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[balamm]

Originally posted by Skweeky@30 November 2003 - 18:33
What do you need to know?

It's a drug developed by the CIA, they wanted to give to soldiers who went to Vietnam. It causes sever halucinations, and years after sometimes you go back to the trip


And use Google

I was pretty sure it was produced by a type of mold which sometimes infects whole graineries, responsible in the past for mass suicides after local bakeries used contaminated grain flour in bread making.
For centuries, whole towns have appeared to go "mad". People unexplainedly start to jump off roofs or exhibit sudden paranoia.
This still happens occasionally in some places.

Yes, the CIA experimented with it and produced it synthetically beginning in the late 50's, but let's not overcredit them or let this become another "evil american" excuse.

[MediaSlayer]

ergot

[balamm]

Yes, that's the one. Ergot mold.

I think it's actually rye flour that's the most common source of this mold.

[Cheese]

I thought LSD was invented by some Swiss guy.

Derived from Ergot:

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Mu...Lives/foes.html



Edit: Google - Albert Hofmann

[Raped Ape]

it was 1st synthesized or w/e how u spell in swedend in like 1968 or somting