Acid is ready

"In his knowledgeable "little cultural history", Alexander Fromm traces the most important stages in how lysergic acid diethylamide was able to become rocket fuel for psychonauts through the carelessness of the Basel chemist Albert Hofmann. (Rolling Stone 01/2017). In April 1943 the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the mind-altering effect of LSD. Psychotherapists quickly recognized the substance's potential and used it to treat alcoholism and for accelerated psychoanalysis. The CIA even hoped to use it as a truth serum and made countless Americans familiar with LSD through nationwide testing. Especially poets, musicians and painters were stimulated by the stimulant, which increased their creativity. Through the hippies, "acid" became a youth and fashion drug - indeed, it shaped the Sixties as an era in its own right. The Be.