A friend to the health services (fair enough) but not to hedonists..
NY Times interview with Hoffman on 100th birthday wrote:
But Mr. Hofmann calls LSD “medicine for the soul” and is frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. “It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis,” he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960’s and then demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He said LSD could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and others “a crime.”
“It should be a controlled substance with the same status as morphine,” he said.
a correction on this article claims that the word “crime” was mistranslated and he meant something less strong but he still disagreed and no attempt was made to change the suggested classification.
and he actually got what he wished for (at least in this country!), it got classifed same as opiates. It just happened the govts also said “no current normal medical use”
However there is nothing stopping NHS using it today provided someone will do the paperwork and the appropriate security procedures are implemented. The real problem is though that with the low morale amongst many NHS workers the temptation to steal it would be too much (or even do it on the ward rounds).
Even with Ket there have been charge nurses jacking up whilst on duty… (ambulance aren’t so bad, at least they wait until shift change!)
I’ve seen some proper fucking carnage when people take acid at raves, as well as all the fun things.
Personally I have never had a bad trip but one I did in 1992 did send me on this mission doing an escalating amount of petty crime which could have resulted in me commiting an act of violence but I then suddenly came to my senses..
