Happy 102nd BirthdayAlbert Hofmann!

Although the birthday celebration this year was overshadowed by the recent death of his beloved wife Anita, the celebratee welcomed an illustrious group from all over the world on the occasion of the first legally permitted LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in Switzerland after some 35 years. Rick Doblin from Maps (Multidisciplinary Association

for Psychedelic Studies), USA, main sponsor of the study, Amanda Feilding from the Beckley Foundation with Jamie Neidpath, England, writer and journalist Mathias Bröckers, Germany, from Switzerland psychiatrist Juraj Styk, and psychiatrist Peter Gasser, head of said study, and both representatives of SAEPT (Swiss Medical Association for Psycholytical Therapy), Zen priest and animal protection activist Vanja Palmers, who supported the study financially, publisher Roger Liggenstorfer with Chris Heidrich, and Dieter Hagenbach from the Gaia Media Foundation. The many guests not only congratulated Albert Hofmann on his birthday, but also celebrated that his "problem child" finally "found his way back to legal application in medicine," in the words and much to the satisfaction of the discoverer of LSD. 1|11|08

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