Could MDMA become one of the greatest drugs ever?

It could help people suffering from trauma, people who drink too much, couples in therapy and, importantly, the rest of us.

Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance
6 min readJun 18, 2021

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In 1976, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, a brilliant and eccentric chemist who concocted hundreds of psychoactive drugs in a home-based laboratory in the hills of Berkeley…

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Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance

Reporting on psychedelics, tobacco, philanthropy, animal welfare, etc. Ex-Fortune. Words in The Guardian, NYTimes, WPost, Vox. Baseball fan. Runner.