European Science Café- "The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD" 

The Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta and the Atlanta European Science Café present:

"The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD"

In 1943, at the Sandoz chemical-pharmaceutical laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hofmann, in search of a respiratory and circulatory stimulant, first synthesized LSD.

Swiss writer-director Martin Witz's "The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD" is an informative and entertaining investigation into the history of a drug so potent that mere fractions of a milligram can alter a subject's perception of reality.

Viewers learn how Hofmann's discovery became the subject of 1950's Cold War experiments by the American military and the CIA, who saw LSD as a potential weapon. Meanwhile, international psychiatrists and consciousness researchers tried to unlock the drug's medicinal possibilities, wondering whether it might be an effective tool for contemporary psychiatry or neuroscience.

Discussion leaders
Karen Rommelfanger, PhD, Neuroethics Program Director, Center for Ethics Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University

Paul Boshears, PhD Candidate
Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien, Saas Fee, Switzerland

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