21
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Ann Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, Greg Manning, Brian Perry

Directed by Connie Littlefield

Documentary

20211h 27m

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.