How a Swiss Chemist's Bike Ride Discovered LSD
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How a Swiss Chemist's Bike Ride Discovered LSD

A chance discovery in a Basel laboratory in 1943 would eventually topple governments, launch a thousand conspiracies, and convince an entire generation that reality was optional.

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PsychedelicsCold WarCIASwitzerlandCountercultureDrug DiscoveryMind Control1940s1950s1960sScientific DiscoveryGovernment Conspiracy

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