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Photo Gallery Shall We Take a Trip?

A Swiss psychiatrist is treating severely ill patients with LSD to alleviate their fear of pain and death. Other psychedelic drugs are being tested on patients in the United States, Britain and Israel. Are psychotropic substances about to make a comeback in therapy?
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LSD played a huge role in the American counterculture movement of the 1960s. Actor Cary Grant was one of many celebrities who experimented with acid.

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Guitarist Jimi Hendrix was also inspired by the drug.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has also admitted to taking LSD.

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Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD for the first time in 1943 in the Swiss city of Basel. He later referred to the drug as his "problem child."

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Hofmann died at his home in Burg, Switzerland in 2008 at the age of 102.

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