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.
It stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, the most powerful conscious-altering substance known to man. Made from a fungus called ergot, LSD was first made in 1938 by two chemists from Switzerland, Albert Hofmann and Arthur Stoll.hat it does, the physical and mental effects while high, what happens in the brain, after-effects of using LSD. LSD produces hallucinations and there is no way to anticipate whether the trip will be a good or a bad one prior to use.