LSD inventor turns 100 — still promoting drug
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. He also had bad experiences with the drug, but 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.
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.”
Source: USA Today
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