Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory.

In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, ...

George Harrison found his feet by 1969 and shone through the shadow the songwriting partnership of Lennon-McCartney cast over ...

What do monkeys, LSD and Stanford University all have in common? More than you think, probably. The connection is one man: the famed novelist Ken Kesey. A colorful figure whose work infused American ...

But after LSD spread into the larger culture, the U.S. government imposed strict restrictions on it (Dyck, 2008). By 1966, it ...