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What Is LSD?
LZ Granderson: 1967 is the summer of love. Everybody's gone to San Francisco with flowers in their hair. A lot of these people have bitch and long hair. So I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. LZ: LSD or Lysergic Acid Diaphilamide was first synthesized in 1938 by Swiss scientist Albert Hoffman, who accidentally discovered its hallucinogen effects in 1943. The drug would become a symbol of the 1960s counterculture and would eventually join other hallucinogenic and recreational drugs at rave parties. This whole LSD thing is tied, lock, stock, and barrel to the west coast onset of rock and roll in the 60s,"