Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory.
Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested lysergic acid diethylamide before bicycling ...
But after LSD spread into the larger culture, the U.S. government imposed strict restrictions on it (Dyck, 2008). By 1966, it became very difficult for researchers to conduct expe ...