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gamahuche1 year, 8 months ago
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James: Regarding your comment that Hoffman "discouraged all recreational use", I'm sure you're correct. But I suspect because he was officially and also morally obliged to. Had he been publicly a promoter of "turn on, tune in, drop out" he could have been seen as responsible - and liable - for every acid mishap that ever occurred.
From what I've heard of his lifestyle he was, perhaps inevitably, a head.
He hung out privately with many of the more prominent acid-promoters/disciples, attended conferences which were far removed from the dry scientific realm and, I BELIEVE that he celebrated his 100th birthday with some recreational ingestion. I think I heard it on the BBC at the time but unfortunately can't find it archived.
He found time to visit Goa, where he was photographed communing with the hippie population and didn't look as if he was on a missionary rescue expedition..
A loveable old fellow whose whole life was irrevocably altered by his first acid trip!
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JamesMarcus1 year, 8 months ago
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"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...." Well, I'm sure you're right, he couldn't let himself become the dotty poster boy for DIY experimentation. As for Goa--I was there five years ago, and didn't ingest a single mind-enhancing substance. But perhaps I'm the exception to the rule.
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gamahuche1 year, 8 months ago
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Sorry! The Goa reference was a red-herring.. When I repeated the search i discovered that it was a picture of Hoffman with a hippy PERSON called Goa, not a picture of Hoffman IN Goa with hippies..
However, I found this quote from his 100th birthday celebration:
In many ways, the conference, LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug, an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann, was a scientific coming-out party for the drug Hofmann fathered.
"LSD wanted to tell me something," Hofmann told the gathering Friday. "It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation."
Bent with age but still eloquent, Hofmann said he hoped the symposium would encourage the renewed therapeutic and spiritual use of LSD in supervised settings.
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The BBC recording re his birthday which my gf believed was on her computer has the introductory remarks followed by silence..
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