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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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Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day

With Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s...

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Brian Blomerth
2019
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LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine

The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 60s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research.

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Stanislav Grof, Albert Hofmann (introduction), Andrew Weil (foreword)
2008
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Hofmann’s Potion—Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary

By the mid-1950s, LSD research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them.

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Albert Hofmann
2012
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The Accidental Creation of LSD (The Origin of Bicycle Day)

The creation of LSD was unlikely. On April 19, 1943, young chemist Albert Hoffmann took the first intentional acid trip of all time. He came out of the experience realizing he had creating something extraordinary. Thousands of psychedelic users worldwide now commemorate this epic day as Bicycle Day.

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Albert Hofmann
2020
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Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis

Still lecturing until his death at 102, Dr Albert Hofmann would have been a remarkable man even if he hadn't discovered the chemical compound that changed the course of the 20th century—LSD.

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Albert Hofmann, Amanda Feilding (editor)
2010
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LSD, My Problem Child

This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. In LSD: My Problem Child, we follow Dr.

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Albert Hofmann, Jonathan Ott (translator)
2024
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