Chemist Albert Hoffman, who created LSD in 1938, has died in Switzerland at age 102.
Mr. Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.
He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm
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