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"Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102. Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus. He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror". He hoped LSD could be used to treat mental illness, but it became a popular street drug in the 1960s. 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' While working with the drug in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after first producing it, Mr Hofmann ingested some of the drug through his fingertips. He went home and experienced what he described as visions of "fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours". The drug was popularised by Harvard professor Timothy Leary who suggested that people "turn on, tune in, drop out". Rock stars and the counter-culture of the 1960s picked up LSD as a wonder drug but horror stories began to emerge of users suffering permanent psychological damage. LSD was made illegal in many countries beginning in the late 1960s. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm


I hope he had one last trip before he went out! That leary guy lived to a ripe old age too. who says drugs are bad for you?

4/30/2008 5:31:28 AM

Well that fucking sucks

4/30/2008 5:40:48 AM

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"who says drugs are bad for you"

all the mentally fucked up, physically fucked up, and dead people do.

4/30/2008 5:47:36 AM

^

Eventhough I'm hoping the JAY was being sarcastic.

4/30/2008 5:51:56 AM

No one listens to the mentally fucked up, the physically fucked up can't say anything and I'm pretty sure dead people have never said anything. No, I'd say it's definitely other people who say that.

4/30/2008 6:08:13 AM

who says he even did his drug regularly

4/30/2008 6:23:37 AM

we've lost a great scientist . . ..

4/30/2008 6:34:09 AM

i just think it is amazing that this dude lived to the age that he did. the discovery of LSD aside, he was a chemist his entire life and certainly worked with noxious chemicals that we now know to be carcinogens, mutagens and worse-- without that knowledge and without proper safety precautions. if you doubt that, his discovery of the effects of LSD upon the body is certainly proof- he wouldn't have gotten exposed and tripped balls if he had been wearing some gloves.

4/30/2008 6:40:24 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24378509/

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"He himself took the drug — purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest — for several decades. "LSD can help open your eyes," he once said. "But there are other ways — meditation, dance, music, fasting." Even so, the self described "father" of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands. This was reflected by the title of his 1979 book: "LSD - my problem child.""

4/30/2008 6:42:03 AM

some of you people are retarded

he might not have been a terrible person but anyone who has seen the terrible, long term effects on someone who lost it, wouldn't be calling him a "great man".

fucking hippies

4/30/2008 6:55:48 AM

What a trip, man.

4/30/2008 6:57:14 AM

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"He himself took the drug — purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest — for several decades. "LSD can help open your eyes," he once said. "But there are other ways — meditation, dance, music, fasting." Even so, the self described "father" of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands. This was reflected by the title of his 1979 book: "LSD - my problem child.""

Plus, the dude lived to be 102. I'm in no way advocating this drug, I'm just saying people tend to generalize something like this unfairly. The guy said it wasn't for everyone. Of course someone with a preexisting mental illness shouldn't take it. The same way someone with a preexisting mental illness shouldn't do a lot of things.

4/30/2008 7:03:47 AM

Albert Hoffmann; a Great Man

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"some of you people are retarded he might not have been a terrible person but anyone who has seen the terrible, long term effects on someone who lost it, wouldn't be calling him a "great man". fucking hippies"

STFU bigot

what does he, a scientist, have to do with the negative effects of irresponsible or improper use of a drug?

should the inventor of the atomic bomb be blamed if a terrorist nukes something?

how about whoever invented whiskey? they've sure got a lot of blood on their hands....

should the inventor of the wheel be blamed when someone gets hit by a car?

no

you are a fucking idiot

you're suggesting that he's responsible for every negative thing that resulted from his discoveries

damn you're a fucking moron

GTFO and get a clue

asshat



why don't you read what he has to say








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4/30/2008 11:15:15 AM

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"I'm pretty sure dead people have never said anything. No, I'd say it's definitely other people who say that."

LOL WINNAR!!!!!1

4/30/2008 11:19:21 AM

Alexander Shulgin and Albert Hoffmann are heroes

4/30/2008 11:43:38 AM

editorial illustration i made from a couple years back

4/30/2008 11:46:00 AM

dude, the circles are moving

4/30/2008 11:47:27 AM

How unfortunate. If anyone knows where to find some LSD pm me por favor!!!!

6/10/2008 5:08:43 PM