[HN Gopher] Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday)
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       Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday)
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2024-04-19 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | goalonetwo wrote:
       | okay so 419 is now psychedelic and 420 is weed. We are in for a
       | long weekend.
        
       | zer00eyz wrote:
       | And then 4/20... and that's just a coincidence?
       | 
       | It's enough to make one a bit paranoid even without partaking.
       | 
       | Edit: I just went and re ordered Albert Hofman's book LSD my
       | problem child. Its been a long time but I remember it as being
       | informative!
        
       | foolfoolz wrote:
       | i find the story of albert hoffman synthesizing lsd to be
       | entirely unbelievable. he details it in his book and the story
       | is:
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       | - in 1938 he had a list of compounds to synthesize and inject
       | into mice
       | 
       | - most do nothing, one of them, the 25th item in the list, causes
       | restlessness. he notes this and moves on to the next
       | 
       | - none of the many compounds tested produced any significant
       | results and nothing comes of this
       | 
       | - 5 years later he just one day remembers that one lsd compound,
       | number 25, that produced restlessness and decides to remake it
       | and ingest it himself
       | 
       | this is the kind of totally unbelievable macguffin type stuff you
       | see written into the 7th movie of a long series when they run out
       | of ideas. this is like when a show jumps the shark with some
       | flashback to an earlier season with a "it was planned all along"
       | trope
        
         | morkalork wrote:
         | His research was on compounds related to ergotamine. It was not
         | some random adventure, the fungus that produces it has a long
         | history of use by midwives as folk medecine and is still used
         | today to treat postpartum hemorrhage. Now, what piqued his
         | curiosity? Did he have knowledge about the "dancing plagues"
         | and the theories they were caused by ergot contaminated grain
         | and if he did, did he make the connection to his feeling of
         | restlessness?
        
       | LM358 wrote:
       | This day holds a specific significance to me, as it's ten years
       | since my first psychedelic experience - with LSD.
        
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