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Best known as the first person to synthesize, ingest, and discover the psychedelic effects of lsd, albert hofmann was more than just a chemist. In 1996, bob wallace started mind books, a bookstore that offered publications about psychoactive plants and compounds, which eventually went out of business. Hofmann s chemical creations also include chemicals used every day in maternity and geriatric wards the world over. It would be another 24 years until jimi hendrix would release are you experienced, but albert hofmann became the first person in history who could conceivably answer in the affirmative to that when he discovered lsds hallucinogenic effects after accidentally dosing himself on april 16, 1943. Albert hofmann, the biochemical researcher credited with discovering lsd in switzerland in 1943 he described it as his problem child celebrated his 100th birthday in.
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