Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory – and about how his ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

LSD began with an accident — a chemist absorbed a tiny amount of a compound he barely understood. What followed was a journey that would reshape science, psychology, and global culture for decades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Illustration by BORIS SÉMÉNIAKO On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the ...