Posted on 01/11/2006 4:16:29 AM PST by beyond the sea
http://wjz.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_010144726.html
Father Of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday
(AP) GENEVA LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday — in good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic.
"I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said, recalling his first accidental consumption of the drug.
"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he told the Swiss television network SF DRS. "What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared."
Hofmann, who also had bad experiences with the drug, continues to insist it should be legalized for medical treatment, particularly in psychiatric research. But LSD's reputation has been as turbulent as some acid trips.
The drug earned a bad reputation amid fatalities associated with hallucinations and reports of "flashbacks" — the recurrence of hallucinations when not taking the drug.
LSD inspired the 1960s hippy generation and was immortalized in the Beatles' hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," although the band denied any connection. But it was also known as Like Swift Dead.
For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.
"I produced the substance as a medicine," he said. "It's not my fault if people abused it."
The chemist — who still takes nearly daily walks in the picturesque village where he lives in the Jura mountains with his wife of 70 years, Anita — discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm, now part of Novartis.
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Here goes:
You are one of the nastiest people I've encountered on FR. Maybe you are the center of your universe --- never suggested that, moron!
You are nothing but a druggie so your opinions, accounts, anecdotes, etc. mean nothing and are value-less.
I hardly imbibed any of these things in the past 30+ years. You really are a spectacular moron ......... or you just cannot READ!
As for knowing nothing, I hardly think your LSD use was done in the name of science. --- no one suggested that it was done "in the name of science". You still are "stuck on stupid".
Oh, and one last thing, your little stories about your ecstatic drug experiences really made me want to throw up. --- LOL ......"throw up" --- if you could only throw up on your shoes. Oh, you still are "stuck on stupid".
I pray you don't work in any kind of environment where other people's safety is at stake.
You're still quite consistent ................ "stuck on stupid".
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By the way, if you know absolutely nothing about something such as LSD, it would be best for you to be silent on the matter!
I'm 59 years old and never drink coffee, so I make no assumptions about the effects of a few cups of coffee on an individual.
You need to get a grip..............
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STUCK ON STUPID .......... LOL!
Ain't gonna happen.
I live in Indy ;)
A very inspiring story. I'm sure that crap (weight gain) happens all the time on LSD (sarcasm off).
Btw, genius, your friend is one of a kind gaining a lot of weight while doing LSD! What were his initials ................ M.M.?
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Ah..... "hair stylist" .......... you just may be a woman. LOL.
No wonder you are so self-righteous about this. Just figure if your unfortunate hair stylist had ever used a little LSD .......... I'd stick with him if I were you ...........he just might be creative enough now to be able to do something with your hair to make you look somewhat presentable.
;-)
The Lt. in HRP screening asked me if I thought my past
drug usage would prevent me from doing my job in the
Air Force. I said no, so she told me to say from then on
that I tried Marijuana only ten times and Acid once.
I also held a Top Secret clearance because I worked
around crypto keying material.
I'll bite, since no one else has. What can LSD teach you about nature that careful observations and rigorous adherence to the scientific method cannot? It's been around for decades, so there must surely be many accounts of natural discoveries brought on by LSD, right? If I lock Alcubierre and Hawking in a room with some acid and a white board, will I have a working warp drive by morning? If I give an African cryptozoologist some acid, will he find Mokeli Membe? (Probably. But can he bring it back?)
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LOL Sure, Doc, medical treatment.
If the Doc thinks I buy that story, he's taken one too many trips.
Well, there ya go - you just proved that LSD users do suffer flashbacks.
That said, me taking LSD again probably is not going to happen. But I'm still looking for a way to naturally achieve the experience.
My instinct tells me the best way to get high naturally is to study and follow the word of God. I don't do a very good job of that most of the time.
It's been around for decades ---- what's been around for decades?
If I lock Alcubierre and Hawking in a room with some acid and a white board, will I have a working warp drive by morning? If I give an African cryptozoologist some acid, will he find Mokeli Membe? (Probably. But can he bring it back?) --- I appreciate your sense of humor.
All I know is that, for example, I know nothing about heroin or "ecstacy" .......... never used either. But, I know quite a great deal about LSD. It is absurd for those who have never used a drug to suggest that they know much of anything about its REAL effects.
And let me say just one more thing. This question of the "good or bad" concerning the use of LSD is not unlike the question about GUNS!
It's not the gun that does the damage, it's the user who may do the damage with improper use. With LSD, (marijuana, alcohol, etc.), it's not necessarily the drug itself that is intrinsically evil or harmful............. it is, of course, the user who may misuse the drug.
The ignorant (unknowing) posters on this thread cannot know about LSD just as I know nothing of heroin. They should then stop making their very foolish assumptions and their uninformed attacks.
Go Steelers!
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Any oxygen at birth???
"You just keep thinkin', Butch, that's what you're good at." (sarcasm off)
A great post, if I may so. You are a wise human, imho.
It would be great to achieve the same thing naturally --- As I mentioned earlier, one of the great things about LSD, imo, was that once you have "observed" something on LSD, you needn't take it again. The experience teaches you that these beautiful things are always here to see, feel, and to rationally consider .......... if we just take the time to pay attention.
I appreciate your post........... you have been there.
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You caught me in a rare humble moment. I won't let it happen again!
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You have been there. I wish I could have gone to the mountains with you............. I was stuck here in Pittsburgh....... but it's all good when your mind is right or if you are in the right space.
BE WELL, brother!
I really wish more folks could see ...........as you do.
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LOL.................... you know what......... I have this so far unspoken idea............ how about all the older FReeper "space-cadet's getting together somewhere after we win the 2008 election and after Ted Kennedy finally dumps that death car, that '67 Olds Delta 88' on EBay..... we could most likely have a pretty good time.
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