Remember, Kids, Psychotropics Can Kill You...Or Not

As Lewis Black likes to say - everything you know is wrong. This guy created it, he took it "hundreds of times," and he lived to be 102 years old.

Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.

The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann’s 1979 book “LSD: My Problem Child.”

Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.

He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug’s value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity’s oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life...

Though Dr. Hofmann called LSD “medicine for the soul,” by 2006 his hallucinogenic days were long behind him, he said in the interview that year.

“I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore,” he said, adding. “Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”

But he said LSD had not affected his understanding of death. In death, he said, “I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.”

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[Orb]

Albert Hoffman and Robert Oppenheimer....RIP

[Pastor Doodah]

Acid has done more for art than anything since linseed oil.

Lake Shore Drive
by
Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah

There’s a road I’d like to tell you about,
Is in my hometown
Lake Shore Drive the road is called,

And it’ll take you up or down
From rags on up to riches 15 minutes you can fly
Pretty blue lights along the way,
Help you right on by.
And the blue lights shining with a heavenly grace
Help you right on by.

And there ain’t no road just like it,
Anywhere I’ve found
Running south on lake shore drive headed into town
Just snakin' on by on L.S.D. flying that troubled bownd

And it starts up north from Hollywood; water on the driver's side
Concrete mountains rearing up those shadows just about 5
Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine
There ain’t no finer place to be then running Lake Shore Drive
And there’s no peace of mind in pace you
see riding on Lake Shore Drive

And there ain’t no road just like it,
Anywhere I’ve found
Running south on Lake Shore Drive headed into town
Just snaking on by on L.S.D. flying that troubled bownd

And it’s Friday night and you’re looking
clean, too early to start the rounds
10 minute ride from the gold coast’s back,
make sure your pleasure’s bound
And it’s 4 o’clock in the morning and all the people have gone away
Just you and your mind and Lake Shore Drive tomorrow is another day
And the sun shine fine in the morning time tomorrow is another day.

And there ain’t no road just like it,
Anywhere I’ve found
Running south on Lake Shore Drive headed into town
Just snaking on by on L.S.D. flying that troubled bownd

[cage free brown]

later today, I'll be falling off my bike in his honor.

[David in AK]

The White House (AP)--

The Bush Administration today issued a press release noting the tragic death of Albert Hofmann, inventor and heavy abuser of LSD. "There can be no doubt that LSD ends the lives of many each year, as it has in the case of Dr. Hofman," said President Bush in prepared remarks. "Mortality among those who abused drugs in 1920 is approaching 100%, and thousands more Americans are joining them in death with each passing year. We must prevail in the war on drugs, and this administration will pursue additional enhanced interrogation and other creative legal avenues to prosecute and punish the evil drug users. Americans may rest assured that any temporary losses civil liberties will be justified by ending the tragic legacy of drug abuse."

[cage free brown]

like he never dropeed acid and went cow-tipping.