Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
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Albert Hofmann, a scientist who accidentally discovered and created the drug Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, has died today at the age 102.
StopTheDrugWar.com reports that Hofmann's died of a heart attack in his house located in Basel, Switzerland.
After discovering LSD, he set it aside for five years, until April
16, 1943, when Hofmann decided to take another look at it. While
re-synthesizing the LSD, he accidentally consumed a small sample and
serendipitously discovered its powerful effects. Three days later, on
April 19, Hofmann deliberately consumed 250 micrograms of LSD before
his bicycle ride home.
He is now known as the first person to experience a 'trip' from taking it. Since then, LSD aficionados around the world unofficially proclaimed April 19, 1943 as Bicycle Day.
Despite that, Hofmann denounced the illegal use of the drug which
became popular in the 1960's. He was also said to be disappointed that
further research was not conducted on it at the time.
Hofmann is also credited with the discovery of psilocybin, which is the main hallucinogenic found in Psilocybin mushrooms. He also discovered the make-up of Ololiuqui.
Hofmann was also on the Nobel Prize committee as well as a member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and several other organizations.
Hofmann was born on January 11, 1906. He is survived by, his brother Walter, 2 daughters and 2 sons, and his wife, Anita.
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Re: Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
And Hoffman was a friend of the great German war hero and nationalist writer Ernst Junger. Junger was one of the first people to experiment with LSD, which may explain the trippy, magic realist quality of some of his later work.
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Junger
Re: Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
the cia pumped lsd into the youth at the time of youth rebelion and great anti war ressistance in the late sixties and early seventies.
Lsd was their baby .
about the same time as the "ressistance "in the anti war movement in oz got active .
anyway, was regular lsd the secret of his longevity?
Re: Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
And what role did the anarchist drug dealer Dwyer have in that promotion ?
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