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Basel, April 16, 1943, Sandoz Laboratories. Dr Albert Hofmann was researching the properties of rye fungus, as a cure for migraine. During the afternoon he began to feel peculiar, and went home to lie down. “With eyes closed,” he wrote, “I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours.”

Unwittingly, Dr Hofmann had taken the first-ever acid trip.

67 years later, here's some historical perspective.