Bicycle Day is April 19 – The day when Albert Hofmann has discovered LSD

On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist for Sandoz, in Basel, Switzerland, has discovered LSD, where he experienced all the heavenly and hellish effects of lysergic acid diethylamide. Bicycle Day celebrates Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann's discovery of lysergic acid...

How LSD Can Change Our Understanding of Consciousness

In 1967, psychologist and psychedelics proponent Timothy Leary told a crowd in Golden Gate Park to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” It was a turning point in how the public viewed psychedelics and, in particular, how lysergic acid...

LSD blotter art – How illegal drug distribution turned into art

Can illegal drug distribution turn into an artform? Can collecting art get you in jail? And how did a system for labeling illegal substances turned into a way of preserving psychedelic culture’s history and a thriving collector’s’ market? And...

REBIRTH: The Psychedelic Movement Comes Of Age

In the End I was cast out of the alchemists' den, a lost mystic exile from the beats, wandering the naked streets of Basel at dawn and transmitting a lovely fix. I was high on acid, a green tab...

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