Albert Hofmann Took Massive LSD Dose With No Knowledge It Would End

What was said

"He gave himself apparently somewhere around like 800 micrograms, and that is so— and this is fresh to the universe LSD. He gets home losing his fucking mind. And remember, like, you know, anyone who's taking acid, around hour 6 hour 7, you're like, I just wanna come down. And you know you're gonna come down. He didn't know he was gonna come down."

Trussell recounted the harrowing 1943 self-experiment by chemist Albert Hofmann, who accidentally discovered LSD's psychedelic properties by ingesting roughly 800 micrograms without knowing the duration or effects. The experience, now commemorated as Bicycle Day on April 19th, was so traumatic that Hofmann later questioned why anyone would use LSD recreationally.