LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dies
On April 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was doing just another experiment on a lysergic acid compound, when he accidentally absorbed some through his fingertips. Three days later, he ingested 250 micrograms of the compound and hopped on his bike to make his way home. That’s when he started to experience the world’s first acid trip:
“In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.”
He continued to experiment with hallucinogens, becoming the first person to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, in 1958. While he was critical of casual hippie LSD use, he was still a lifelong advocate of the drug he referred to as “medicine for the soul.” Hofman finally died yesterday of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 102. After the jump, watch a documentary about the development of LSD called Hofmann’s Potion.
[Wired]
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damn i fuckin love that shit! supposed to do some this friday. you can’t call yourself an intellectual or an ill thinker without freeing your mind first with some lsdizzle.
Comment by torch — April 30, 2008 #
Umm dude above me.
WTF?
Junkie or what?
Comment by 718Problems — April 30, 2008 #
RIP Albert Hofman
Comment by Robert Cox — May 1, 2008 #
RIP Albert Hofman.
Comment by Robert Cox — May 1, 2008 #
On death, Hofmann said, “I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.”
He was a chemist who valued a drug as a way to understand people’s oneness with nature. For the complete story on “Bicycle Day”, be sure to watch this amazing documentary Hofmann’s Potion
Comment by Jean — May 2, 2008 #
RIP
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