Turn On, Tune In, Drop Deap: LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann, RIP
Nick Gillespie | April 30, 2008, 8:50am
The creator of LSD, Albert Hofmann, is dead at the ripe old age of 102 (he’s pictured at the right by artist Alex Gray). The man who launched a thousand trips first synthesized the drug in 1938 and then learned of its hallucinatory effects five years later, after accidentally ingesting it.
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