Usage Note: Native American is now fully established in American English as an equivalent of Indian, being acceptable in all contemporary contexts and preferred in many. It is especially appropriate as a term of respect used by outsiders, who may have concerns that Indian could cause offense by its association with longstanding cultural stereotypes.
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) is a hallucinogenic drug. It is available in liquid or tablet form, on a piece of paper or a sugar cube. LSD is taken orally, and has a slightly bitter taste. It is sometimes called acid, boomer, or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.Learn more about the basics... of using LSD.ade from a fungus called ergot, LSD was first made in 1938 by two chemists from Switzerland, Albert Hofmann and Arthur Stoll. Its hallucinogenic properties were discovered when one of them accidentally ingested some of the drug they had created.