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 Tuesday ...

Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was not trying to develop a mind-altering drug when he synthesized D-lysergic acid diethylamide-25 — better known as LSD — at the Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland ...

NEW YORK — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious “problem child,” died Tuesday. He was 102. Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home ...

Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was not trying to develop a mind-altering drug when he synthesized D-lysergic acid diethylamide-25 — better known as LSD — at the Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland ...

Can one fault a documentary about acid for not being properly balanced? Either way, Swiss scribe-helmer Martin Witz’s “The Substance — Albert Hofmann’s LSD” presents a lopsided and somewhat sedate ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Bicycle Day falls on 420 eve each year on April 19 to commemorate the pivotal 1943 discovery of the effects of the most potent hallucinogen known to humankind—lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The ...

On Monday, April 19, the Brattleboro arts organization Epsilon Spires will begin a two-week virtual screening of the film “The Substance: Albert Hofmann’s LSD” in honor of the chemist’s first ...

The Huffington Post published a previously-unseen letter from LSD creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs, who has in the past praised LSD’s influence on his creative ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD, died at his home near Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday. Hofmann synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) in 1938 and five years later became ...

GENEVA — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann ...

Can one fault a documentary about acid for not being properly balanced? Either way, Swiss scribe-helmer Martin Witz’s “The Substance — Albert Hofmann’s LSD” presents a lopsided and somewhat sedate ...