In an effort to turn the world on to LSD, first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, they often gave the drug away for free, paying their bills by the cash earned from ...

Bicycle Day is a psychedelic holiday that commemorates the first documented trip on LSD, also known as acid. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was the first person to synthesize the compound ...

Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in human history, experiencing a kaleidoscope of colors and images in a ...