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Believing that lysergic acid had potential use in neurology and psychiatry, he proceeded with animal experimentation and further human studies.
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After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.
The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Chemist who became known as the 'father of LSD' after his discovery of the psychedelic drug.
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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