2008 Because of the positive resonance on the LSD-Symposium (2006), Dieter A. Hagenbach & Lucius Werthmüller launche the “World Psychedelic Forum” in Basel, Switzerland.*** Honouring the 102 year old inventor of LSD, Claude Steiner initiates a group exhibition called ‘Psychonauts’ within the galery of the H.R.Giger museum*** the website Mutterkorn.net gives an insight into the history (or better her-story) of the usage of LSD, linking the religious currents of prehistoric Middle East & Europe with the electronic revolution of todays global village. ***  ‘Horizons – contemporary perspectives on psychedelics’ conference in NYC. *** Around the globe thousands of people express their sympathy and their condolences to the death of Dr. Albert Hofmann at his house in Leinetal, swisse on 29th of april *** DOPEC releases the thesis ’The Fruit from the Tree of Life – the sacred technology in the course of time’ which represents LSD as the sacred drug of the great ancient mystery cults, therapeutic medicine & philosophical tool.

2009 Albert Hofmanns (2007) letter to Apple founder Steve Jobs is spreading via internet, asking Jobs to support the therapeutic research on LSD. Taking the drug was „one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life,“ Jobs said and „if Bill Gates dropped acid Microsoft would have been a better company.“

*** When two spanish truck-drivers started tripping after they secretly ate some of the bulk of 5000 chocolate bars one of the most hunted european drug-dealers got busted. The chocolate was tainted with LSD and the police found kilograms of methamphetamin and 10.000 ecstasy tablets in his Ibiza beach-house. *** Within the scientific community of evolutionary biologists the so called “beer instead of bread” hypothesis establishes. With his book “Why humans settled” the german Prof. Josef Reichholf offers a provocative answer to the question of the evolutionary drive from the nomadic hunter- and collector culture towards communal living in mega cities as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. The drive of collective drinking and getting drugged layed the foundation for agriculture *** Ernst Jüngers drug-related writings are performed by Martin Wuttke and his Berlin theatre ensemble. In an  interview the actor describes the term “Väters Freundenfeste/fathers joy-celebrations” in Goethes Faust as drug-symposiums. In a drugged trance-like state of mind the self or I or ego was not the main focus anymore and collective visions were experienced, in which the mushroom, the Mutterkorn (mothercorn) and the earth itself was talking through us … which then became the foundation for archaic societies.

2010 A 50-year mystery over the ‚cursed bread‘ of Pont-Saint-Esprit(see 1951), which left residents suffering hallucinations has been solved as the investigative journalist H.P. Albarelli Jr. discovered the CIA had spiked the bread with LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War. He found a transcribed conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz official who mentions the „secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit“ and explains that it was not „at all“ caused by mould but by diethylamide, the D in LSD *** The US-American historian Prof. Linnda R. Caporael proves her thesis, that the convulsions and hallucinations that came up in Salem (1691/92) were wrongly detected as bewitchment but in fact triggered by Ergot-poisoning. After Dr. Hofmann called Caporael’s Thesis plausibly Prof. Mary Matossian began to set up a study of all areas where witch processes accumulated. In all areas of Europe where like in West-Salem rye was cultivated, the witch processes climaxed after a warm, wet spring and a stormy, rainy summer giving perfect conditions for Ergot to grow on rye *** Researchers found Ergot-alkaloids in the 2000 years old moorland corpse’s stomach and the intestine wall of the Grauballe man, found 1952 in a Denmark swamp. The assumptions of Linda Carporeal now seem proved, as this is a clear evidence that the Grauballe man had symptoms of an Ergot-poisoning and probably was brutally murdered as people must have thought that he was bewitched *** The “Soma” installation of the Belgium artist Carsten Höller is as well a spectacular art project as an experimental scientific assembly which is inspired by the myth of Soma as a wonder drink *** Scott Noble releases the US/YouTube-film „Human Resources – Social Engineering in the 20th Century“ and looks back to the roots of the exploration of human conditioning, rooting in the CIA’s MK-Ultra program *** British scientists decode the genom of „Chinese Spring“, a laboratory rat of the weath/weed world for better growth conditions.

2011 The first clinical LSD study on the planet in over 35 years is almost complete. The Santa Cruz Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is currently sponsoring this research, which began in 2008, when Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser, M.D., became the first medical researcher in the world to obtain government approval to do therapeutic research with LSD since 1972 *** Dr. Albert Hofmann and others reflect the nearly 70-years history of LSD in the Swisse film “The Substance” *** Scientist Jake Wintermute, Student in Pam Silvers „Synthetic-Biology-Lab“ at Harvards Medical School proves that símple microbes, as found on baking yeast can be modified to produce LSD.

2012 Martin Witz’s film „The Substance – Albert Hofmann’s LSD“ is nominated with the Swisse Film Price for the best documentary of the year.

2013 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim has released a study suggesting that psychedelic drugs could have no widespread long term psychological effects. The team analysed the drug use habits and mental health history of thousands of American users in the study, and found that there was little evidence of long-term chronic mental health problems. *** ‚Owsley and Me: My LSD Family‘ by Rhoney Gissen Stanley with Tom Davis is published by Rhinebeck, NY Monkfish. *** Ergot-plague along the beaches of the Northern Sea. More and more of the weeds imported to Germany, the Netherlands and England are getting infected. The ergot-alkaloids within the mother-corn are far more poisonous than those on rye and ingesting a few corn-grains can kill children, sheep and dogs. *** After the Sanchez family’s terrier Lucy dies due to a stress-induced heart-attack, after his autopsy high amounts of LSD are found in ‚Platinum Pedigree K-9‘ dog-food cans in supermarket-shells and the brand is pulled from the US-market.

2014 Scientists at Oxford University in the UK work on the idea, to shorten the length of time in custody by the usage of psychotropic drugs. The philosopher Rebecca Roache views the option to manipulate the perception of time perception in inmates by the use of drugs, such as LSD and magic Mushrooms. Within hours or days people could make the experience of being jailed for a thousand years.

2015 One of the largest drug busts in the history of the German republic. The ‘Leibzig’ police seizes 320 kilogram with a market value of 4,1 Million Euro in the child’s room of a 20-year old online-dealer living at his mother. His darknet-website “Shiny Flakes“ sold about 1000 kilograms of all sort of drugs within the last 1,5 years.*** The founder of the ‘Silk-Road‘, Ross Ulbricht, is sentenced to life-long jail, although two customers die ( heroin-overdose) after the US-government’s decision to keep the „Silk-Roads“ website-service running. *** Because a single father of three children handed a LSD trip to his babysitter (with whom he had an affair in 1999), which the (then) 13-year old girl ingested in a Munich bar, the formerly young man – (then 25) now 41 years of age – has to appear in front of a German court for giving drugs to minors. Her new boyfriend did inform the police. *** During the third international Conference for Psychedelic Consciousness, the ‘Breaking Convention‘ in London, the U.K.’s former drug adviser, Professor David Nutt , explains why the banning of LSD and magic mushrooms is one of the worst censorships in the world of medicine. *** Colorado celebrates the 35th Telluride Mushroom Festival *** Near Basel the Swiss Medical-Community for Psycholytic Therapy (SÄPT) meets to discuss consciousness-altering psychotherapy. *** The LSD-like derivative 1P-LSD appears on the internet. The UK-company offers this new LSD-like substance in their 24 hrs online shipment. *** The taking of magic mushrooms climbs within a year from 0,4 percent to 1,5 percent and Ecstasy from 3,4 percent to 5,4 percent, so that one out of 20 young adults have taken XTC within the last year, as a study in England and Wales reveals. The drug of the summer 2015 is LSD, while the dosage is generally lower than 100 microdots it’s usage amongst young people grew threefold within two years from 0,4 percent to 1,2 percent.

2016 Star Wars Animator Phil Tippett tells his anecdote: “I took LSD when I was working on ‚Return of the Jedi‘. I could communicate with my cat and it took me on a journey. I crawled into this cupboard with Brian the cat and we travelled to the centre of the Earth for like three billion years and I was just in this world of molecules.“ *** Groundbreaking research. The Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, USA, finds Psilocybin’s ideal Dose for long-term positive effects. *** The drug reversed restricted thinking that develops between infantsy and adulthood, as in healthy test-patients separate parts of the brain began to speak with each other, after receiving 75 mcd of LSD. The brainscans of the LSD-study of the „Imperial College London“ make onvious why people on LSD express their childlike creativity and feel one with the universe. As now we realize the groundbreaking potential of LSD not only to treat mental illness, but to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself. former UK-drug adviser David Nutt calls these test results: „as meaningful to neuro-science as the Higgs boson was for particle physics:“ *** Micro-Dosing is the term for the growing trend to ingest small amounts of LSD (10 – 25 microdots) to increase creativity, reduce stress, and improve happiness. With being a trend at places like Silicon Valley LSD is not merely to be seen as a drug of the hippie-past, but as a drug of science and future technology.

2017 Through LSD historian Simeon Wade wanted to enable french philosopher Michel Foucault to experience happiness and wisdom, when he invited Foucault 1975 to a trip into the Californian Death Valley. On his LSD-trip Foucault heard echoes of the big-bang which sounded like a choir of angels. By doing so Foucault wanted to access „different forms of knowledge“ and wrote a few month later in a letter to Wade, that it was the greatest experience and that it had changed his life.

2018 Psychedelic science is making a comeback. Sidelined for decades by the War on Drugs, LSD and other psychedelics are regaining their original reputation as effective therapies for depression and addiction. *** 14 Navy-sailors working in the nuclear department of the U.S.’ only aircraft USS Ronald Reagan face disciplinary action for using, possessing and distributing LSD. *** “Rausch” is this year’s theme of Basels’ Sci-Fi festival where Blotter Pioneer Mark McLoud invites Boris Hiesserer to create the ‘True Sacrament‘ blotter art design. *** Horizons Conference on Perspectives on Psychedelics and the Psychedelic Film- & Musicfestival take place in NYC. *** After his first psychedelic experience at the age of 60 US-author Michael Pollan publishes his bestselling book ‚How to Change Your Mind‘.

2019 A new rat study from UC Davis is the first to show that microdosing could have beneficial effects on anxiety and depression. *** A study of the University of Maastricht (Netherland) reveals psychedelic psilocybin improves long-term creative thinking. *** Egypt rejects French wheat shipment due to high Ergot contamination. *** The first formal centre for psychedelic research in the world launches at Imperial College London. *** US-city of Denver issues the first bill in the nation that decriminalizes psilocybin mushrooms. *** An old rumor that says that the well-known LSD friend Buchla dipped his infamous ‘Red Panel‘-oscillators in LSD has now been confirmed. 45 minutes after technician Eliot Curtis of San Francisco’s KPIX-TV tried to repair a Buchla Model 100, removing a crystalline substance with his finger, the acid started working and sent him on a trip. *** After ergoalkaloids were discovered, Bavarian company recalls their rye flour because its consumption could lead to nausea, headaches, high blood pressure and in rare cases also to hallucinations. *** A herd of suckler cows, in the north-east of Scotland, suffer from ergot poisoning so that some cattle have to be killed. *** Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbook was inspired to begin the climate change protest movement after taking psychedelic medicines. *** Proponent of LSD and author Richard Alpert aka Baba Ram Dass dies at the age of 88.

2020…to be continued