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 is the acronym for Lysergic acid diethylamide, termed an hallucinogenic drug, which means that it causes hallucinations, the apparent experience of things that are not real. Adverse effects reported as early as 1966 led to the restriction of LSD use by the Federal government in 1967.