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01/14/2006: "Albert Hofmann turns 100"

Albert Hofman celebrated his 100th birthday on the 11th January this year.
In honour of the man who supposedly invented LSD, a symposium is underway this weekend in Basel, Switzerland.

The event will mainly host talks by experts from various fields, varying from vaguely to insanely psychedelic, such as mathematicians, musicologists, Psychedelic Digital Artists, Professional Drug Geeks, ethnobotanists, psychologists, pharmacists, activists, consciousness researchers... the list goes on and on.
Speakers that may be familiar are the creators of drug information website Erowid.org, 'psychedelic chemist' Dr. Alexander Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin, artist Alex Grey and of course Dr. Hofmann himself.

Rumours circulating indicate that some individuals are planning to 'drop acid' in celebration of the centenary of Dr. Hofmann, many of which are expected to hallucinate Aztec patterns and the face of Richard D. James.

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on Sunday, January 15th, Conor said

I know a guy who knows a guy who's in Basel for this. Must remember to ask him about it afterwards.

on Sunday, January 15th, Insanoscopic said

yeah, one hell of a party.. and it's underway right now.

on Sunday, January 15th, Conor said

Check out the list of speakers. EVERYONE you've ever heard of is there, including my good friends the Shulgins and Rick Doblin:

Albert Hofmann
Rick Doblin - founder of MAPS. Me and J.J. met him at Buning Man
Bruce Eisner - High Times magazine
Earth Erowid
Fire Erowid
Alex Grey - THE psychedelic artist
Ralph Metzner - One of the original Millbrook 'Trinity', along with Leary and Alpert
David Nichols - Invented bromo-dragonfly, among others. Coined the word 'entactogen'
Johnathan Ott - Wrote 'Pharmacotheon', a psychedelic encyclopedia

on Sunday, January 15th, Conor said

100! Proof that acid is good for your health.