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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn't even use gloves and lived to 102.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Started to feel bad at work and then drove home on the worlds first acid trip.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't he (famously) ride his bike home?

[–] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 month ago

That was when he took LSD for the first time intentionally. There was one time before that when he absorbed it accidentally.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It was 1943 and even in Switzerland fuel was not to be had. Incidentally, it was the same day that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.

This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.

Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.

From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

at least he went about it scientifically rather than going "yo bruh try somma this shit, it's fire trust me"