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LSD: Fifty Odd Years
Lysergic acid diethylamide, also know as LSD, was first
synthesized from the ergot fungus in 1938. It wasn't until 1943, however,
that one of its inventors at Sandoz Research Laboratories in Switzerland
discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD. The scientist reported experiencing
"...a not unpleasant state of drunkenness which was characterized by
an extremely stimulating fantasy."
Thus began what is now over a half a century of popular
psychic exploration. My LSD commemorative stamps look a lot like the trippy
Fulbright Scholarship stamps issued by the Postal Orifice a couple of years
ago. Wasn't that pillar of propriety, President Clinton, a Fulbright Scholar?
Maybe he didn't swallow. We can assume Hilary didn't. |
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