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Posted by Piotrfan on Apr-30-2008 16:06:

LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies

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Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.

Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.

He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror".

He hoped LSD could be used to treat mental illness, but it became a popular street drug in the 1960s.

'Turn on, tune in, drop out'

While working with the drug in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after first producing it, Mr Hofmann ingested some of the drug through his fingertips.

He went home and experienced what he described as visions of "fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours".

The drug was popularised by Harvard professor Timothy Leary who suggested that people "turn on, tune in, drop out".

Rock stars and the counter-culture of the 1960s picked up LSD as a wonder drug but horror stories began to emerge of users suffering permanent psychological damage.

LSD was made illegal in many countries beginning in the late 1960s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm

His invention had a huge influence on this how this world looks like now...

BTW 102 is a nice age.

R.I.P.

Posted by Allied Nations on Apr-30-2008 16:08:

tragic

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Apr-30-2008 16:12:

102...so acid prolongs life! Drop away.

Posted by Enigmatic XTC on Apr-30-2008 16:54:

thats sad. i suppose that now i have to dose tonight

Posted by jdat on Apr-30-2008 16:58:

I'm going to try and go to his funeral!

Heard the news today from a teacher and we were all kinda sad ... especially considering we did a workshop on the history of Lsd and Albert Hoffman a couple months back ( I even posted about it here on TA ).

Posted by netroM on May-01-2008 17:37:

TRIP Albert