ScottP Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 On April 18th, 1944, Albert Hoffman deliberately took an oral dose of L.S.D. Having experienced its hallucigenic effects three days earlier by accident, he wanted to explore again the effects of exposure. He found it caused not just dizziness and restlessness, but also "extreme activity of imagination." His first experience resulted accidentally when the drug was absorbed through his skin upon contact with its container. He worked at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, where he had manufactured the drug three years earlier in search of a medication for respiratory troubles. Quote
catbirdseat Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 Chemists were pretty damn cavalier with the risk of poisioning in those days. Familiarity breeds complacence. A lot of them died from poisoning or cancer, for example Mme. Curie and Emil Fisher. Lord knows how Hoffman calculated what dose he should give himself based on a completely unknown amount absorbed through the skin. LSD must have a fairly wide "therapeutic window", if you excuse my use of the term for a drug with no legitimate medicinal use. Quote
AlpineK Posted April 19, 2005 Posted April 19, 2005 Come clean with us Catbird...we know you've, "tested," some of your own creations. Quote
Alpinfox Posted April 19, 2005 Posted April 19, 2005 Dimethylide? "Don't take the brown acid!" Facts Hoffman and Burroughs: Quote
Don_Serl Posted April 19, 2005 Posted April 19, 2005 aaah, scotty, that'd be "lysergic acid diethylamide"... cheers, Quote
ScottP Posted April 19, 2005 Author Posted April 19, 2005 aaah, scotty, that'd be "lysergic acid diethylamide"... cheers, I would swear I typed in "acid"... must be trippin'... As for the dimethylide/diethylamide... I'm just an idiot. Quote
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