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Bicycle Day
Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the
unprecedented colours and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes.
Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated,
opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in collared
fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux.
On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, the Swiss father of
psychedelic medicine, dropped lysergic acid diethylamide and went on a bike
ride, becoming the first human to ever trip on acid. The rest is psychedelic
history.
Hofmann had synthesized LSD in his lab as a medical
stimulant for the respiratory and circulatory system in 1938, but at the time
he didn\u2019t know what powers it held. Revisiting his discovery five years later,
he caught a glimpse of its effects when some of the drug was absorbed through
his fingertips, describing the experience as \u201cdream-like\u201d and a \u201cnot
unpleasant intoxicated-like condition.\u201d
Intrigued, three days later \u2014 on a day that would go down in
history as \u201cBicycle Day\u201d \u2014 he did what any responsible scientist would do:
Experiment on himself.
Taking a dose of 250 micrograms in his laboratory, thinking
it was an appropriate threshold dose (we know now that he overdid it; 200
micrograms is the standard), Hofmann turned on, tuned in, and dropped out for
the first time. Within an hour, his perception began to ebb and flow rapidly,
and he began to freak out, convinced that his neighbour was a witch and that he
was going insane. Hofmann wanted to go home.
Unfortunately, Hofmann had no access to a car because of
wartime restrictions, so he had to make the journey home by bicycle. The trip
was a stressful one \u2014 his vision wavered and he felt as though he were
motionless \u2014 but as soon as he reached his condition\u2019s climax, he came back
from a \u201cweird, unfamiliar world\u201d to reassuring everyday reality.
In his notes, he went on to describe the hallucinogenic trip
that would go on to inspire a countercultural revolution and, decades later, a
generation of scientists looking to harness LSD\u2019s powers to treat mental health
issues:
The stigma leftover from the 1960s remains hard to shake, but
LSD has slowly been undergoing a re-branding in recent years that is much more
in line with Hofmann\u2019s original vision: Using it as a treatment for psychiatric
ailments.
Just this month, scientists applied cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques
to find out what exactly LSD does to the human brain, in hopes that research on
the drug will regain credence in the scientific community that Hofmann himself
proudly represented
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