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Father of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday

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."


Happy Birthday, Herr Doktor-Professor Hofmann! Your little discovery set off a revolution, and LSD remains the one drug that I'd actually take again, under the right circumstances.

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson

Date: 11 Jan 2006 16:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com
That deserves a special show this weekend, methnks.

Date: 13 Jan 2006 15:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthgeek.livejournal.com
Technically, Unix came from Bell Labs Lucent in New Jersey. BSD was a derivative of Unix System V. That came from Berkeley. I know far too much about this stuff.

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