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jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 1749
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 3:40 am:   Edit Post

Albert Hoffman, The inventor of LSD has died today aged 102. Full details in the new york times
Imagine where the Grateful dead might have ended up without his products.

Graeme

(Message edited by jacko on April 30, 2008)
terryc
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Post Number: 488
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 3:42 am:   Edit Post

Wonder if the drug accounted for his longevity??
davehouck
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Post Number: 6501
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 8:22 am:   Edit Post

Nice obit piece by the Times. Thanks for the link!
lbpesq
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Post Number: 3063
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 11:18 am:   Edit Post

Just to be accurate, the man's name was Albert Hofmann. It's amazing, looking back from the perspective of today, how a bicycle ride on April 19, 1943, begat the 60's as much as anything else did.

I am lucky to own a piece of blotter art commemorating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Hofmann's discovery of the psychoactive properties of LSD (five year after he first synthesized the substance) signed by the great chemist himself. I'll try to get a good pic and post it here tonight or tomorrow.

Bill, tgo
flaxattack
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Post Number: 1942
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 11:43 am:   Edit Post

can you eat the blotter?
mike1762
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Username: mike1762

Post Number: 46
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 6:29 pm:   Edit Post

He should be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I am a true admirer of his work.
jerryme
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Username: jerryme

Post Number: 71
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 6:33 pm:   Edit Post

He sure did change my life.... Or least my outlook on it. Colin
paulman
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Username: paulman

Post Number: 294
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 6:40 am:   Edit Post

Now thats what I call a loooong, strange, trip!

What direction would our reality would have gone if not for that little brush with destiny? A grateful man, I am. Goodbye Albert.

I still have some Felix the Cat taped to my first guitar :-) Ahh, Rosemont Horizon memories!
edwin
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Username: edwin

Post Number: 333
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, May 02, 2008 - 11:50 pm:   Edit Post

While there are rumours that he thought that LSD could help longevity, he attributed his age to two raw eggs every morning with his muesli. I also read that he did take small amounts throughout his life, the last being within the last few years.

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Edwin

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