BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...
In the spring of 1966, Stewart Brand did 100 micrograms of LSD and sat on top of a roof in San Francisco. Perched there, he looked toward a curved horizon and imagined the spherical Earth and just how ...
Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested lysergic acid diethylamide before bicycling ...
Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally absorbing a trace amount through his skin at the Sandoz laboratory in Basel ...