GENEVA - The mind-altering drug LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, the father of what he calls his "problem child," LSD, is celebrating his centenary Wednesday in good health and planning to attend an international scientific meeting on the hallucinogenic, which inspired a generation of flower children, even as it worried their parents.
"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," Hofmann told Swiss television network SF DRS about his first experience with LSD. "I had wonderful visions. What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared.".......
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Father of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday
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