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.
LSD, or d-lysergic acid diethylamide, belongs to a class of drugs called hallucinogens. This synthetic drug was first produced in 1938 by Swiss scientist who was investigating the medical uses of a fungus that grows on various types of grass.