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, 102, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious “problem child,” died Tuesday at his home in Basel, Switzerland, according to Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
Hofmann’s hallucinogen inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippy generation.
“I produced the substance as a medicine. … It’s not my fault if people abused it,” he once said.
The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938. The Associated Press
