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Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) was a Swiss chemist famous for being the first to synthesize LSD and understand its psychotropic effects. To Hofmann, ingesting psychedelics was meant to be a powerful tool in opening awareness of man’s connection to nature.

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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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A Conversation with Albert Hofmann

On November 26, 1996, Charles Grob, M.D. visited with Albert Hofmann in Rheinfelden, outside of Basel, Switzerland, where Dr. Hofmann was recovering from knee surgery. The following are excerpts from their conversation.

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Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102

Dr. Hofmann became an impassioned advocate for the environment and argued that LSD, besides being a valuable tool for psychiatry, could be used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind’s place in nature and help curb society’s ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world.

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The Road to Eleusis: An Interview with Albert Hofmann

To Hofmann, the most important thing was to prove that the ingestion of these substances was always linked to the sacred, and that their use had to be subjected to the demands of the ritual and the observance of a high priest.

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Dr. Albert Hofmann

Chemist who became known as the 'father of LSD' after his discovery of the psychedelic drug.

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Flashback: LSD Creator Albert Hofmann Drops Acid for the First Time

“It shone with the most beautiful radiance, speaking to the heart, as though it wanted to encompass me in its majesty.” Hofmann’s research would eventually become the way he could translate this profound childhood visual experience into something he could experience for the rest of his life.

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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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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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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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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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