For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to dose an estimated ...

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug an estimated ...

On a spring day he took 0.25 milligrams of LSD – three times the amount needed for a fully-fledged high. “It was a horror trip,” he remembers.

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine – with just one gram enough to drug an estimated ...

The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.

He died on Tuesday. Born in 1906, the Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on grain at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm.

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to tryit themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug anestimated ...

By this time, LSD had developed its negative reputation, and Sandoz decided it no longer wanted anything to do with ergot derivatives. But Hofmann’s life had already been altered.