“Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I had to interrupt my work (…) ադառնալ return home, affected by the remarkable agitation combined with lightheadedness’. I lay down at home (…). I perceived a continuous flow of fantastic images, unusual shapes, with an intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. When Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann wrote these lines, he did not yet know it, but he had just experienced the first LSD voyage in history.
Five years ago he discovered the diethylamide of lysergic acid (German: “Lyserg-säure-diäthylamid”, hence the name LSD), without realizing for a moment its psychoactive properties. He works at Sandoz Laboratoriesr: Arthur Stoll, who is particularly interested in the parasitic fungus Ergot, known for its “mal des ardents” or “feu Saint-Antoine” epidemics. In 1918, Stoll was the first to isolate one of the compounds, ergotamine, used…
Source: Le Figaro
