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Weekly Dose: LSD – dangerous, mystical or therapeutic?

  • Written by Julaine Allan, Senior Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University
imageLSD causes euphoria, increased body temperature and hallucinations where some or all of the senses are distorted.from shutterstock.com

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a synthetic chemical made from a substance found in a fungus that grows on rye and other grains, called ergot.

In 1943, Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann – who was interested in...

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