albert hoffman worked in his natural sciences laboratory with air got it's a black fungus that grows mostly on rye air god has been known in natural medicine since the middle ages but one of the new substances he isolated did not affect the circulatory system as expected it affected the human psyche lysergic acid dye ethyl the mind l o s d. and so forth and has right away i realized that this was a tremendously interesting substance for psychiatry he agreed. after the first clinical tests in switzerland some daws decided to release l.s.d. for production the novel drug attracted enormous interest from psychiatry ists all over the world. sandoz saw