[Infowarrior] - Albert Hoffman, LSD's 'dad' dies at a mind-blowing 102

[Richard Forno]

Albert Hoffman, LSD's 'dad' dies at a mind-blowing 102

The Associated Press

Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 4:00 AM

Albert Hoffman, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical
discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday.

He was 102.

Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel, Switzerland, according
to Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies, in a statement posted on the association's Web site.

Hofmann's hallucinogen inspired - and arguably corrupted - millions in the
1960s hippie generation. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s,
Hofmann defended his invention.

"I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people
abused it," he once said.

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