LSD Symposium: A Hofmann´s 100th birthday

On the 11th january 2006 the creator of LSD - Dr. Albert Hofmann - celebrates his 100th birthday, in his honour the Gaia Media Foundation stages an International Symposium on LSD on this date.

The speakers, with few exceptions, make up an impressive list of people in the field and include among many others:
Dr. Albert Hofmann, Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Dr. Jochen Gartz, Ph.D., Dr. Charles S. Grob, M.D., Dr. Stanislav Grof, Ph.D. , Michael Horowitz, Dr. Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Jonathan Ott, Dr. Christian Raetsch, Ph.D., Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D. and Ann Shulgin.

The topics discussed will cover among other things the history of LSD, its role in the counter culture of the 60´s, its therapeutical properties, its impact on design, art and music, the nature and meaning of the psychedelic experience, drug law reformation, psychedelics and religion, as well as several topics on other psychedelics drugs such as psilocybin, LSA, DMT and the numerous tryptamines and phenethylamines examined and/or discovered by Alexander Shulgin.

All in all this 3-day symposium promises to be one of the greatest events ever regarding psychedelics and their place in society and anyone with an interest in psychedelics would be wise to attend, unfourtantly it looks like my economy won´t allow me to go..

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