Albert Hofmann
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"Albert Hofmann" was a Switzerland/Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to Chemical synthesis/synthesize, ingestion/ingest, and learn of the Psychedelic drug/psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann was also the first person to isolate, synthesize, and name the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child). In 2007 he shared first place, alongside Tim Berners-Lee, in a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses, published by The Telegraph newspaper.

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It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had the feeling that I saw the earth and the beauty of nature as it had been when it was created, at the first day of creation. It was a beautiful experience! I was reborn, seeing nature in quite a new light.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

I thought I would increase very cautiously the quantity of LSD in subsequent experiments to see if any of the dosages were active. It turned out that when I ingested this quarter of a milligram, I had taken a very strong, a very high dosage of a very, very active compound. I got into a strange state of consciousness.

Domestic demand is now driving growth.

Monetary policy could in the short run focus on absorbing some of the excess liquidity to reduce the risk of excessive credit growth.

Before LSD got onto the streets (in the 1960s), we were able to gather a lot of therapeutic experiences. The substance was used in the psychoanalysis of patients who couldn't be talked to.

The debt has been formed mainly because of mismatches for years between expenditure assignments and revenues of local governments.

We expect most of the growth will come from the domestic side as has already happened over the last quarter of 2005.

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

What began as a miracle substance subsequently became a youth cult drug, and thus a political danger for America. The decision of the U.S. to ban LSD was purely political. Every doctor has controlled access to heroin, morphine and even strychnine. But for LSD there's a total prohibition.

This is a wonderful birthday party we are having. One could say it is a consciousness-expanding experience without LSD.