LSD

The potential therapeutic benefits of psychoactive drugs like LSD seem to be making a comeback.  Swiss doctors and researchers are once again exploring the medical use of such drugs to help people with depression and chronic pain.

"Psychedelics can give patients a new perspective -- particularly when things like suppressed memories come up -- and then they can work with that experience," said Franz Vollenweider of the Neuropsychopharmacology and brain imaging unit at Zurich's University Hospital of Psychiatry, who published a paper on the issue in Nature Neuroscience journal.

Before LSD was  prohibited in the U.S. in the late 1960s, it found favor with many psychiatrists, the best known being Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert.  Vanity Fair recently reported on the use of LSD in Hollywood in an article titled Cary in the Sky with Diamonds.

Last summer at a screening of the PBS documentary No Boundaries about the author Peter Matthiessen, he commented about his own use of LSD, and quipped that if he could get Sandoz LSD he'd do it agan

If you've never seen the National Film Board of Canada's documentary on the development and early use of LSD by Sandoz's Albert Hofmann and others, watch Hofmann's Potion.