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The Prince of Possibility

By Robert Stone — 2004

In 1964, Ken Kesey was working in a cabin in La Honda Creek, south of San Francisco. He and his wife, Faye, had moved there in 1963, after their house on Perry Lane, in Menlo Park, was torn down by developers. Perry Lane had a bohemian tradition that Kesey had advanced. There were stoned poetry readings and lots of drugs, including LSD.

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Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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Do You Know the History of Acid or LSD?

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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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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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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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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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