Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102. Hofmann reportedly died of a heart attack at ...

Do you know what Bicycle Day is? Hint: It’s got little to do with actual bicycles. 78 years ago, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann went on the world’s first LSD trip. He had synthesised the substance five ...

On the afternoon of April 19th, 1943, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann dropped acid, and rode his bike home. Hofmann, who worked in the pharmaceutical department of Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, had ...

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 ...

Albert Hofmann, the self-described "father of LSD," discovered the substance while working for a pharmaceutical company in 1938. Rick Doblin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic ...

For the uninitiated, the Bicycle Day international holiday might suggest a celebration of bicycles and riding bikes. But that’s only part of the story. Not to be confused with World Bicycle Day, which ...

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. Mr. Hofmann died ...

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 and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Mr. Hofmann died ...