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Of Parasites, Bicycles & Saints: a Short History of LSD

13 February 2024 19:00-20:00, Lancaster, United Kingdom


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Abstract: Most are familiar with Bicycle Day - when a Swiss chemist accidentally tripped balls cycling home from the lab in 1943 - and Timothy Leary's tiresome "Turn On Tune In Drop Out mantra". But the full history of LSD gets so much more colourful, so much more hilarious, and so much more disturbing. From CIA operatives agreeing to dose each other with "surprise acid trips", hookers hired to spike unwitting San Franciscan civilians, how the founder of AA achieved sobriety through a mind-bending trip, and medieval peasants losing all four limbs to gangrene, the history of acid has it all.

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The Storey

The Auditorium, The Storey, Meeting House Ln, Lancaster, LA1 1TH, United Kingdom

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John Hardy, Valerie Seymour and Anna Kirkham
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John Hardy
Lancaster University
Department of Chemistry, John Creed Avenue, Lancaster, LA14YB.
07921405516
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