Acid
05/08/2010
Slang for LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), a synthetic (man-made) drug invented by Albert Hoffman in 1938, rolled out by a pharmaceutical firm with a variety of supposed psychiatric uses in 1947 and initially showed great potential.
Thereafter LSD was widely abused by the 1960’s student counterculture for its hallucinogenic properties. Timothy Leary was a major advocate of psychedelic drug research encouraging peers and students to ‘turn on, tune in and drop out’. This was allegedly a factor in his dismissal from Harvard University in 1963 where Leary lectured in Psychology.
Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, reported that his experience with LSD in the 1950’s (when he was around 15 years clean and sober!) strongly resembled the spiritual experience that enable him to overcome his compulsion to drink alcohol.
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