Today is ‘Bicycle Day’, 19th April, which celebrates the discovery of the psychedelic effects of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. My book ‘Bicycle Day & other Psychedelic Essays’ with an essay grounding this highly romanticised event in its political & social background is out now https://t.co/ZA8MzV2K0K
Happy Bicycle Day! our conference kicks off this evening with a book launch of Alan Piper’s Bicycle Day from @PsypressUK
Registration opens at 4pm today followed by the book launch at 7pm @UniofExeter https://t.co/YZA3F12UME
🌞"If everyone took LSD, everything would change overnight.”
In the theme of Bicycle Day, here's an article on Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the duo credited with the large-scale underground manufacture of high-quality 'Orange Sunshine' LSD in the 60s: https://t.co/UswtTkEXCR https://t.co/macQbPNPTQ
It’s been 80 years since Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD. This #BicycleDay 🚲, we’re celebrating the lasting impact his discovery has had on the scientific research of psychedelic compounds. Learn more about Bicycle Day here: https://t.co/cwdHzI4pJn https://t.co/u8sE2PlKax
"the fundamental question very much occupies me, whether the use of these types of drugs, namely of substances that so deeply affect our minds, could not indeed represent a forbidden transgression of limits"
- A. Hofmann qtd. in Bicycle Day by @Tzanjo
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happy bicycle day! here's a bunch of pictures in which i am tripping absolute balls. stay safe and hydrated if you're celebrating today♡ https://t.co/usXlujpSOK
a very happy bicycle day to all! 🕊️
thank you albert hoffman. although the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide was complete chance, your unwavering support of psychedelic experience changed the course of the human race forever
have a lovely day ✌️🌈 https://t.co/U8Aou6tbCS
Bicycle Day seeks to commemorate the day Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann purposefully ingested LSD-25, or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. In his research to create an anti-hemorrhaging drug using ergot fungus, Hofmann had accidentally been exposed to the synthetic chemical LSD.