The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD (2011)
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Martin Witz
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The documentary traces the history of LSD from Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann’s discovery of the substance in Basel in 1943 to its use by psychiatrists in the 1950s. It then follows the drug’s spread beyond clinical settings in the 1960s, its prohibition in the 1970s, and its later return to legal therapeutic use.
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Documentation, documentary film
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