{"id":6217,"date":"2009-10-17T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/10\/got-acid-tripping-out-the-return-of-hofmann%e2%80%99s-problem-child-lsd-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T00:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T07:06:55","slug":"got-acid-tripping-out-the-return-of-hofmann%e2%80%99s-problem-child-lsd-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/10\/got-acid-tripping-out-the-return-of-hofmann%e2%80%99s-problem-child-lsd-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Acid? Tripping Out: The Return of Hofmann\u2019s Problem Child, LSD | Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/10\/return-of-a-problem-child_1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" alt=\"return-of-a-problem-child_1.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2009\/10\/tripping-out-the-return-of-lsd\/\">\n<p>Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, lambasted the countercultural movement for marginalizing a chemical that he asserted had potential benefits as an invaluable supplement to psychotherapy and spiritual practices such as meditation. \u201cThis joy at having fathered LSD was tarnished after more than ten years of uninterrupted scientific research and medicinal use when LSD was swept up in the huge wave of an inebriant mania that began to spread over the Western world, above all the United States, at the end of the 1950s,\u201d Hofmann groused in his 1979 memoir LSD: My Problem Child.<\/p>\n<p>For just that reason, Hofmann was jubilant in the months before his death last year, at the age of 102, when he learned that the first scientific research on LSD in decades was just beginning in his native Switzerland. \u201cHe was very happy that, as he said, \u2018a long wish finally became true,\u2019 \u201d remarks Peter Gasser, the physician leading the clinical trial. \u201cHe said that the substance must be in the hands of medical doctors again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary study picks up where investigators left off. It explores the possible therapeutic effects of the drug on the intense anxiety experienced by patients with life-threatening disease, such as cancer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2009\/10\/tripping-out-the-return-of-lsd\/\" ><cite>Got Acid? Tripping Out: The Return of Hofmann\u2019s Problem Child, LSD | Disinformation<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis joy at having fathered LSD was tarnished after more than ten years of uninterrupted scientific research and medicinal use when LSD was swept up in the huge wave of an inebriant mania that began to spread over the Western world, above all the United States, at the end of the 1950s,\u201d Hofmann groused in his 1979 memoir LSD: My Problem Child.    For just that reason, Hofmann was jubilant in the months before his death last year, at the age of 102, when he learned that the first scientific research on LSD in decades was just beginning in his native Switzerland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}