Part of the US Government’s experiments in the 1950’s. Look how they deteriorate. (via Digg)
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That bottom one could be worth something now.
I was in pharmacy school at the time that study was done and did a term paper on the product.
A chemist at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland (named Hoffman?) came up with LSD-25 (which Sandoz called Delysid). The chemist accidentally took some of the chemical internally, and he described the effects it had on him. Note we’re talking about microgram dose having weird mental effects, for hours. Very potent stuff!
Yes, it was Hoffmann.
And he wrote one of the most erudite, and no conicidentally scientific accounts of an acid trip- hilarious in spots due to its clinical description of the obviously recreational implications of the experience.
Yes, it was Hoffmann.
And he wrote one of the most erudite, and not coomcidentally scientific, accounts of an acid trip- hilarious in spots due to its clinical description of the obviously recreational implications of the experience.
Just saw this, and i must tell you , he started as an illustrator and became an artist for a few hours. The first and last are the worst. He realised this and became disillusioned and wanted to go home.
The Doors of Perception was written under the influence of Mescaline not LSD
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