The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD

The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD

Actors:  Trevor J. Roling, Hanspeter Müller, Mario Scarabelli Directors:  Martin Witz

In 1943, the year in which the first A-bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A-bomb of the mind. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, th...