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Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« on: April 30, 2008, 07:17:54 AM »
 For those of us who came of age in the late 60s and early 70s, this might be of interest. Anybody remember orange sunshine?  purple microdot?    So long ago and far away  :)

 Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious illicit substance, died Tuesday. He was 102.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/30/lsd-hofmann.html

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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2008, 07:37:20 AM »
If you ever met the man, or his invention  ;) you might want to collect some of this "art".  These are signed by Peter Fonda and Timothy Leary, but there's LOTS of very cool, unsigned ones also...






http://www.blotterart.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=2


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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2008, 09:07:37 AM »
LSD showed promise in psychotherapy
but lost credibility in the medical community after
Leary got hold of it.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2008, 09:35:12 AM »
This explains that strange sense of loss and grief I haven't been able to put my finger on.   :'(
 Once I ate a piece that would have encircled the bunny in the lower left corner of the looking glass sheet. That was a good twenty hours of the wavey, it took a full 48 hours to remember where home was. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D you get the idea.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2008, 09:40:47 AM »
Well then i am glad I got to take some of his medicine this weekend at the Coachella Music Festival!! ;D
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2008, 10:12:06 AM »
Damn hippies!


Oh wait, I resemble that remark!   ;)


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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2008, 10:20:58 AM »
Quote from: mystic_1 on April 30, 2008, 10:12:06 AM
the self-described "father" of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands.

I guess the same could be said for car keys
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2008, 05:47:12 PM »
Window pane.  Oh, yea, and I knew upperlake would come out, he's an old hippie. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2008, 06:22:24 PM »
Quote from: gerhed on April 30, 2008, 09:07:37 AM
LSD showed promise in psychotherapy
but lost credibility in the medical community after
Leary got hold of it.
Actually Bill W the founder of AA found it very good to treat Alcoholism. Unfortunately, our Society demonizes something and you just can't use it. In the UK they use Heroin on Cancer Patients and it relieves their pain very well and they are more alert than on the painkillers we use in the US.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2008, 06:38:09 PM »
Quote from: BobbyR on April 30, 2008, 06:22:24 PM
Quote from: gerhed on April 30, 2008, 09:07:37 AM
LSD showed promise in psychotherapy
but lost credibility in the medical community after
Leary got hold of it.
Actually Bill W the founder of AA found it very good to treat Alcoholism. Unfortunately, our Society demonizes something and you just can't use it. In the UK they use Heroin on Cancer Patients and it relieves their pain very well and they are more alert than on the painkillers we use in the US.

Of course, drugs produced by drug companies aren't demonized but then drug companies make lots of bucks and know how to lobby.  ;)
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2008, 06:47:08 AM »
memories..... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
many good times at the lake....
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2008, 06:57:07 AM »
Quote from: mrblasty on April 30, 2008, 09:35:12 AM
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  That's as good a description as any Blasty - its like trying to describe colour to a blind man, as I recall..
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2008, 07:19:02 AM »
Yep.  You can say "breathing walls" as many times as you want, but until you see it yourself...

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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2008, 03:25:33 PM »
or tunnel door that turns into multiple doors as opened... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2008, 03:55:27 PM »
he was in a video we watched in my last semester at school in my "drugs and society" course... yes, i saved the best courses for last  ;)

in some of the footage he looked crazed and strung out in his lab and it seemed as if he'd been up for days "testing".  great footage!   ;D

anyway... off to watch the carpet  ;)
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2008, 04:25:56 PM »
Quote from: heffay on May 01, 2008, 03:55:27 PM
anyway... off to watch the carpet  ;)

I once had the opportunity to watch oil spots on a concrete floor bloom into beautiful flowers. I sat there enjoying that for hours. Oh, what a colorful palate my twenties were.  :-X 
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2008, 04:48:11 PM »
the first time i ever tried it . i ended up going home (smart, i know) and my dad was giving me the "why are you home at 2am speech"  while i'm watching his chest hair turn green and, start growing and budding leaves and sh*t . .. and was still trying to play it cool, and not start laughing..... i ended up telling him about that a few years ago

...man, great memories
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2008, 05:06:06 PM »
wow, does this thread bring back many memories of my own extraterrestrial experiences
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2008, 05:19:52 PM »
I once discovered the meaning of life in an empty bag of cheetos.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2008, 05:32:44 PM »
Nope none of that stuff for me. I am not wrapped tight enough.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2008, 05:44:39 PM »
Quote from: BobbyR on May 01, 2008, 05:32:44 PM
Nope none of that stuff for me. I am not wrapped tight enough.

Do you mean you'd come undone?
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« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2008, 05:48:11 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on May 01, 2008, 05:44:39 PM
Quote from: BobbyR on May 01, 2008, 05:32:44 PM
Nope none of that stuff for me. I am not wrapped tight enough.

Do you mean you'd come undone?

If you ask me, I think the stuff is more for the loose ones. This is why I no longer experiment with it. I've become too much of a tight wad.... ;D Loosie Goosie baby, Loosie Goosie.
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2008, 06:00:25 PM »
  Oh ya, go with the flow :D     The flora stories are interesting - there were leaves growing from the bare tree, then they turned autumn colours, fell off and drifted down into the snow, all in -30 weather.  I think there is momentus cosmic significance in the shared experience but I can't think of what it is. ;D
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Re: Inventor of LSD dies at age 102
« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2008, 06:21:47 PM »
Sampled a lot of the local plant life in Southeast Asia. Just never had the urge. Trust me I am nuts enough as it is.
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« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2008, 06:36:13 PM »
During a mega-dose(5 hits of double dipped) I watched mountains perkolate, the Turnigan Arm(a fjord) slither like a 14 mile long silt grey snake upwards into clouds, and met a very short woman, at the time I was convinced she was an elf, turns out she was my friends mom whom I had never met and had the heater core in the station wagon blow-up and spray antifreeze all over my leg and fog the crap out of the windows. The only flash back I have ever had was 7 years after that trip, I was pulling into a parking spot and felt what I thought was hot antifreeze on my leg, and tasted the sweet taste of it in my mouth, looking dow in a panic, I saw nothing and realized what has happened. ;D
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