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A Psychedelic 'Problem Child' Comes Full Circle The New York Times, Benedict Carey- "On the afternoon of Jan. 11, Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered LSD, had about a dozen friends and family up to his glass-walled home in the mountains near Basel, Switzerland, for a party. It was his 102nd birthday and, in an important sense, also a homecoming.
Dr. Hofmann, who died last week, spent the latter part of his life consulting with scientists around the world who wanted to bring his "problem child," as he called the drug, back into the lab to study as a therapeutic agent. Not long before his last birthday, he learned that health officials in his native Switzerland had approved what will be the first known medical trial of LSD anywhere in more than 35 years -- to test whether the drug can help relieve distress at end of life.
"It was something to be there, in that house," said Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit group that supports research into LSD and related compounds. "He was walking around the place, telling jokes, being a host. He seemed ... I don't know, peaceful somehow, comfortable to let the next generation carry on his spirit. And he was expressing how completely grateful he was that that we'd been able to restart LSD research -- that his problem child had come home, had become a wonder child."
Photo: A Boston-area housewife considers a Buddha statue in 1963 after taking LSD as part of an experiment by Timothy Leary.
Albert Hofmann
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- spreadingwings rated 3 months ago
- He was surely extraordinary man. His "problem child" brought numerous insights to people who'd never get them otherwise. Rest in peace and have a great reincarnation, Mr. Hofmann
- Persephone121 rated 3 months ago
- I knew there was something I forgot!!!
