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.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-fa … 17556.html
This man, he knew.
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.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-fa … 17556.html
This man, he knew.