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Ken Kesey's Acid Quest

By WNYC Studios — 2018

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of Acid Test, Brooke speaks with Wolfe and writer River Donaghey about how acid shaped Kesey, spawned the book and de-normalized American conformity.

Read on www.wnycstudios.org

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"Apparently Useless": The Accidental Discovery of LSD

After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.

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Tom Shroder
2014
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5 Fast Facts You May Not Know About Albert Hofmann and LSD

Hofmann was tasked with producing new lysergic acid compounds that did not have side effects. At the same time, he wanted compounds which, based on their chemistry could have pharmacological properties.

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Barbara E. Bauer
2020
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Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His "Problem Child"

As the years accumulate behind him, Mr. Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.

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Craig S. Smith
2006
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What a Trip

Ken Kesey’s visions of a different world set the Sixties in motion.

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Joshua Fried
2002
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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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LSD. Good for Your Health? This Canadian Researcher Says It Just Might Be—If You Take Enough

Looking for a healthy trip? It turns out a massive dose of LSD might — and let’s really stress might — be just what the doctor ordered.

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Omar Mosleh
2020
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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris Is the First Scientist in Over 40 Years to Test LSD on Humans—And You're Next

The scientist talks to Laurence Phelan about fighting the establishment, battling preconceptions and breaking down egos.

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Laurence Phelan
2014
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For the First Time, Scientists Have Imaged the Brain on LSD

The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.

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Victoria Turk
2016
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The Coming of Age of LSD

It seems amazing that something so totally personal as ones level of consciousness could be considered an illegal act. But there is a turning of the tide both in policy and in scientific research, which has begun to recognise the value of these substances.

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Amanda Feilding
2016
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Interview with Albert Hofmann, the Man Who First Synthesized LSD

The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.

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High Times
2020
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