Albert Hofmann Bicycle

Masikati emusi waKubvumbi 19, 1943, weSwitzerland chemist Albert Hofmann yakadonha asidhi ndokuchovha bhasikoro rake kumba. Hofmann, akashanda mudhipatimendi remishonga reSandoz Laboratories muBasel, akatanga kugadzira. LSD muna 1938 apo vachiedza kugadzira stimulant kurapa kufema uye circulatory matambudziko.

Akanga asingazive kuti komboni iyi ine psychedelic effects, uye haina kuburitsa mhedzisiro inooneka payakaedzwa pamhuka dzakaradzikwa, saka akaiisa parutivi.

Makore mashanu gare gare, Hofmann akasarudza kushanyirazve chisiko chake. Musi waApril 16, 1943, akagadzira imwe batch yeLSD. Panguva ino, akangoerekana apinza chidimbu chidiki muganda rake, uye akanyura mukati "Chinhu chisingafadzi chakadhakwa sechimiro, chinoratidzwa nekufungidzira kunokurudzirwa zvakanyanya."

Akafunga kuzviedza nedose nemaune kuti asimbise mhedzisiro yemukomboni, uye na4:20 pm musi wa19 Kubvumbi, akamedza 250 micrograms yemukemikari.

Nenguva isipi akaziva kuti rwendo rwaizonyanya, akakumbira mubatsiri wake kuti amubatsire kusvika kumba. Zvirambidzo zvenguva yehondo zvairambidza mota mumigwagwa yeBasel, saka vaifanira kuchovha bhasikoro - ndosaka Kubvumbi 19 kwava kuzivikanwa pasi rese se. Bhasikoro Zuva.

Nekukwira uku kwakashata kwe trippy, Hofmann akava musayendisiti-mwari we psychedelics, shoko rakaumbwa nachiremba wepfungwa Humphry Osmond richibva pamashoko echiGiriki okuti “kuzarura pfungwa”.

Mutori wenhau John Horgan akanyorera Scientific American kuti Hofmann aidavira payakashandiswa zvakanaka, psychedelics inogona kunyandura "simba rekuzvarwa reruzivo rwekuona" iro isu tese tinaro sevana, uye kurasikirwa sezvatinokura.

Hofmann aive nehukama hwakaoma nemunda waakabatsira kugadzira, achidaidza LSD yake "dambudziko mwana" mu bhuku raakanyora nezvemipiro yake kune psychedelic chemistry.

Akadzidzawo mashiripiti howa uye ndiye akatanga kuparadzanisa, kugadzira, uye kutumidza iyo psychedelic komputa psilocybin uye psilocin. Iye akaudza Horgan nezverwendo rwepsilocybin rwaakatora panguva yaakazoguma ave muguta remweya mukati mepasi.

"Hapana aivepo," Hofmann akadaro. “Ndainzwa kusurukirwa zvachose, kusurukirwa zvachose. Manzwiro akaipisisa!” Paakadzokera kundege iyi akazviwana ava neshamwari zvakare, Hofmann akanzwa kufara. Akaudza Horgan, mukutaura kwake kunorema kweSwiss, “Ndaive nemanzwiro ekuzvarwa patsva! Kuti uone iko zvino! Uye ona kuti upenyu hunoshamisa sei hwatinahwo kuno!”

Kuda kunzwa kuberekwa patsva kunonyanya kumanikidza munguva yeCOVID-19 uye kuzviparadzanisa nevamwe. The psychedelics magazini yeDoubleBlind nguva pfupi yadarika yakaburitsa chinyorwa pa kushandisa quarantine senguva yekuongorora kwemukati nekuzvivandudza.

DoubleBlind co-muvambi Madison Margolin anoti, mune imwe nzira yeCCIDID-shoma muchadenga, achange achicherechedza Bicycle Day pane psychedelic seder. “Takaronga kubatana Disco Dining Club kupemberera Zuva Remabhasikoro nePaseka.”

Pane kudaro, Margolin anoti, DoubleBlind iri kuita pamwe chete mutambo wepamhepo wepamhepo neSPORE (Sosaiti yePsychedelic Outreach, Reform, and Education) musi waKubvumbi 19 kutsigira kuedza kwekubatsira coronavirus, "kupemberera kudzoreredzwa uye kubatana kwedu nePasi uye mumwe nemumwe," kutanga pa 8:45 am PST.

Margolin ane zvimwe zvinonetsa pamusoro pemabhizimusi matsva anopinda munzvimbo ye psychedelic, anodaro, apo tinoona "psychedelic renaissance.” Kwemakore, zvisingabatsiri senge Multidisciplinary Association yePsychedelic Studies (MAPS) uye Chacruna Institute for Plant Medicine vakasimbisa tsvakurudzo uye dzidzo kuti vanhu vabatsirwe kubva kune psychedelics.

Asi nguva pfupi yadarika, mabhirioni eSilicon Valley anga achiongorora purofiti yeindasitiri, neuro-pharmaceutical corporations vari kukura commercial psychedelic compounds, uye Wall Street Journal inofukidza psychedelic kutanga.

"Zvinongoitika zvoga neindasitiri ipi neipi itsva inopisa," Margolin anodaro. Ane tariro, zvisinei, kuti sezvakaita psychedelics kupomerwa mhosva panharaunda yenharaunda, uye tsvakurudzo yekiriniki nekuvandudzwa kwezvokurapa zvinoramba zvichifambira mberi, kuti vatsva kunzvimbo vachakudza zvinhu zvemweya zvekufamba.

"Makambani mashoma ari kutsvaga kubvisa mishonga yekugadzira kubva kune psychedelics, vachibvisa 'rwendo' kubva pane zvakaitika," anodaro Margolin. "Zvisinei, vazhinji vepfungwa vanotenda kuti rwendo ndiwo mushonga."

Ndizvo zvakaitika kuna Albert Hofmann paLSD. Pazuva rake rekuzvarwa kwezana muna 100, pamusangano wepasi rose muBasel, akapa nhaurwa umo akataura kuti, “Zvakandipa rufaro rwemukati, pfungwa dzakazaruka, kutenda, maziso akazaruka uye nekunzwa kwemukati kwezvishamiso zvekusika…. Ndinofunga kuti mukushanduka kwevanhu hazvina kumbove zvakafanira kuva nechinhu ichi, LSD. Chingori chishandiso chekutishandura kuti tive zvatinofanira kuva. "