MightyFunk

The father of LSD-25, Albert Hof­mann died in Switzer­land at the ripe old age of 102 on Tues­day, April 30th 2008. Hof­mann, an accom­plished Swedish chemist came across the pow­er­ful hal­lu­cino­gen on April 16th, 1943 while work­ing on syn­the­siz­ing chem­i­cals from ergot.

His dis­cov­ery of the hal­lu­cino­genic prop­er­ties of LSD had inad­ver­tently defined cul­ture — in par­tic­u­lar those ‘damn hippies.’

RIP Albert. Appar­ently, acid only pro­longed his life. Funk ensues to this day.

Read more about Albert Hof­mann here.