102-year-old Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in 1938, in the opening of the first World Psychedelic Forum Basel. 4-day forum attended by dozens of experts in the field of biochemistry, psychiatry, psychology and sociology, has completed its work on Monday. Most of the participants of the event was devoted to the prospects of the medical use of hallucinogenic drugs. Albert Hofmann (Albert Hofmann) greet the audience at the official opening on Friday 21 March. According to the organizers of the forum, in recent years - the first time in decades - in the world there is an increase in the number of serious research on the therapeutic effects of LSD and other psychoactive substances. In particular, the reported employee of the Harvard University Medical School on successful treatment of certain types of migraine LSD and psilocybin, and in Switzerland by the same substances are trying to ease the mental state of patients with late-stage cancer. In addition, closed the University of South Carolina clinical testing methods of treating post-traumatic stress disorder, ecstasy, and the results of several small studies suggest that ketamine-causing hallucinations powerful anesthetic - can be effective in the treatment of major depression. (Born in 1906) Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938. Five years later he published a detailed report on the study of such hallucinogenic substances on their own experiences. Hofmann believed. Quickly LSD use in medicine and psychiatry However, after the hallucinogens were part of popular youth culture LSD and other synthetic and natural hallucinogens in the list of prohibited substances and the financing of the experiments were stopped with them almost completely.
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