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LSD: Fifty Odd Years
Lysergic acid diethylamide, also know
as LSD, was first synthesized from the ergot fungus in
1938. It wasn't until 1943, however, that one of its
inventors at Sandoz Research Laboratories in Switzerland
discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD. The
scientist reported experiencing "...a not unpleasant
state of drunkenness which was characterized by an
extremely stimulating fantasy."
Thus began what is now over a half a
century of popular psychic exploration. My LSD
commemorative stamps look a lot like the trippy
Fulbright Scholarship stamps issued by the Postal
Orifice a couple of years ago. Wasn't that pillar of
propriety, President Clinton, a Fulbright Scholar? Maybe
he didn't swallow. We can assume Hilary
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