There are numerous names on the street for lysergic-acid-diethylamide: acid, trips, cid,  blotter, doses, dots and many others. It was in 1938 that the Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann discovered this potent psychoactive agent LSD-25 (a hallucinogen) . It was not until 1948 however that he ingested the compound, which had been sitting in a jar on the shelf for five years. Hofmann lived to the ripe old age of 102 when he died of a heart attack in April of 2008. He did not realize LSD’s psycho-pharmacological effects until five years after its synthesis. What a surprise it must have been when he accidentally ingested the drug and was sent on a potent mind altering trip. Apparently…