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.

• Connie LittlefieldDirector
• Connie LittlefieldWriter
• Andy McNeillOriginal Music Composer

• Ann ShulginSelf
• Alexander ShulginSelf
• Tania ManningSelf
• Greg ManningSelf
• Brian PerrySelf - Ann's Son
• Renee Reeser ZelnickSelf
• Mariavittoria ManginiSelf
• Jennifer DumpertSelf
• Fire ErowidSelf
• Earth ErowidSelf
• David E. PrestiSelf
• Sunny HeartsongSelf