Albert Hofmann: 'greatest living genius'

It's not like LSD was his only contribution...

I think Hofmann's ideas on these substances are well known and published in a variety of places. I am paraphrasing for him here, but I believe he considers these substances to be awe-inspiring and full of great power and potential, but they also have the great potential to be abused for destructive, hedonistic, ignoble, and/or other nefarious purposes. Hence the term "problem child" for his discovery of LSD. The last official word I heard from him on the clinical use of LSD was that he thought it could be a powerful antidepressant if used in very small doses, but was probably too unpredictable to be used in high dose sessions unless the protocols had been thoroughly and rigidly explored and wrung out to minimize adverse reactions. He is not a shaman or a "head" in the sense that he uses drugs recreationally. Personally, I think he is a bit scared of the power of LSD, and he still feels ambiguous guilt/pride over the forces he unleashed upon the world, and I think these are legitimate feelings. But he also knows it is out of his hands now, and that ultimately he was just performing the routine motions of chemical synthesis when the genie released itself from the bottle. He was looking for blood-pressure medication and instead he found LSD. He is an accidental messiah; the best kind.

morn, not more. :)

Just thinking of the Albert, this more. I wonder what his opinions of DMT vs. LSD, are? I wish I could ask him that. Someone else ask him, if they get the chance, 'k? :)