Who invented LSD and why?
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it started off really..as an accident!\n\nDr. Albert Hofmann (born January 11, 1906) is a prominent Swiss scientist and best known as the "father" of LSD. He was born in Baden, Switzerland, and studied chemistry at the University of Zürich. His main interest was the chemistry of plants and animals, and he later conducted important research regarding the chemical structure of the common animal substance chitin, for which he received his doctorate. Hofmann joined the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories (now Novartis), located in Basel, studying the medicinal plant squill and the fungus ergot as part of a program to purify and synthesize active constituents for use as pharmaceuticals.\n\nHis research in lysergic acid, the central shared component of ergot alkaloids, eventually led to the synthesis of LSD-25 in 1938. It was five years later, on repeating synthesis of the almost forgotten substance, that Dr. Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD after accidentally absorbing some through his fingertips on April 16, 1943. Three days later, on April 19 (later known as Bicycle Day, after his bicycle ride home that day while under LSD's influence), Hofmann deliberately consumed 250 µg of LSD, and experienced far more intense effects (see: LSD for details). This was followed by a series of self-experiments conducted by Hofmann and his colleagues. He first wrote about these experiments on April 22 of the same year.\n\nHe became director of the natural products department at Sandoz and went on studying hallucinogenic substances found in Mexican mushrooms and other plants used by the aboriginal people. This led to the synthesis of psilocybin, the active agent of many "magic mushrooms."\n\nHofmann also became interested in the seeds of the Mexican morning glory species Rivea corymbosa, the seeds of which are called Ololiuhqui by the natives. He was surprised to find the active compound of Ololiuhqui chemically similar to LSD.\n\nIn 1962, he and his wife Anita travelled to southern Mexico to search for the plant "Ska Maria Pastora" (Leaves of Mary the Shepherdess), later known as Salvia divinorum. He was able to obtain samples of this plant but never succeeded in identifying its active chemicals.\n\nHe calls LSD "medicine for the soul" and is frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. "It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis," he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960s and then unfairly demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He concedes LSD can be dangerous in the wrong hands. [1]\n\nHe has been the author of over 100 scientific articles and has written (or co-written) a number of books, including LSD, My Problem Child, which is partly an autobiography and describes his famous bicycle ride.\n\nOn the occasion of his 100th birthday on January 11, 2006, he was the focus of an international symposium, which drew further media attention for his discovery of LSD.\n\n"I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD," said Hofmann. "It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
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Sure can.  I can tell you that LSD was placed on stamps for transfer into prisons.
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Yes. They really didn't get into the LSD era until "Revolver" in 1965. Best Beatles album ever! Well, except for "Abbey Road".
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You are correct in re: to the picture that julian drew. In fact, the reason I know is I too had a dream. Saw that sketch myself once in that flight of fancy. I was bewildered as to why he didn't himself write a song about that- and how fantastic it would be if he would have. During this "dream" of mine he, (John) told me two things; this song has nothing to do with LSD and that you will meet the internet god/goddess who is the lyrical philosopher that graced me (John) and all of us with the beauty of "Lucy in the Sky" - Thank you doing so. My answer is You. Never stop dreaming.\nI'm not worthy.\nP2TP
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I used to follow around the Grateful Dead. LSD was what a Dead show was made for. There not around anymore, and I haven't dropped acid for over 10 years. But I can tell you it was absolutely for sure more than my fair share of fun in life. It was unlike anything else. Pure joy. It has given me an entirely new way to see everything. I'm lucky in the sense that if I had done to much.....I mean if the Garcia had not have died when he did....I would have been out there a few to many years. And you can not do to much of that stuff before you can permanently lose your mind. But the point is that it was a time in my life that allowed me to see just how incredible life can be. Just how limitless the power of our minds and bodies are. I have and will have that knowledge, experience, love and appreciation of life....for the rest of my life.
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Philo T. Farnsworth \nhttp://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/farnsworth.htm
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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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LSD\n\nLysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. A typical dose of LSD is only 100 to 150 micrograms, a tiny amount roughly equal to one-tenth the weight of a grain of sand. Threshold effects can be felt with as little as 20 micrograms. LSD causes a powerful intensification and alteration of senses, feelings, memories, and self-awareness for 6 to 14 hours. In addition, LSD usually produces visual effects such as moving geometric patterns, "trails" behind moving objects, and brilliant colors. LSD usually does not produce hallucinations in the strict sense, but instead illusions and vivid daydream-like fantasies. At higher concentrations it can cause synaesthesia.
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Largest LSD Lab Seizure In DEA History\n\n\nWilliam J. Renton, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the St. Louis Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and United States Attorney Eric Melgren announced today that William Leonard Pickard, 58, Mill Valley, California, and Clyde Apperson, 48, Sunnyvale, California, were sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers. Pickard was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Apperson was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment without parole.\n\nMelgren said that Pickard and Apperson were found guilty on March 31, 2003, following an eleven week jury trial of one count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute more than 10 grams of LSD from August 1999 through November 2000 and one count of possession with the intent to distribute more than 10 grams of LSD on November 6, 2000.\n\nMelgren stated that according to court testimony, this was the single largest seizure of an operable LSD lab in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA agents seized approximately 41.3 kilograms (90.86 pounds) of LSD, approximately 97.5 kilograms (214.5 pounds) of lysergic acid, a precursor to LSD, approximately 23.6 kilograms (51.92 pounds) of iso-LSD, a by-product from the manufacture of LSD and 19 kilograms (41.8 pounds) of ergocristine, a precursor to LSD with the ability to create an additional 12.4 kilograms (27.28 pounds of LSD.\n\nhttp://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/sanfran112403.html
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What do you want to know?  He is considered the father of experimental chemistry.  He is credited with describing the Law of Conservation of Mass.
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The person who introduced the concept of the pH scale was Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen. He was born in Denmark and was head of a laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark's capital. It's hard to say exactly where the scale was introduced since it was introduced around 1901, but it is most likely in this laboratory that he discovered it.
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(m)\n\nThe swedish guy  invented the Crazy Frog
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LSD is very, very, very dangerous to take without the supervision of someone who knows how to handle subjects on the drug.  It's an extremely powerful drug with some remarkable effects, but please don't use it for kicks.  It should only be used for a purpose and under the (still illegal) supervision of people who know what they're doing.  Never get high on LSD without someone to watch out for you.
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Huxley was already a respected writer when he volunteered to be a subject in experiments involving the effects of mescaline.  He wrote about this experience in his essay "The Doors of Perception".  Huxley came to believe that the human mind is not like a file cabinet filled with the things we know, but is instead like a filter that keeps out most of the perceptions of which we are capable.  He argued that the hallucinatory experience loosened that filter a bit, allowing us to perceive more of the infinite that is around us.  He related this to the experiences of religious mystics and visionary artists, saying that a similar "filter-loosening" happens in their minds, too.  The drug experience shaped how Huxley felt about our minds, knowledge, God, and many of the other subjects that he went on to write about.
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CIA, the military, FBI...you name it.  In Russia, they experimented with LSD.\n\nThe government also gave free cig's, participated in torture, and started massage houses <prostitution of the locals> for the military boys.
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Albert Hofmann, the scientist who happened upon the compound for lysergic acid diethylamide.\n\nHe's deeply disapointed that his discovery has been turned into a recreational drug.\n\nHe believes that it could make great strides in helping mental illness but burned out dope fiends ruined it.
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CAREFUL....that's LSD