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, .
, Shulgin's wife and collaborator, Ann Shulgin, said:
"Sasha died today, at exactly 5 o'clock in the afternoon. He was surrounded by family and caretakers and Buddhist meditation music, and his going was graceful, with almost no struggle at all."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...asy-dies-at-88
Doves were the bomb