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My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts
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Well I am surprised, but in 7 years I have made over 12,000 posts here at this site.
So for my 12,001 post I give you Albert Hofmann from a 1999 image in Amsterdam and here he is like melting on his last acid trip in the 1960s or so

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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Yup! He just celebrated his 100th birthday with a big bash and conference.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: mjshroomer]
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That was his first and last trip back when he did trip that one time.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: mjshroomer]
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He has said that he has certainly tripped plenty of times since the 60's.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
#5409209 - 03/16/06 04:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sorry, but Albert triped numerous times on acid and several times on mushrooms.
His own words are posted around the internet and in his bio translated by Ott, LSD, My Problem Child.
In fact he recently wrote a letter to a major magazine for to correct some misinformation about him. I will go and find that letter and come back here and post it here.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Koala Koolio]
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Pretty cool image.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: mjshroomer]
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Weird pic, MJ. What you said was a little confusing, though. You're saying that Hofmann's last trip was in the 60's, right?
Congrats on the 12,000 posts in 7 years. You are definitely not a post whore. 
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: mjshroomer]
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Guess who's back?
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NOTE: The NYTimes article posted below inaccurately reported that Albert was of the opinion that, "LSD could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and others "a crime." The following letter to the editor, signed by Albert and posted below, was submitted to the NYTimes but has not as yet been printed.
Dear Editor,
Craig Smith's otherwise gracious article on the occasion of Dr. Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday ended with a misrepresentation of Dr. Hofmann's views concerning Timothy Leary and the popularization of LSD.
We are writing from the 100th conference in Basel, Switzerland, which treats this complex problem in great detail. Suffice it to say that while Dr. Hofmann has for a long time expressed his disagreement with Dr. Leary's popularizing of psychedelic drugs, he most definitely does not think it was a "crime" as your article asserts.
In fact Dr. Hofmann has been a staunch critic of US drug policy that criminalizes LSD use and results in the deplorable imprisonment of otherwise law abiding citizens, and impedes research into the marvelous properties of these drugs.
We regret the error in the New York Times which has now been reprinted in journals throughout the world.
Sincerely,
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Robert Forte Albert Hofmann Ralph Metzner Alexander Shulgin
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Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'
January 7, 2006 The New York Times The Saturday Profile
By CRAIG SMITH BURG, Switzerland
"LSD spoke to me. He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Dont give me to the pharmacologist.'" - ALBERT HOFMANN ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the windowpane.
Mr. Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousnesses around the world. 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.
"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature," he said, listing to the right in a green armchair that looked out over frost-dusted fields and snow-laced trees. A glass pitcher held a bouquet of roses on the coffee table before him. "In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature." And, yes, he said, LSD, which he calls his "problem child," could help reconnect people to the universe.
Rounding a century, Mr. Hofmann is physically reduced but mentally clear. He is prone to digressions, ambling with pleasure through memories of his boyhood, but his bright eyes flash with the recollection of a mystical experience he had on a forest path more than 90 years ago in the hills above Baden, Switzerland. The experience left him longing for a similar glimpse of what he calls "a miraculous, powerful, unfathomable reality."
"I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature," he said, laying a slightly gnarled finger alongside his nose, his longish white hair swept back from his temples and the crown of his head. He said any natural scientist who was not a mystic was not a real natural scientist. "Outside is pure energy and colorless substance," he said. "All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings."
He became particularly fascinated by the mechanisms through which plants turn sunlight into the building blocks for our own bodies. "Everything comes from the sun via the plant kingdom," he said.
MR. HOFMANN studied chemistry and took a job with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz Laboratories, because it had started a program to identify and synthesize the active compounds of medically important plants. He soon began work on the poisonous ergot fungus that grows in grains of rye. Midwives had used it for centuries to precipitate childbirths, but chemists had never succeeded in isolating the chemical that produced the pharmacological effect. Finally, chemists in the United States identified the active component as lysergic acid, and Mr. Hofmann began combining other molecules with the unstable chemical in search of pharmacologically useful compounds.
His work on ergot produced several important drugs, including a compound still in use to prevent hemorrhaging after childbirth. But it was the 25th compound that he synthesized, lysergic acid diethylamide, that was to have the greatest impact. When he first created it in 1938, the drug yielded no significant pharmacological results. But when his work on ergot was completed, he decided to go back to LSD-25, hoping that improved tests could detect the stimulating effect on the body's circulatory system that he had expected from it. It was as he was synthesizing the drug on a Friday afternoon in April 1943 that he first experienced the altered state of consciousness for which it became famous. "Immediately, I recognized it as the same experience I had had as a child," he said. "I didn't know what caused it, but I knew that it was important." When he returned to his lab the next Monday, he tried to identify the source of his experience, believing first that it had come from the fumes of a chloroform-like solvent he had been using. Inhaling the fumes produced no effect, though, and he realized he must have somehow ingested a trace of LSD. "LSD spoke to me," Mr. Hofmann said with an amused, animated smile. "He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.' "
HE experimented with the drug, taking a dose so small that even the most active toxin known at that time would have had little or no effect. The result with LSD, however, was a powerful experience, during which he rode his bicycle home, accompanied by an assistant. That day, April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as "bicycle day."
Mr. Hofmann participated in tests in a Sandoz laboratory, but found the experience frightening and realized that the drug should be used only under carefully controlled circumstances. In 1951, he wrote to the German novelist Ernst Junger, who had experimented with mescaline, and proposed that they take LSD together. They each took 0.05 milligrams of pure LSD at Mr. Hofmann's home accompanied by roses, music by Mozart and burning Japanese incense. "That was the first planned psychedelic test," Mr. Hofmann said.
He took the drug dozens of times after that, he said, and once experienced what he called a "horror trip" when he was tired and Mr. Junger gave him amphetamines first. But his hallucinogenic days are long behind him.
"I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore," Mr. Hofmann said. "Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley," who asked his wife for an injection of LSD to help him through the final painful throes of his fatal throat cancer.
But Mr. Hofmann calls LSD "medicine for the soul" and is frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. "It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis," he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960's and then demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He said LSD could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and others "a crime."
"It should be a controlled substance with the same status as morphine," he said.
Mr. Hofmann lives with his wife in the house they built 38 years ago. He raised four children and watched one son struggle with alcoholism before dying at 53. He has eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. As far as he knows, no one in his family besides his wife has tried LSD.
Mr. Hofmann rose, slightly stooped and now barely reaching five feet, and walked through his house with his arm-support cane. When asked if the drug had deepened his understanding of death, he appeared mildly startled and said no. "I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all," he said.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Yeah, I always like to think that. I'm sure that if there is a next Hofmann, he will at least be familiar with this site.

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I don't think so... I think he just phrased it in a strange way.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Ferris said: Does anyone know what the lsd he was synthesizing was SUPPOSED to be for? Was he TRYING to create a hallucanegetic drug?
I think it was to help with child birth, or bleeding from the birth or something.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Actually it might work, though I don't think there were any studies. Egrot(What LSD is synthesized from) was commonly known by housewives to help with child birth.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Not really... ergolines have funny circulatory constricting properties. It's not like he randomly chose the strangest chemical he could. Sandoz created an entire series, dozens of ergolines at the very least. Preventing uterine blood loss was surely one of the original goals. Ergotamine Tartrate is prescribed in some cases for chronic migraines.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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Yes I think but mostly because of delirium from a overdose.
Try out LSA is you want to experiment with Ergot Alkaloids
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
#5409342 - 03/16/06 05:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ask around??
Just type in HBWR seeds into google and buy some.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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lol dude your clueless ha ha its all good though!
Mj thanks for the clarification!
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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I'm pretty sure that Ergotamine Tartrate is not psychoactive.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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He's not making fun of you. Everyone knows more than some and less than others about these things. Don't worry about it. Read more about LSA here if you want, though.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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No Ferris,
here is a little info on ergot From my forth-coming book "Tales of the Shroom" due out in 2008.
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Ergot is a fungus that grows on rotted rye-grains and happens to be a small microscopic purple mushroom growing on the sclerotum of a fungal grain of rye. Not wheat.
If consumed as is, it is the known cause of ergotism or what is commonly referred to as St. Anthony's Fire.
The name of St. Anthony came from a priest who lived in the 2nd century and had an affinity with animals.
St. Anthony was also known as a priest who carried Bell, Book and Candles. Those later three items have always been associated as witches? familiars.
From the 14th to the 17th century, villages and towns in Western Europe had bakeries that sold rye breads that were infected and contaminated with ergot and thus caused mass ergotism in their villages. Anywhere up to ten thousand people were reported to have dies during some of these ergotism outbreaks during this period in history.
The disease hardly hit England at all because the English consumed wheat breads rather than a lot of rye.
There were two forms of ergotism, gangrenous and convulsive. In the gangrenous forms, limbs were known to rot and fall off and the in the Convulsive forms, hallucinations were often reported as some of the symptoms of the toxicity of this deadly fungus.
It did not affect women and children as much as it did others.
The churches set up to help the afflicted called the disease St. Anthony?s Fire because of the sensation that your body was burning up and for the priest who helped others less fortunate than he.
Similar fire and burning sensations were also associated with small pox, when that latter disease hit the Hawaiian Islands and the Hawaiians would run into the ocean to cool off and then die from pneumonia.
In the early and mid 17th and 18th centuries, the French learned what was causing the ergotism and were able to stop it before it spread in the many bakery products sold in Europe at the time.
About the same period, midwives in both America and Europe learned that in a very minute amount that certain chemicals found in the ergot fungus stopped post partum hemorrhaging during childbirth.
It is a known fact that many mothers died during this period in history because midwives did not know how to stop the bleeding after childbirth.
Then in the middle to late 1930's Dr. Albert Hofmann accidentally found that he had created LSD. It was his 25th experiment on the lysergic acid amides he was working with while creating obstetric medicines.
Ergot also can cause aborts in animals with late or difficult deliveries and the same in humans who are late for their periods.
That is why zoo pamphlets sometimes have warnings about asking visitors to their zoos not to feed the animals LSD and/or other drugs. This was a problem in the 1970's and 1980s.
I actually met a person in Oregon years ago who did that very thing and because of his stupidity his best friend was eaten by the lions at the Portland, Oregon Zoo.
He and a friend thought it was cool to feed the lions LSD laced meat. They were fooling around at the lions den in the middle of the night when his friend was teasing the lions and fell to the bottom of the den. Or course the lions chewed his ass completely rendering him in to a meaty bony piece of human pulp.
Then my friend went home and got his dad's shotgun and came back and killed three or four lions. Cannot remember how many. It made the newspapers and that is where I first read about it years before I met him at Laurelhurst Park in SE Portland.
A judge committed him to Damash (that is where One flew over the Cuckoos Nest was filmed at and about.
Years later in Florida, I applied for a job at the Jacksonville Zoo. Although I did not get the job, I did get a free pamphlet from the zoo that actually warned people about not feeding animals LSD because it would cause them to abort. I still have that pamphlet and someday i will post the paragraph about that.
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Re: My 12,001 post at the Shroomery.: Albert Hofmann Melts [Re: Ferris]
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NO, that bhook willbe main stream publication./
I have self-published m for more than 30 years. nine books and four cd-roms.
have a shroomy day,
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