FATHER OF LSD

R.I.P Albert Hofmann

11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008

He was the Swiss chemist who accidentally

invented LSD and then tested it on himself

in the first human LSD trial.

Bicycle Day is April 19, commemorating

April 19, 1943, when Dr. Albert Hofmann

first took LSD intentionally.

Three days earlier, he had absorbed

a small amount of the drug either through

his fingertips or by accidentally ingesting it.

On Bicycle Day, he took 250 µg of LSD

intentionally and, fearing he had made

himself ill, cycled home from his lab. During

his bicycle ride, he experienced the effects

of LSD, making this the date of the first ever

acid trip. He wrote about his experiments and

experience on April 22, which was later put

into his book LSD: My Problem Child. (1980)

Why "My Problem Child"?

He strongly believes LSD can be

a beneficial way for one to get to know

oneself and experience other worlds, but

only if the user is mentally and physically

prepared for the journey. Kids in the 60s

getting drunk and dropping ten hits gave

the drug a bad name, to say the least...

"I think that in human evolution it has never

been as necessary to have this substance

LSD... It is just a tool to turn us into what we

are supposed to be."

Albert Hofmann died of natural causes on April

29, 2008 in the village of Burg im Leimental,

near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102 years old.