LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102

[real6]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/lsd-inventor-al.html

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102.

Hofmann reportedly died of a heart attack at his home in Basel, Switzerland.

Hofmann's most famous discovery happened on April 16, 1943. He was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the effect it had on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip. That day became known among LSD fans as "bicycle day" because Hofmann began experiencing the drug's intense effects on his bicycle trip home from the lab.

In his autobiography, LSD, My Problem Child, Hofmann remembered his discovery this way:

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The experience led Hofmann to begin experimenting with other hallucinogens and he became an advocate of their use, in both the arenas of psychoanalysis and personal growth. He was critical of LSD's casual use by the counterculture during the '60s, accusing rank amateurs of hijacking the drug he still refers to as "medicine for the soul" without understanding either its positive or negative effects.

In a celebration of Hofmann's 100th birthday in 2006, Hofmann told the crowd of well-wishers -- which included 2,000 researchers, scientists, artists and historians -- that "LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation."

Hofmann was also the first scientist to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, in 1958.

[intruder]

I have to admit...I had my fun as well as my terrors with your "problem child"
-RIP

It was that 5000 mics of blotter that I did about 25 years ago!!!

[2013]

just read that now. well the ultimate trip i suppose for him .Im not suprised you found that on the ventnor blog the whole town is made of acid a bit like the witches house in hansel and gretels story .

[2013]

Had to add this from jonathan cainer website
http://www.cainer.com/
Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, died yesterday, aged 102. He said 'Catastrophic consequences... can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug'. Since then, pot has become much stronger... while street LSD has weakened to the point where it no longer opens Aldous Huxley's 'doors of perception', becoming the very 'pleasure drug' its inventor feared. Mind you, each time I think about taxpayers shelling out billions to prop up banks just so they can keep charging us all billions in mortgage interest, I wonder whether we haven't all been secretly spiked. :D

[esse]

LOL - being spiked only ever made me see through the lies so I don't know about that. RIP Albert - well, what a gift you gave to the world - Pity more people don't understand it, respect and revere it - know what it's really good for - Still, countless have and do and will -
But I always wondered... seriously - when LSD makes you see through shit - what in tarnation happens to evil people when they (assuming they do) take it - I mean, don't they then have to look at themselves - and if so??? Wouldn't they stop being so evil??? This has always baffled me, but perhaps our minds are intrinsically just wired very very differently... I don't know.

[glacidtek]

Reast In Peace, and thanks for the fun!

[2013]

LOL - being spiked only ever made me see through the lies so I don't know about that. RIP Albert - well, what a gift you gave to the world - Pity more people don't understand it, respect and revere it - know what it's really good for - Still, countless have and do and will -
But I always wondered... seriously - when LSD makes you see through shit - what in tarnation happens to evil people when they (assuming they do) take it - I mean, don't they then have to look at themselves - and if so??? Wouldn't they stop being so evil??? This has always baffled me, but perhaps our minds are intrinsically just wired very very differently... I don't know.

I read an article when i was doing a psychology course about LSD in America in the 60's when it wasa prescription drug still i think They used it in the prisons on people who would constantly re offend .It had such a profound effect on them and their empathy with their victims that they had an almost 100% success rate .Makes you wonder why it was criminilized and tampered with .Seen the movie Jacobs ladder? :D

[esse]

Yeah, great movie - I have read also that initially they used LSD to treat both Schitzophrenia and Alcoholism and the success rates were through the roof - there apparently have never been higher success rates for treating alcoholism! I think it was used for relationship healing as well - I know e was also used that way (though I wouldn't endorse it's repeated use). Profound deep life changing effects - yeah, LOL - well it's definitely helped open my eyes!

[binhdinh_khiwarrior]

Hope he enjoys his DMT trip...RIP

[bob_jones]

"I'm having my apendix out and no-one believes me."

That is what "he" said when asked if he was ok and had he better move away from the camp fire a bit in Glastonbury festival 1993 or 4 or so.

"You what?" relped his friend.

"I'm having my apendix out and no-one believes me", "he" replied.

I was informend and we told "him" he was tripping and to stop the worry.

But no!

"He" wasn't having any of it, his mother had had a dream and seen him in blood and not wanted him to go, and now his apendix had burst he was going to die there and no-one believed him.

So we took him, tripping over guy ropes all the way out of the green field camp site to the medical hut where I promptly informend the doctor "He's having his apendix out" as the doctor fell out of his deck chair and started hammering the floor with his fists in hysterics.

"I told you you are tripping" I said in mirth.

But they examined him giggling away and sent for a Landrover to put him in the chill out tent with all the other acid casualties and he had to spend the night listening to some bloke pasing up and down explaining how it had done his head in and he couldn't take it anymore.

The rest of us had another bong and went to bed.

But "he" came back the next day and was diapointed we had not come to get him.

How we laughed.

What happened to our advice "Only buy one incase they are duds?" we asked.

"I thought I'd buy two incase they were good" "he" relpied.

Yellow microdots!

[real6]

Hope he enjoys his DMT trip...RIP

I hope so......Still waiting for mine ;)

[clint_giles]

definately did my fair share of it in the late 80's early 90's

and im almost positive it has made me a better person ,all around.

more open mindedness for sure because of it..

thank you sir..RIP

[hadabusa]

rip, hoffmann .
thanks for those trips,it was enlightening enough to quit forever.lol

[tien an]

"I'm having my apendix out and no-one believes me."

That is what "he" said when asked if he was ok and had he better move away from the camp fire a bit in Glastonbury festival 1993 or 4 or so.

"You what?" relped his friend.

"I'm having my apendix out and no-one believes me", "he" replied.

I was informend and we told "him" he was tripping and to stop the worry.

But no!

"He" wasn't having any of it, his mother had had a dream and seen him in blood and not wanted him to go, and now his apendix had burst he was going to die there and no-one believed him.

So we took him, tripping over guy ropes all the way out of the green field camp site to the medical hut where I promptly informend the doctor "He's having his apendix out" as the doctor fell out of his deck chair and started hammering the floor with his fists in hysterics.

"I told you you are tripping" I said in mirth.

But they examined him giggling away and sent for a Landrover to put him in the chill out tent with all the other acid casualties and he had to spend the night listening to some bloke pasing up and down explaining how it had done his head in and he couldn't take it anymore.

The rest of us had another bong and went to bed.

But "he" came back the next day and was diapointed we had not come to get him.

How we laughed.

What happened to our advice "Only buy one incase they are duds?" we asked.

"I thought I'd buy two incase they were good" "he" relpied.

Yellow microdots!

Bob, that's your best post yet...you almost seem normal!
(Have you ever tried writing seriously? Creative writing, stories...? You'd be good.)

Peace,
tien an.

[tien an]

Thanks for the post real6.

What a guy Hoffmann was, eh?

RIP.

tien an.

[real6]

Thanks for the post real6.

What a guy Hoffmann was, eh?

RIP.

tien an.

Thanks :)

[kgone]

Please note the date of this article. Hoffman died April 29th, 2008. It never hurts to remember someone who opened doors for you. So yes RIP Mr. Hoffman. Happy trails

[hierophant]

*bowingdown*

[halluminati]

This did happen last year :confused:
but hey rest in peace Albert

[penfold]

This did happen last year :confused:
but hey rest in peace Albert

So did the thread, it's been 'revived'.

[cpfc12]

Must be a good sign that he died at such a late age :D

[real6]

Please note the date of this article. Hoffman died April 29th, 2008. It never hurts to remember someone who opened doors for you. So yes RIP Mr. Hoffman. Happy trails

So did the thread, it's been 'revived'.

# April 29, 2008 |
# 4:55 pm

I know, it's nice to see old stuff come up and again once in a while ;)

[free_soul]

So did the thread, it's been 'revived'.

Just like a LSD trip lol

Fucking amazing man just worked on the wrong side...

[bob_jones]

Yeah, great movie - I have read also that initially they used LSD to treat both Schitzophrenia and Alcoholism and the success rates were through the roof - there apparently have never been higher success rates for treating alcoholism! I think it was used for relationship healing as well - I know e was also used that way (though I wouldn't endorse it's repeated use). Profound deep life changing effects - yeah, LOL - well it's definitely helped open my eyes!

I love the stuff, have had far out experiences like think I and everyone else was dead but that is because we were all males on a nightime trip into the country.

It reminds me of care free days in my late teens and early twenties.

I have had some really really good times with it at festivals and gigs.

For a long time I was toldd I could only get 1000 or nothing, but it was fairly obvious that was so Charles could set me up.

In the year 2000 I began to recover from psychatry with an acid trip, it got the juse of life fllowing again, but more so with some shrooms at Glastonbury.

I think that was the last time I had any.

And I have cured a cold overnight with it and so it dose work as intended.

But it is the social life I miss, I used to have a huge circle of friends.

Last year I gave up everyting because life was hard and I just had to dig in to my resources.

I gave up booze, splifs, tobacco, coffee, cheese and really tried hard but could not bust out of the gang stalking conspiracy or the conspiracy to give me runny crap as much as they can.

So I had a knock as my plan to specialise in domestic bio-heating fuel with my OFTEC qualification went wrong due to gang stalking by people Charles had bribed.

I moved back inot my parents house but was thinner, fitter and healthy.

I loved Tredegar and Ebbw Vale swimming pool, I would have my weigh training, a swim and a sauna, and then there were all those mountains and they were snow covered too. I love hill walking especially in a blizzard.

But I was hiding something.

The last time I had sex I had been injected with a psychiatric drug and had to use cialis to get an erection, and after a bit I lost interest.

I'm usually an all night long sex athelete.

So really I have a had three one night stands in four years and none for over two years.

Various reasons, poverty, lack of freedom, circumstances and a bad attitude after suffering so much of people trying to get at you.

I mean there is my mum who will take any piece of paper with a woman's number on it, she can not, I'm hers to her mind and all other women must be excluded.

So that pisses me off, but there are bent cops who will bribe girls to stand me up on dates, so really I have to hit it off at first sight to avoid sabotage, and my parents read a book on how to ruin a childhood so apart from the games of hiding stuff and putting it back for them to find so they engineer a chance to scare you with the idea of independence; an idea that dose not work as long as I have money I need them not; but they made sure my first interest in women as a young teenager was exploted to embarrass me as much as they could, so I simply have never got off with a woman for the first time without being drunk.

So no booze= no sex to me and my amazing perfomances where replaced with the memory of the last time.

So all in all despite my rugged and resourceful character I was down in the dumps on sex in general.

Then I got chicken pox or a simillar weapon eqivalent and so my compromise plan from setting up my career again to-just go get fit-had to be delayed and as soon as I was better I got hog warts, or swine flu and I had to delay yet again.

Now the wheather has gone so gray and wet and I've only been better for just over a week but realise my physical strenght is still low.

Phew! I've just had a battering in life, no confidence.

So I started drinking again as life was too austere and the rewards I expected by not drinking did not materialise (job, woman, a future).

But that has put troubling blank spots in my memory, and my imagination and memory blur.

I found thread I had started on here about Bevis and Buthead and could not remember doing it.

Now when there are a load of bent pigs out there who are circling like sharks to set you up you really do not want to be in a situation where you have to accept their version of events becuae you were to far gone to remember the correct one.

Not that I'm that bad, some woman made a flse allegation recently and I was asked to leave a night club. But kind of like in a trance I went to hang out outside with the smokers and sussed out it was half a couple I know who got paid to give away my location to the authorities in 2004.

I had long suspected them but now the female was making up allegations out of thin air to help support Rachel Sylvester's flase allegations.

But I found out the door man knows the bloke I strongly suspect for good reason was the guy who finished of Lady Diana with a martial arts punch in Paris in 1997.

So it is not all bad and the red wine has had a threaputic effect.

But it is a dangerous world at the moment.

I used a leech on my nob and it seems to work as well as it did tem years ago now, good news, those anti-coagulants make work better than for a ong time after psychartic drus chemical induced impotence.

But I would love a good shag on LSD.

That is how I got so good at it in the first place, hitck hike up to Shrewsbury when I was 17 and see my older woman (21) take some purple ohms and do it all night long.

And then be able to do it all night long without taking it for years after.

But after psyciartic drugs you are impotent for two weeks until they wear off.

And then if you do it is it, in-out, sploosh...like you are a virging in the cat house.

LSD can so aid recovery from psychiatry.

And depression.


I love LSD.

But I have got depressed due to all this and am too weak to do enough exercise to recover.

And I have had no social contact today at all.

I should push off to France, I'm packed ready to go.

I remember drinking beer and singing songs with the Germans in 1997 in French campsites, and hearing those stereotypical apologies for the conduct of their nation during the war..all fun.

But I think I have some communication problems with the opposite sex combined with slight meomory blurring that are troubling me.

That and low physical energy.

I could do with a trip and a rave up if you folks know for one.

And all new friends too, Prince Charles is obviously bribing all the ones I have now.

Any ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4si4UOAXaaE