Archive for April, 2008

Death of a Modern Pandora

April 30, 2008

(The man who first isolated and extracted the drug LSD dies at age 102)

It’s a mistake to say that Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann “invented” LSD, just as it would be a contradiction of logic to say Sir Isaac Newton “invented” gravity. LSD, lysergic acid diethyl amide, has been with us at least as long as [...]