http://www.metafilter.com/tags/alberthofmann Posts tagged with 'alberthofmann' at MetaFilter. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:28 -0800 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71253/Hes%2Djoined%2DLucy%2Din%2Dthe%2Dsky Albert Hofmann, the inventor/discoverer of LSD, has <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_trips">died</a> at the age of 102. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann">Wiki.</a> <a href="http://www.hofmann.org/">The Albert Hofmann Foundation.</a> <a href="http://www.erowid.org/">Erowid</a> entry on <a href="http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml">LSD</a>. Hofmann's often-cited essay, "<a href="http://www.hallucinogens.com/hofmann/child11.htm">LSD, My Problem Child</a>." Late in his life, he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html">questioned </a>his own invention. A <a href="http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v08n3/08330hof.html">conversation</a> with Dr. Hoffman. "I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild." -- Albert Hofmann (1906-2008) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71253 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:28 -0800 alberthofmann drugs inventors LSD obitfilter problemchild psychedelics wildcrazynights CitizenD http://www.metafilter.com/25153/What%2Da%2Dlong%2Dstrange%2Dtrip%2Dits%2Dbeen <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2577103">LSD turns 60!</a> 60 years ago today, Albert Hofmann accidently mixed up a batch of lysergic acid diethylamide-25 and took a "beautiful and pleasant" bike trip home from his Sandoz AG lab. His book "LSD: My Problem Child, Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science" can be found on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874772567/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Amazon</a> or for free at <a href="http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/">http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/</a>Even though Hofmann isn't really for the use of LSD outside of the medical community, some <a href="http://www.hofmann.org/">zealots</a> started a foundation in his honor. (Hofmann thinks people might hurt themselves while under the influence.) Regardless, the 97 year old Hofmann is still alive and is one of the major influences in modern popular culture history. Who were the Grateful Dead without LSD? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25153 Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:52:29 -0800 abbiehofmann alberthofmann culture drugs lsd meanie