Leo Zeff

Leo Zeff was an American psychotherapist in Oakland, California who pioneered the use of ecstasy (MDMA) and other psychoactive drugs in psychotherapy in the 1970s.

In 1977, when Alexander Shulgin introduced Zeff to MDMA, the drug was still legal. Zeff popularized it in the psychotherapeutic community, [cite news | first=Drake | last=Bennett | coauthors= | title=Dr. Ecstasy | date=2005-1-30 | publisher= | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/magazine/30ECSTASY.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position=&oref=slogin | work =New York Times Magazine | pages = | accessdate = 2008-06-01 | language = "Ann Shulgin remembers a speaker at Zeff's memorial service saying that Zeff had introduced the drug to 'about 4,000' therapists."] dubbing it "Adam" because he believed it returned one to a state of primordial innocenceFact|date=September 2007.

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