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LSD: 1967

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Glin Bennet*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol

Extract

It is twenty years since the appearance of Stoll's paper: “Lysergic acid diethylamide, a hallucinatory agent of the ergot group” (23). In this he sought to reproduce in a group of subjects Hofmann's personal experiences of the drug, and so set the LSD snowball on its way. Some 1,500 papers must by now have been gathered to it; they deal with a greater range of uses than has been thought of for any drug, a greater variety of benefits and disasters, and a confusing number of claims. Yet we have little hard information about this curious substance.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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