Albert Hofmann’s first LSD trip, 83 years ago today
Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally absorbing a trace amount through his skin at the Sandoz laboratory in Basel on April 16, 1943 — 83 years ago today. He was 37, studying ergot (a grain fungus) for its poten…
