Albert hoffman worked in his Natural Sciences laboratory with air got its 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
the opportunity to offer some think quite amazing through the psychiatric and psychological circles so they were actually sending samples of l. S. D. To Universities Research institutes individual therapists and they were asking you know would you work with it and give us feedback if there is any legitimate use for their substance. So it came
if we can somehow identify what s happening there we ll be able also to find a substance that would neutralize it so that we would have a test tube. solution for the most important problem in psychiatry you know schizophrenia and other psychosis which would be like the holy grail in psychiatry . warning. and i mean. not only to me and i. during the cold war other groups became interested in the new wonder drug l.s.d. attracted the attention of international secret services at the forefront was the