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A History of Psychedelics

By Seth Ferranti — 2016

Originating in the 1960s, as a thriving part of the counterculture havens of San Francisco and New York, psychedelics have long remained immersed in the recesses of the shadow economy.

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The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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Do You Know the History of Acid or LSD?

Believing that lysergic acid had potential use in neurology and psychiatry, he proceeded with animal experimentation and further human studies.

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"Apparently Useless": The Accidental Discovery of LSD

After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.

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5 Fast Facts You May Not Know About Albert Hofmann and LSD

Hofmann was tasked with producing new lysergic acid compounds that did not have side effects. At the same time, he wanted compounds which, based on their chemistry could have pharmacological properties.

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Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His "Problem Child"

As the years accumulate behind him, Mr. Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.

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Interview with Albert Hofmann, the Man Who First Synthesized LSD

The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.

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