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Father of LSD takes final trip
The father of LSD and the first person to experience an "acid trip", Albert Hoffman, has died aged 102.
Swiss-born Hoffman was renowned by chemists, pharmacists and hippies the world over for stumbling across the world's first synthesised hallucinogen,
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), in 1938.
His research, for pharmaceutical company Sandoz, involved trying to find a circulatory and respiratory simulant and initially he abandoned LSD when it
failed to show any positive effects on test animals.
But five years later, on April 16, 1943, Hoffman decided to re-examine the drug and three days later he deliberately consumed 250 micrograms before
asking his laboratory assistant to help him ride his bike home.
That day, April 19, 1943, became known as "Bicycle Day" to acid aficionados.
In his 1979 autobiography, LSD, My Problem Child, he described the ride.
"On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved
mirror.
"I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had travelled very rapidly."
When he arrived home he was brought some milk by a neighbour, whom he perceived as a "malevolent, insidious witch" wearing "a lurid mask".
Six hours later the effects subsided but the legendary effects of the hallucinogen were born, and over the next six decades became an important part
of Western counter-culture and a highly controversial drug.
Hoffman always expressed his disappointment with LSD eventually being criminalised, saying the drug had the potential to deal with psychological
problems caused by "materialism, alienation from nature through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation, lack of satisfaction in professional
employment in a mechanised, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and
meaningful philosophical foundation of life".
Despite the controversy, Hoffman became a celebrated figure in the scientific community, and in his retirement served as a member of the Nobel Prize
Committee as well as being a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences.
In 1988 the Albert Hoffman Foundation was created "to assemble and maintain an international library and archive devoted to the study of human
consciousness and related fields."
The president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Rick Doblin posted a statement on the association's website
confirming the death.
"[Albert and I] spoke on the phone the day after [a] conference and he was happy and fulfilled," the statement read.
"He'd seen the renewal of LSD psychotherapy research with his own eyes, as had [his wife] Anita.
"I said that I looked forward to discussing the results of the study with him in about a year and a half and he laughed and said he'd try to help the
research however he could, either from this side or 'the other side'."
Hoffman died on Tuesday morning at his home in Basel, Switzerland, from a heart attack.
He was married with three children.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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Watched a show on the History channel about some scientist/author going to a American tribe of indians that still have peyote ceremonies so he could
join in...as he was doing this he was talking about Richard Evans Schultes and Hoffman. Its always interesting hearing dudes from Harvard talking
about the wonderful aspects of hallucinogen.
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Hoffman always expressed his disappointment with LSD eventually being criminalised, saying the drug had the potential to deal with psychological
problems caused by "materialism, alienation from nature through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation, lack of satisfaction in professional
employment in a mechanised, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and
meaningful philosophical foundation of life". |
Meh,...weed works just fine 
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upyerbum
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I follow the fungus.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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I'm still paying for the LSD I took as a teenager.......
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