Boston.com – By Thomas H. Maugh II – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles – 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.
Dr. Hofmann died yesterday at his home in Basel, Switzerland, of a heart attack, according to Rick Doblin, the head of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
Dr. Hofmann also identified and synthesized the active ingredients of peyote mushrooms and a Mexican psychoactive plant called ololiuqui and developed at least three related, non-psychoactive compounds that became widely used in medicine.