Pubdate: Wed, 11 Jan 2006
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006 The Province
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LSD INVENTOR TURNS 100

LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss
chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human
guinea pig is celebrating his centenary today, in good health and with
plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic.

"I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said in Geneva, recalling
his first accidental consumption of the drug.

"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he said. "What
I was thinking appeared in colours and in pictures. It lasted for a
couple of hours and then it disappeared."

For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended
his invention.

"I produced the substance as a medicine," he said. "It's not my fault
if people abused it." 
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