Eighty-two years ago, a weird and wonderful bicycle ride changed culture forever (video)
On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist working at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, swallowed 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and had the first intentional acid trip in history.
Hofmann had first synthesized the compound five years earlier while exploring whether ergot—a fungus th…
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