Yesterday, the father of the drug LSD turned 100. I've never taken acid, and the many horror stories that indoctrinated me as a youth have pretty well solidified my resistance to the substance. But it strikes me as a keenly ambigious twist of fate that the creator of a chemical compound that profoundly affected our society has lived longer than most of us ever will.
From AP reporter Sam Cage ...
Father of LSD celebrating 100th birthday
From AP reporter Sam Cage ...
Father of LSD celebrating 100th birthday
More ...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."
