#LSD: "#AlbertHoffman resolveu experimentar uma droga sintetizada por ele em laboratório em abril de 1943; quando ele voltava para casa de bicicleta, começaram a surgir os efeitos alucinógenos."

Ouça áudio de reportagem de Greg McKevitt, da BBC Culture. Narração de Thomas Pappon.

https://youtu.be/sDnhd-7YMxk?si=no_nwBt95UKuQx75

Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilocybin, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. The CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments (1953-1973) involved administering LSD, mescaline & other psychedelics to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. However, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra. There were other willing participants, as well, many of whom were given much larger doses. Cary Grant was a frequent and keen user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.

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Today in Labor History, April 16, 1943: Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD on this day. And forever after, working-class people could afford to take inexpensive trips without ever leaving their homes. Hoffman, who was a chemist at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, first synthesized LSD in1938. He set the drug aside for five years, before accidentally ingesting some on this date in 1943. Three days later, April 19, he deliberately ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, believing this tiny dosage would be barely, if at all, noticeable. Turns out, this is a pretty strong dose. He watched people morph into weird creatures, office furniture become “alive,” and he felt like he was possessed by otherworldly forces. He tried to ride his bicycle home, to safety, but things just got weirder. April 19 is now known as “Bicycle Day,” in commemoration of the first deliberate LSD trip.

He also named and synthesized the principal psychedelic chemicals psilocybin and psilocin, found in psilocybin mushrooms. And in 1929 he discovered the structure of chitin, the polysaccharide found in the cell walls of fungi, and in the shells of arthropods, like shrimp, crabs, spiders and insects, and in the beaks and radula of mollusks, like snails and octopi. He wrote over 100 scientific articles in his lifetime, and the book: LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child). In 1962, he traveled to Mexico to obtain samples of Salvia divinorum, but was never able to isolate the psychoactive alkaloids. He also discovered a close relative of LSD in Morning Glory seeds. In an interview just before his 100th birthday, Hofmann called LSD "medicine for the soul." Angered by its worldwide legal bans, he said argued that it had been used successfully for ten years in psychoanalysis prior to its U.S. prohibition. He also criticized its “misuse” by the counterculture of the 1960s.

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«Наука и жизнь» в декабре 1966 года писала про #LSD, Альберта Хоффмана и Тимоти Лири

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Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman

https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor

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Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.

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Happy #BicycleDay

"Bicycle Day is an international holiday that commemorates the date that Dr. Albert Hofmann first tripped on LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25), while cycling home from his lab in Basel, Switzerland on April 19, 1943."

https://capovelo.com/discovery-lsd-came-create-bicycle-day/

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Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 15, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Research John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war.

Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

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