By Thomas Anderson, Rotem Petranker — 2018
We just ran the first ever pre-registered scientific study on the microdosing of psychedelics and found some very promising results.
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The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.
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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.
Believing that lysergic acid had potential use in neurology and psychiatry, he proceeded with animal experimentation and further human studies.
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After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.
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.
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.