RIP: Albert Hofmann

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1912485/Albert-Hofmann,-LSD-inventor,-dies.html

Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. 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.

Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux.

Bless you, Dr. Hofmann.

http://www.antidrug.health.am/img/lsd.jpg

i had no idea:

Actor Cary Grant and numerous rock musicians extolled its virtues in achieving true self discovery and enlightenment.

so long and thanks for the trips

Wow, I thought he died years ago! RIP!!!!!!!!!!

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Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008)

Conclusive proof that acid is really good for you. RIP

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proof that acid is really good for you

That or one raw egg a day. This calls for a study.

RIP dude, loved you in rain man

His book is total genius. Still never tried his drug.

Ditto, though I've been gently encouraged to by various friends. Maybe some day.

I'm too old for it.

http://www.gpaulbishop.com/GPB%20History/GPB%20Archive/Section%20-%201/A.%20Huxley/Image%203/huxley_a_03.JPG

Conclusive proof that acid is really good for you. RIP

Either that or riding your bike is.

"I've got a bike,
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it "

Wheh wheh wheh.

^^^ that Bachelor Pad album is great

fwiw, Huxley was taking mescalin, not LSD.

As for Dr. Hoffman, few men can claim to have discovered a drug that changed society. He could -- even if it he was beholden to the ergot fungus, which did most of the original work. His writings make him seem like one of the better sorts of scientist, curious, thoughtful, pleasant, humble.

Cary Grant & Acid

On his deathbed, unable to speak, Huxley made a written request to his wife for "LSD, 100µg, intramuscular.". According to her account of his death (in her book This Timeless Moment), she obliged with an injection at 11:45 am and another a couple of hours later.

Of course he also took Mescalin, but, y'know, pedantry.