11 Sep
2017
11 Sep
'17
2:31 p.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
|On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
|> See that, people.. Now they're associating Berkeley with fascism. ;)
|
|How did the saying go, about Berkeley producing both BSD and LSD, and not
|thought to be a coincidence?
No, LSD came from Hofmann, Albert, of Switzerland, found by
experimenting on himself. (This is i think worth noting for
multiple reasons, first of all because of the fact itself, in line
with good old tradition of sciencists, as far as i know, then
because this was in 1943, and i also had to read a horrifying
vivisection story (with non-human life forms) not to long ago,
where people got space in an english scifientic magazine for
i think it was either about acid or fire injuries, and i do know
now that mice start intense licking when their skin faces acid (or
fire), mind you, i know free (wood) mice which are brave and rush
onto your shoes, free rats which open tunnels only to allow you to
have a look at newborns with eyes closed, and squirrels which just
say hello, if you once in a while spend some nuts and sunflower
seeds. It will surely help improving something, though.)
But Ecstasy (MDA/MDMA) and such where developed by Alexander
Shulgin of California.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)