High Witness Report

Albert Hoffman,

Most people that read this will never have a clue what this great mind has done for mankind.
The tormented minds of many people suffering from schizophrenia and a variety of other vicious ailments have found relief in the caring nature of this wonderful man.
I know I will never forget what he’s done for me.

Rest in peace Dr. Hoffman

102 is a pretty good run, no?

Hat tip to our brother Ed at wonderwinds.com

From Enjoy France:

Swiss LSD-discovering chemist Albert Hoffman dies

The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who became world famous for discovering the mind-altering drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel and was 102 at the time of his death.

Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while he was doing research into the ergot fungus that infects cereal crops, and he experienced his first “trip” after he accidentally ingested a small quantity of the drug.

Swiss chemist Albert HofmannAlbert Hoffman thought that LSD, or “acid” as it became commonly known, could be used as a treatment for mental illness, however, it soon became a popular drug with rock musicians and many other people in the ‘60s counterculture explosion that took place.

Hoffman had been working with LSD in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after he had first made it and some of the hallucinogenic substance entered his body through his fingers. After that he experienced some of its mind-bending affects.

Harvard professor Timothy Leary also became famous because of LSD when he started using the substance and going round advocating that people “turn on, tune in, drop out".

A backlash to Hoffman and Leary’s enthusiasm for LSD as a wonder drug was brought about with horror stories of what the substance did to some people who had taken it and it was made illegal in many countries from the late ‘60s onward.