On Tuesday, December 1, 1992 at 11:33:06 AM UTC-8, Joshua Edward Barnes wrote:
In article <1992Nov30....@leland.Stanford.EDU>
to...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Thomas J. Monica) writes:
Ol' Albert was the inadvertant discoverer of LSD, for those who don't know. >He was working for Sandoz (or was it La Roche?) and happened to taste a >little of the stuff he made that day. Then tried to ride his bike home >along them Alpine roads after being MEGA-DOSED.
I've never seen anthing on his perspective of the experience.
He was working for Sandoz, synthesizing and studying a series of
compounds based on ergot. After making a batch of the 25th in the
series he reported feeling woozy and possibly had some low-level hallucinations, the result of accidentally ingesting some of the
stuff. A few days later he decided to try what he *thought* was a
*very* *low* dose -- about 250 mikes, I believe. Talk about cautious!
He went zooming off into the ozone, of course, and the rest is
history. A good account can be found in _Storming Heaven_, written
(I think) by Jay Stevens.
As I recall, he had a *classic* bad trip (perhaps the very first)
thinking he was going crazy and all the rest, but the next morning experienced a profound sense of well-being while walking in his
garden...
ODC: it *must* have been the roses :-)
Cheers,
Josh Barnes
bar...@zeno.ifa.hawaii.edu
Good topic.
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