Of Parasites, Bicycles & Saints: a Short History of LSD
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Abstract: Most are familiar with Bicycle Day - when a Swiss chemist accidentally tripped balls cycling home from the lab in 1943 - and Timothy Leary's tiresome "Turn On Tune In Drop Out mantra". But the full history of LSD gets so much more colourful, so much more hilarious, and so much more disturbing. From CIA operatives agreeing to dose each other with "surprise acid trips", hookers hired to spike unwitting San Franciscan civilians, how the founder of AA achieved sobriety through a mind-bending trip, and medieval peasants losing all four limbs to gangrene, the history of acid has it all.Bio-sketch: Zoe Cormier is an author, journalist, science writer, broadcaster and public speaker with an academic training in zoology coupled with an upbringing in the music industry, and will deliver an insightful and entertaining public lecture about the history of LSD.
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The Storey
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1TH
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Of Parasites, Bicycles & Saints: a Short History of LSD
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