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How LSD Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The Importance of LSD 25

The first time Hoffman messed around with LSD he sent it off to the pharmacologist. He wasn't looking for the most potent psychedelic known to human kind but a respiratory stimulator maybe like kids with asthma. Five years later, Hoffman suddenly just thinks about LSD 25 again and is like you know what i think they missed something i'm gonna make a new batch just on my own. It was sort of a little like a peter parker experiment gone wrong he got a little inside of him somehow.

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