[Peace-discussion] {sent to wrong Group: Re:levant GPUS-PAX}Albert Hoffman, Swiss Chemist dies@102 ... * kat * Woman WORKING FOR GOOD/PEACE!
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Nearly 100, LSD's Father
Ponders His Problem Child CRAIG S. SMITH / New York Times 7jan2006 [See 23jan2006 correction by NYT below]
(FROM BELOW. . . Sent to wrong Group, by accident) :::
" the Reason to to Send to Discussion was the Extreme Impact
that this ONE MAN (emphasize not "shout") could have On Our LifeTime
and Society!!! . . .
and toward Peace and Higher Awareness "
BURG, Switzerland — 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." [See 23jan2006 correction by NYT below]
"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.
www.hofmann.org
source: 8jan2006
Correction:
January 23, 2006, Monday Because of a translator's error, the Saturday Profile on Jan. 7 about Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, attributed an erroneous quotation to him regarding the actions of Timothy Leary, who distributed LSD during the 1960's youth movement. While Mr. Hofmann said he disagreed with Mr. Leary's popularization of psychedelic drugs, he did not call the distribution of LSD by Mr. Leary and others ''a crime.''
source: 28jan2008 (thanks to J.S.)
Mindfully.org note:
The real crime back then was — and still is — drug [opium] trafficking by the U.S. Government. Given the state of the U.S. economy as a result of what's called the subprime loan debacle, if drug trafficking were truly halted, the economy would be completely dead.
Alan Ginsberg did a marvelous job of researching and writing of C.I.A. involvement in his popular song, the "CIA Dope Calypso," [Lyrics and link to MP3 file] based on a lot of research I did in '71. About it, Ginsberg said, "I'd gotten into the Time magazine morgue and read informal dispatches talking about illegal CIA dope dealings. then went down to Washington to the Institute for Policy Studies and spent several weeks doing research on CIA involvement in dope trafficking from Indochina. starting with Meo tribesman at our air base at Long Cheng, which was a CIA secret. I interviewed veterans, congressional investigative-committee aides, the head of CIA even, etc. Results contributed to The Politics Of Heroin (Alfred McCoy, 1971, reprinted by Lawrence Hill Books, Brooklyn, 1991). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
William & Lynn McLean <blueberrypeacefarm@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, (please!!!)
meant to send to "disscussion">>>>>>>>>>>>>>
this one should have gone on Discussion ~ ~ ~ only!
sorry /// an accident.
We did mean to send the one about kat as
it was relevant and timely
(and not "just a forward"
~ & we would try to be discreet/"thoughtful"/considerate).
Again, Our Apology and BTW,
the Reason to to Send to Discussion was the Extreme Impact
that this ONE MAN (emphasize not "shout") could have On Our LifeTime
and Society!!! . . . and toward Peace and Higher Awareness
.................& Peace/GPAX "relevant" . . . but still meant it for "discussion".
peace
Lovin You
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
On 5/10/08, Elena Everett <greentararaider@yahoo.com> wrote: William and Lynn,
Could you please keep your GPAX posts to GPAX related stuff... in the past we've done a better job asking folk not to send forwards to the list, unless they're specifically related to Green Party member's peace work or proposed GPAX work...
Obviously this committee is now in disfunction, but it's probably generally helpful to remember that everyone on this list is here as a working committee delegate. For me, knowing that folks will post items relevant to peace action work/discussion makes me at least glance through the emails when I can... but when I think I have to wade through forwards and completely unrelated stuff, my finger moves to the delete key with more speed.
Much thanks,
Elena
North Carolina
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Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on Final Trip He was the first person to experience an acid trip--for both good and bad By David Biello
ALBERT HOFMANN: Invented LSD as the 25th variation of a compound derived from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye.
©PHILIP H. BAILEY
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, died yesterday at the age of 102, just 10 days after the 55th anniversary of his notorious bicycle trip while tripping on "acid". Hofmann, who suffered a heart attack at home in Basel, Switzerland, was the first person to synthesize lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, and the first human known to experience its mind-bending effects.
The drug was the 25th he created from the basic chemical ingredients of ergot, a fungus that forms on rye, in his search for treatments for circulation and respiratory problems. He reports in his 1979 autobiography LSD, My Problem Child, that he became restless and dizzy when he accidentally ingested the compound while making it—and "perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors" for about two hours.
The very next day (April 19, 1943), he swallowed 0.25 milligram of the acid to confirm that it had caused his odd symptoms. Overcome by dizziness and anxiety, he asked an assistant to bicycle him home; once there, he writes that he was overcome by feelings that he might die (prompting a later call to his physician), along with delusions that included perceiving a kindly neighbor transformed into a malevolent witch.
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, his employer at the time, tried to promote LSD as a drug to treat psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia under the trade name Delysid by sending samples to psychiatrists—and the compound was briefly used as the treatment du jour in conjunction with psychoanalysis.
But acid swiftly found its way into wider use among artists, writers (such as Brave New World's Aldous Huxley), actors (including established movie stars like Cary Grant), and rebellious teens in the 1950s and 1960s. In fact, it became so popular as a way to "tune in, turn on and drop out" that in 1966 New York State and California made it a crime to possess it; the U.S. government followed suit in 1970.
Hofmann also manufactured a wide range of medical drugs from ergot, including methergine (which is still used to halt bleeding after birth) and hydergine (which improves circulation). In the psychedelic realm, he was also the first to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms (Psilocybe mexicana).
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<H2 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" align=center>Nearly 100, LSD's Father<BR>Ponders His Problem Child</H2> <H4 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" align=center>CRAIG S. SMITH / New York Times 7jan2006</H4> <div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" align=center><FONT face=Verdana size=2>[<STRONG><U><FONT color=#ff0000>See 23jan2006 correction by NYT </FONT></U></STRONG><A href="http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.htm#1"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>below</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></A>]</FONT></div> <div> </div> <div><A href="http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.jpg" target=_top><IMG height=86 src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:P-EUUOpUvll-vM:http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.jpg" width=56></A>(FROM BELOW. . . Sent to wrong Group, by accident) ::: </div> <div>" <STRONG><FONT size=3>the Reason to to Send to Discussion was<FONT color=#330099> <U>the Extreme Impact</U></FONT>
</FONT></STRONG></div> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>that this ONE MAN (emphasize not "shout") could have On Our LifeTime </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>and Society!!! . . . </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>and toward Peace and Higher Awareness </FONT></STRONG>"</DIV> <div> </div> <div>BURG, Switzerland — 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.</div> <div>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.</div> <div>"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.</div> <div>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."</div> <div>"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."</div> <div>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.</div> <div>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.</div> <div>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."</div> <div>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.' "</div> <div>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."</div> <div>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.</div> <div>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.</div> <div>"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.</div> <div>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. <STRIKE>He said LSD could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and others "a crime</STRIKE>." <FONT face=Verdana
size=2>[<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99">See 23jan2006 correction by NYT <B><A href="http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.htm#1">below</A></B></SPAN>]</FONT></div> <div>"It should be a controlled substance with the same status as morphine," he said.</div> <div>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.</div> <div>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.</div> <UL> <LI><A href="http://www.hofmann.org/">www.hofmann.org</A>
</LI></UL> <BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <div><I><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html">source</A>: 8jan2006</I></div></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <div><B><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><A name=1></A></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99">Correction:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><BR></SPAN>January 23, 2006, Monday Because of a translator's error, the Saturday Profile on Jan. 7 about Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, attributed an erroneous quotation to him regarding the actions of Timothy Leary, who distributed LSD during the 1960's youth movement. <STRONG>While Mr. Hofmann said he disagreed with Mr. Leary's popularization of psychedelic drugs, he did not call the distribution of LSD by Mr. Leary and others ''a crime.''</STRONG></div> <BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <div><I><A
href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E3DB153FF934A35752C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print">source</A>: 28jan2008 (thanks to J.S.)</I></div></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><B><I>Mindfully.org note</I>:</B><BR><BR><STRONG>The <U>real</U> crime back then was — <I>and still is</I> — drug [opium] trafficking by the U.S. Government. Given the state of the U.S. economy as a result of what's called the subprime loan debacle, if drug trafficking were truly halted, the economy would be completely dead. <BR></STRONG><BR>Alan Ginsberg did a marvelous job of researching and writing of C.I.A. involvement in his popular song, the "<B>CIA Dope Calypso</B>," <STRONG>[</STRONG><A href="http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/CIA-Dope-GinsbergJan72.htm"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99"><I><STRONG>Lyrics and link to MP3 file</STRONG></I></SPAN></A><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:
#ffff99"><STRONG>]</STRONG> </SPAN>based on a lot of research I did in '71. About it, Ginsberg said, "I'd gotten into the <I>Time </I>magazine morgue and read informal dispatches talking about illegal CIA dope dealings. then went down to Washington to the Institute for Policy Studies and spent several weeks doing research on CIA involvement in dope trafficking from Indochina. starting with Meo tribesman at our air base at Long Cheng, which was a CIA secret. I interviewed veterans, congressional investigative-committee aides, the head of CIA even, etc. Results contributed to<I> The Politics Of Heroin</I> (Alfred McCoy, 1971, reprinted by Lawrence Hill Books, Brooklyn, 1991). <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg</A> </FONT><BR><BR><B><I>William & Lynn McLean <blueberrypeacefarm@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff
2px solid"> <DIV>Sorry, (please!!!)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>meant to send to "disscussion">>>>>>>>>>>>>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> this one should have gone on Discussion ~ ~ ~ only! </DIV> <DIV>sorry /// an accident. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We did mean to send the one about kat as </DIV> <DIV>it was relevant and timely </DIV> <DIV>(and not "just a forward" </DIV> <DIV>~ & we would try to be discreet/"thoughtful"/considerate).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Again, Our Apology and BTW, </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>the Reason to to Send to Discussion was<FONT color=#330099> <U>the Extreme Impact</U></FONT> </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>that this ONE MAN (emphasize not "shout") could have On Our LifeTime </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>and Society!!! . . . and toward Peace and Higher Awareness</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>.................& Peace/GPAX "relevant" . . . but <STRONG>still meant</STRONG> it for "discussion".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>peace</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lovin You</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<STRONG><FONT color=#ff7f00>Albert_Hofmann</FONT></STRONG></A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><IMG id=fullSizedImage alt="peace-1.jpg peace image by lNaTaLyl" src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c96/lNaTaLyl/peace-1.jpg"><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 5/10/08, <B class=gmail_sendername>Elena Everett</B> <<A href="mailto:greentararaider@yahoo.com">greentararaider@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">William and Lynn, <BR><BR>Could you please keep your GPAX posts to GPAX related stuff... in the past we've done a better job asking folk not to send forwards to the list, unless they're specifically related to Green Party member's peace work or proposed GPAX work...<BR><BR>Obviously this committee is now in disfunction, but it's probably generally helpful to remember that everyone on this list is here as a working committee delegate. For me, knowing that folks will post items relevant to peace action work/discussion makes me at least glance through the emails when I can... but when I think I have to wade through forwards and completely unrelated stuff, my finger moves to the delete key with more speed. <BR><BR>Much thanks,<BR>Elena<BR>North Carolina <DIV><SPAN class=e id=q_119d55ebf8f86caf_1><BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new
roman,new york,times,serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Makers of Peace <<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:makersofpeace@yahoo.com" target=_blank>makersofpeace@yahoo.com</A>><BR>To: <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:peace@lists.gp-us.org" target=_blank>peace@lists.gp-us.org</A><BR>Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:32:02 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [GPUS-PAX] * kat * as "Wonder Woman": Woman WORKING FOR GOOD/PEACE!<BR><BR> <H1><FONT size=4>Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on <FONT color=#330099>Final Trip</FONT></FONT></H1> <H2>He was the first person to experience an acid trip--for both good and bad</H2> <DIV>By David Biello </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <A href="http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.jpg" target=_top><IMG height=86
src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:P-EUUOpUvll-vM:http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2006/LSD-Albert-Hofmann7jan06.jpg" width=56></A> <DIV><STRONG>ALBERT HOFMANN:</STRONG> Invented LSD as the 25th variation of a compound derived from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye.<BR><SPAN><FONT color=#c2bbb4>©PHILIP H. BAILEY</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV> <DIV>Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=67242F1C-FBD3-BC26-FA8585B8F16D051F" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>LSD</FONT></A>, died yesterday at the age of 102, just 10 days after the 55th anniversary of his notorious bicycle trip while tripping on "acid". Hofmann, who suffered a heart attack at home in Basel, Switzerland, was the first person to synthesize lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, and the first human known to experience its <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=neuroscientists-probe-psy" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>mind-bending effects</FONT></A>.<BR><BR>The drug was the 25th he created from the basic chemical ingredients of ergot, a fungus that forms on rye, in his search for treatments for circulation and respiratory problems. He reports in his 1979 autobiography <EM>LSD, My Problem Child</EM>, that he became restless and dizzy when he accidentally ingested the compound while making it—and "perceived an <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-hallucinogens-play-th" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures</FONT></A>, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors" for about two hours.<BR><BR>The very next day (April 19, 1943), he swallowed 0.25 milligram of the acid to confirm that it had caused his odd symptoms. Overcome by dizziness and
anxiety, he asked an assistant to bicycle him home; once there, he writes that he was overcome by feelings that he might die (prompting a later call to his physician), along with <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=not-imagining-it" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>delusions</FONT></A> that included perceiving a kindly neighbor transformed into a malevolent witch.<BR><BR>Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, his employer at the time, tried to promote LSD as a <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=psychedelic-healing" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>drug to treat psychiatric disorders</FONT></A> such as schizophrenia under the trade name Delysid by sending samples to psychiatrists—and the compound was briefly used as the treatment du jour in conjunction with psychoanalysis.<BR><BR>But acid swiftly found its way into <A onclick="return
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=self-experimenter-chemist-explores-new-psychedelics" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0aa1dd>wider use</FONT></A> among artists, writers (such as <EM>Brave New World's </EM>Aldous Huxley), actors (including established movie stars like Cary Grant), and rebellious teens in the 1950s and 1960s. In fact, it became so popular as a way to "tune in, turn on and drop out" that in 1966 New York State and California made it a crime to possess it; the U.S. government followed suit in 1970.<BR><BR>Hofmann also manufactured a wide range of medical drugs from ergot, including methergine (which is still used to halt bleeding after birth) and hydergine (which improves circulation). In the psychedelic realm, he was also the first to synthesize <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=neuroscientists-probe-psy" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT
color=#0aa1dd>psilocybin</FONT></A>, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms (<EM>Psilocybe mexicana</EM>).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>YOUTUBE"""""":::::::::::::::::</DIV> <DIV><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9jdNl5_F_o" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9jdNl5_F_o</A> </DIV> <DIV>and talk by Albert Hofmann:</DIV> <DIV><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq_sBsjbAU" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq_sBsjbAU</A> </DIV></DIV> <div></div> <HR SIZE=1> </SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><DIV>Love and Light, wm and lynn McLean (a.k.a "dirt and trudge")</DIV> <DIV>the Blueberry Peace Farm, Magee, MS, U.S.A., EARTH </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV></FONT><A
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