David Fiedler: Infobahn Warrior » Hofmann http://DavidFiedler.com The main place to keep up with me (if you can :-) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:15:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Albert Hofmann Takes His Last Trip http://DavidFiedler.com/2008/04/albert-hofmann-takes-his-last-trip/ http://DavidFiedler.com/2008/04/albert-hofmann-takes-his-last-trip/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:40:00 +0000 David http://davidfiedler.com/?p=49 Fresh from revelations that New York City, under the leadership of admitted pot smoker Mayor Bloomberg, is now the marijuana arrest capital of the world, this morning’s news is a downer indeed. Albert Hofmann, the father/inventor/synthesizer of LSD, has died at the age of 102.

So much for those who are against “drugs” like LSD and marijuana on a health basis. Hofmann himself took hundreds of LSD trips, and stayed quite mentally and professionally active to the very end.

He once upbraided Timothy Leary for popularizing LSD to the point where it became, to many, a recreational drug. Hofmann felt it should be approached seriously as a spiritual aid for getting closer to nature, an outlook that most experienced users of hallucinogens seem to share.

He is already greatly missed by many.

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