The Inventor of LSD

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dies at 102.

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  1. Anonymous11:14 AM

    Back in April...

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  2. Anonymous6:12 PM

    at last..he dead eh? 102 is not small number. lucky him..

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  3. TokyoTom11:51 PM

    Didn't the NYT declare that God (the creator of ergot and its LSD component) was dead decades ago?

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  4. gcallah12:37 AM

    "Back in April..."

    Well, excuuuuuuuse me. I just found out, so I thought some CR readers might have missed it as well.

    "God (the creator of ergot and its LSD component)"

    LSD is synthesized from ergot fungus -- it is not a component of it.

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  5. TokyoTom12:14 AM

    I see that you are right again, Gene.

    While I had recalled correctly that lysergic acid is an ergot component, I had not realized that the diethylamide of lysergic acid was artifically synthesized from it.

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