If LSD was created by scientists, how was it released to the public?

Question

And how did it become so easily avaliable? It's not exactly easy to produce and takes a certain knowledge in chemitry.

chemistry*

Answer 1

LSD was first made to help diagnose psychological dosorders. It was also used in the military.
Being passed through several hands gives many people the opportunity to steal it.
You have to figure that some of the people that were ginnea pigs also loved it. So, how do I get this stuff? Smuggle the recipe out and take it to a lab.
Of the years the original recipe was altered and other ways to create this high was found as well.
In fact it is not as hard to make as you think. Below is a home recipe that is very easy and will have you trippin in a few days.

Answer 2

"LSD" is an initialism formed from the German chemical name of the compound, Lysergsäure-diethylamid. It was first synthesized in 1938 by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives.

It was until 1966, LSD was provided by Sandoz Laboratories free of charge to interested scientists. (Sandoz gave LSD the trade name "Delysid")

LSD first became popular recreationally among a small group of mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists during the 1950's. Several mental health professionals involved in LSD research, most notably Harvard psychology professors Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, became convinced of LSD's potential as a tool for spiritual growth. In 1961, Dr. Timothy Leary received grant money from Harvard University to study the effects of LSD on test subjects. 3,500 doses were given to over 400 people. Of those tested, 90% said they would like to repeat the experience, 83% said they had "learned something or had insight," and 62% said it had changed their life for the better.

Their research became more esoteric and controversial, alleging links between the LSD experience and the state of enlightenment sought after in many mystical traditions. They were dismissed from the traditional academic psychology community, and as such cut off from legal scientific acquisition of the drug. The experiments lost their scientific accreditation, and the pair evolved into countercultural spiritual gurus, encouraging people to question authority and challenge the status quo, a concept summarized in their catchphrase, "Turn on, tune in, and drop out". Predictably, the drug was banned in the United States in 1967, with scientific therapeutic research as well as individual research also becoming prohibitively difficult. Many other countries, under pressure from the U.S., quickly followed suit.

LSD manufacturers and traffickers can be categorized into two groups: A few large scale producers, such as the aforementioned Pickard and Apperson, and an equally limited number of small, clandestine chemists, consisting of independent producers who, operating on a comparatively limited scale, can be found throughout the country. As a group, independent producers are of less concern to the Drug Enforcement Agency than the larger groups, as their product reaches only local markets.

I hope this helps you in your research if ever.

Answer 3

It was released by a few dodgy scientists who decided to sell it on the black market. I know of a doctor who supplies steriods to bodybuilders. Its a corrupt world we live in...

Answer 4

www.erowid.com


Tihkal and Pihkal

Albert Hoffman


p.s. The man who stumbled upon it was working for the US government.

Answer 5

it was supposed to be a head ache medican then they gave it out to everybody and people started making it.