Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)

• The Albert Hofmann Foundation

  The remarkable psychic properties of LSD, which induces dramatic changes in consciousness at microscopic doses, have inspired millions of people through life-changing transcendent experiences. The intense interest in psychedelic drug research following the discovery of LSD revolutionized the scientific study of the human mind and produced a wealth of new data. During the 17 years of research before it was severely restricted in the late Sixties, over 3,000 scientific and popular articles were published worldwide. Few other chemicals have sparked a comparable level of research activity. The resulting exploration of possibilities within the human mind/body helped fuel the human potential movement in the Sixties, a movement reflected worldwide in new perspectives in business, medicine, ecology, the arts, and politics.

  So why was LSD placed in Schedule I and possession of LSD declared illegal, punishable by years in prison? The criteria for a schedule I drug are:

  A: Drug has no current accepted medical use.
  B: Drug has a high potential for abuse.

  By these criteria nicotine should be a schedule I drug. Nicotine has no medical use and its long-term use often is fatal. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year of tobacco-related diseases. It is "abused" by millions of nicotine addicts as an excuse to take 10-20 minutes off work half-a-dozen times a day. (What's "abuse" anyway?) So why is nicotine legal and LSD illegal? Could it be that LSD reveals something that those in positions of wealth and power don't want us to know? Nicotine is a poison which teaches you nothing (except what it is like to be an addict). LSD will show you how things really are. That's why it is illegal.

  

• The Discovery of LSD

• The Original Captain Trips
  Captain Alfred Hubbard (photo at right) was the first LSD evangelist.

• Todd Brendan Fahey: The Original Captain Trips — Who Was 'Captain' Al Hubbard?

• Albert Hofmann: LSD, My Problem Child    Also here.

• Deadheads Behind Bars

• Interview: The Bear — Owsley: Acid Artist of the Sixties

• ACID DREAMS: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

  

• David McCandless: Dr Albert Hofmann: The father of LSD
  "As he celebrates his 100th birthday, David McCandless hears about the trip of his lifetime."

• Acid Again  Jeff Stratton's article about psychedelic researcher Thomas Lyttle

• [MIND CONTROL] PROGRAMMING WITH LSD-25

• Ron Jacobs: Eros and the Grateful Dead

  

• The Grateful Dead

• http://www.timothyleary.us/

• Timothy Leary image gallery and Timothy Leary digital cenotaph

• Elizabeth Gips lived a life graced by God, LSD

• LSD at www.drugwar.com

• Stanislav Grof, M.D.: History of LSD Therapy

• Meditation and Drug-Induced Hallucinations
  Research on mechanisms of hallucinations induced by hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline and psilocybin) and meditation.

• LSD Information (courtesy of Head Magazine)

• John Marks: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Chapter 4: LSD

• Gary Fisher: Treatment of Childhood Schizophrenia Utilizing LSD and Psilocybin

  "Now that the FDA has permitted research with LSD and psilocybin to resume, we feel it is important to share examples of a remarkable experiment, the results of which were not sufficiently taken into account because this line of research was prematurely halted in the mid-sixties due to political considerations. Childhood schizophrenia is still a difficult problem to treat and causes much suffering. It is a terrible shame that research done 35 years ago is still the last word on the use of psychedelics to treat these conditions." — Editor, MAPS Newsletter

  
• The Virtual Acid Trip — psychedelic web art,
  such as this image of a self-transforming machine-elf:

• LSD at Lycaeum.

• Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics, including:
  • LSD and Ego Death
  • LSD-25 Synthesis from "Psychedelic Guide to the Preparation of the Eucharist" (mirrored on this site).

• John Hanna: Halperngate (724 KB PDF file)
  A report on Harvard researcher John Halpern's cooperation with the DEA in the Apperson/Pickard case.

• The William Leonard Pickard Website

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