On this day in history, November 16th… 1938 : Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann became the first person to invent Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, better known as LSD. Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the drug at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland,  as part of a research program to find medical derivatives of ergot, a type of fungus found on rye. At that time though, […]