Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, accidentally discovers the hallucinatory effects of the LSD compound on April 16, 1943, as he accidentally absorbed a small amount while re-synthesizing LSD-25 for further testing.
The compound absorption, induced dizziness and, later, a " kind of dream world appeared' with vivid, colored hallucinations. He had originally synthesized the compound 5 years earlier on November 16, 1938. Today, LSD is illegal in almost every country in the world, and it is tightly controlled where its use is allowed in medical research.
