LSD Inventor Celebrates 100th Birthday

[The Straight Story]

LSD Inventor Celebrates 100th Birthday

POSTED: 2:26 pm EST January 10, 2006

GENEVA -- LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday -- in good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic.

"I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said, recalling his first accidental consumption of the drug.

"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he told the Swiss television network SF DRS. "What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared."

Hofmann, who also had bad experiences with the drug, continues to insist it should be legalized for medical treatment, particularly in psychiatric research. But LSD's reputation has been as turbulent as some acid trips.

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[Neil Lisst]

1. See! We told you it's bad for you!!

hehe

[lildreamer316]

2. Now if they would just do the same

for X...
We are missing so much healing by making these drugs illegal.
Duh.

[az chela]

3. I love this guy!!!

Happy birthday Abbie!!!!
I have read your book and several books about you and you along with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert and Terrance Mckenna are my heroe's
Nothing like those shrooms

[struggle4progress]

6. No, Abbie took his own life a few years back.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. If ya like shrooms

You should read the works of the guy who basically discovered their use as hallucinogens in the 1950's and opened up their trade on the world market: R. Gordon Wasson. He co-wrote a book with Hoffmann as well, and Hoffmann, I believe, travelled to Mexico to particpate in a mushroom valeda with Maria Sabina.

BTW, Abbie Hoffman (the hippie) is not Albert Hoffmann (the chemist).

[johnnie]

4. Wow, he's still alive?

That was my "costume" back in my 20s for Halloween. I would wear a smock, Lennon shades and some strange ties or something and go out as Dr. Hoffman.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Happy Birthday, Hedrr Hoffmann

I celebrate your fortuitous self-experiment. Bravo, sir!

[Dr Fate]

8. Thank you for that vacation to the Swiss Alps.

Or was that Hilton Head, South Carolina?

[driver8]

9. Thank you for allowing me to "see" music as well as hear it!! n/t