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THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
www.cia.gov16, 1943, Dr. Albert Hofmann made an extraordinary discovery—by accident. At 37, with close-cropped hair and rimless glasses, Hofmann headed the company's research program to develop marketa-ble drugs out of natural products. He was hard at work in his laboratory that warm April day when a wave of dizziness sud-
LSD Fact Sheet - Drug Policy Alliance
drugpolicy.orgLSD was discovered in 1938 by Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist working at Sandoz Laboratories, who later became the first person to experience the drug’s psychoactive effects after he accidentally ingested a small amount in 1943. The effects Hofmann reported included, “restlessness, dizziness, a dreamlike state
Psilocybin Mushrooms Facts Sheet Final - Drug Policy Alliance
drugpolicy.orgAlbert Hofmann. Hofmann isolated psilocybin and developed a synthesis for the drug in his lab at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, which then started producing 2 mg pills to be distributed for research purposes.xii For the next two decades thousands of doses of psilocybin were administered in clinical experiments. Psychiatrists, scientists and mental health
How to Change Your Mind - University of Madras
www.unom.ac.inAlbert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD, a Manhattan banker and amateur mycologist named R. Gordon Wasson sampled the magic mushroom in the town of Huautla de Jiménez in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Two years later, he published a fifteen-page account of the “mushrooms that cause strange visions” in Life magazine, marking the moment when
LSD — My Problem Child - MAPS
maps.orgJunger, and Walter Vogt, writers who are all but unknown here. With the notable exceptions of Huxley and Wasson, English and American writers on the hallucinogenic experience have been far less distinguished and eloquent than they. This translation has been carefully overseen by Albert Hofmann, which made my task both simpler and more enjoyable.