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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on April 30, 2008, 08:10:42 AM
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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr-29-08 07:59 PM
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Albert Hoffman, Discoverer of LSD, dead at 102
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Source: Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II
4:39 PM PDT, April 29, 2008
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102.
Hofmann died this morning at his home in Basel of a heart attack, according to Rick Doblin, the head of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Assn. for Psychedelic Studies.
Al HofmannHofmann also identified and synthesized the active ingredients of peyote mushrooms and a Mexican psychoactive plant called ololiuqui and developed at least three related, non-psychoactive compounds that became widely used in medicine.
Those other feats would have been little remembered, however, had he not accidentally gotten a trace amount of an experimental compound called lysergic acid diethylamide on his fingertips and taken the world's first acid trip.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30a...
omInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr-29-08 08:12 PM
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6. I used to date Owsley Stanley's niece...
Remember "Purple Owsley"?
We had all we wanted. Made a living off it for quite some time.
God bless Dr. Hoffman.
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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr-29-08 07:59 PM
Original message
Albert Hoffman, Discoverer of LSD, dead at 102
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Source: Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II
4:39 PM PDT, April 29, 2008
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102.
Hofmann died this morning at his home in Basel of a heart attack, according to Rick Doblin, the head of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Assn. for Psychedelic Studies.
Al HofmannHofmann also identified and synthesized the active ingredients of peyote mushrooms and a Mexican psychoactive plant called ololiuqui and developed at least three related, non-psychoactive compounds that became widely used in medicine.
Those other feats would have been little remembered, however, had he not accidentally gotten a trace amount of an experimental compound called lysergic acid diethylamide on his fingertips and taken the world's first acid trip.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30a...
omInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr-29-08 08:12 PM
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6. I used to date Owsley Stanley's niece...
Remember "Purple Owsley"?
We had all we wanted. Made a living off it for quite some time.
God bless Dr. Hoffman.
He's so worldly :whatever:
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Remember Woodstock, well I dated Woodstock's son. We sold mud, overflowing toilets, and bad acid to make tons of money. :whatever:
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Another TiT acquaintance that cannot be contacted for verification of the accusations made by the yellowback f***.
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Augie Stanley (that's what we called him - Augie - he hadn't changed his name yet) and I go way back. He use to call me Pig (short for guinea pig) because I would volunteer to sample the first drop of every batch. His niece tried to seduce me once but I freak when I took off my pants and found out I was the Invisible Man. Good shit, man.
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So he admits to taking the brown acid. :-) Figures!
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Why couldnt TiT just take one long acid trip to the police station?
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Why couldnt TiT just take one long acid trip to the police station?
H5, but better, still--how come he couldn't take one long acid trip with him to the police station?
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-30-08 02:45 PM
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49. Every day. For the entire year of 1968.
Every day. I was bound and determined to pull it off.
This explains much.
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TiT is becoming more like Forrest Gump every day. He has met everyone, done everything, and has had his hand in the shaping of the future. And Like Forrest Gump, It's pure fiction. (Miskie goes off on a tangent...)Gump.. Fiction.. - One of my all time favorite MadTV bits...
Gump Fiction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dymb0SvHCnY)
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-30-08 02:45 PM
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49. Every day. For the entire year of 1968.
Every day. I was bound and determined to pull it off.
This explains much.
Wasn't 1968 when he was with the time traveling seal unit?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-30-08 06:24 PM
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1. Must've been quite a sight. I know some nomadic people.
A friend of mine grew up North of the Circle (Norway) in a family of nomadic reindeer hunters. I can only imagine how they might have reacted. These people still live in skin huts.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-30-08 06:24 PM
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1. Must've been quite a sight. I know some nomadic people.
A friend of mine grew up North of the Circle (Norway) in a family of nomadic reindeer hunters. I can only imagine how they might have reacted. These people still live in skin huts.
Remember, TiT was the one who convinced Edward VIII to abdicate and marry Wallis Simpson.
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TiT is becoming more like Forrest Gump every day. He has met everyone, done everything, and has had his hand in the shaping of the future. And Like Forrest Gump, It's pure fiction. (Miskie goes off on a tangent...)Gump.. Fiction.. - One of my all time favorite MadTV bits...
Gump Fiction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dymb0SvHCnY)
H5 for sharing the link! Funny stuff!
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-30-08 02:45 PM
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49. Every day. For the entire year of 1968.
Every day. I was bound and determined to pull it off.
This explains much.
Wasn't 1968 when he was with the time traveling seal unit?
Most certainly.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-30-08 06:24 PM
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1. Must've been quite a sight. I know some nomadic people.
A friend of mine grew up North of the Circle (Norway) in a family of nomadic reindeer hunters. I can only imagine how they might have reacted. These people still live in skin huts.
Now she's just a friend? Last time we heard she was the woman he was dating.