Bicycle Day is just around the corner, but it’s not what you think. This isn’t a holiday honouring your favourite two-wheeled, environmentally friend vehicle – it’s about the day chemist Albert Hoffman first discovered the psychedelic effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or LSD-25.
Today we’re talking the chemical history of LSD, so get ready to turn on, tune in, but don’t drop out … you might just learn something.
Originally published by Cosmos as Bicycle Day: The discovery of LSD
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