Albert Hoffman R.I.P.
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7374846.stm

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.



Goodbye Albert.
Many many thanks. :(

fuck, he is still alive... sorry, was still alive.. thats grammatical nonsense i know but still..... 102, not a bad innings...

rest hazily now scientist man.

ahhhh, the man responsible for my acid casualty self. Thanks!

living proff that the occasional trip adds years to your life.

have a nice trip

good day for a bike ride

He inspired me to become more politically active in the 1960s, especially after the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. "The whole world is watching," indeed... .

I think that the bigger news was that motherfucker was still alive! have you read his book about the discovery of LSD? as a drug, it is novelty, the naturally occurring versions of "hallucinogens" are much more important and long established as part of human culture. However, what is interesting to me about LSD is the sheer potency of the chemical to act on human beings. there is no other more active a substance at such miniscule amounts, its insane to contemplate, a 55 gallon drum of pure LSD-25 is something like 44,000,000,000 active doses of the chemical.

yeah, there are no other psychoactiv substances that are taken at microgram doses, millionths of a gram.

realistically, there are not many substances in the universe which have any active qualities at the microgram level, most substances are harmless at this level.

Yeah, Albert thought he was taking a really small dose, but little did he know...