2021 Bewusstseinsforscher, Biograph von Dr. Albert Hofmann und Präsident der Gaia Media Stiftung und des Basler Psi-Vereins, Lucius Werthmüller, verstirbt plötzlich und unerwartet. *** Bei einer 48.469 Personen umfassenden Stichprobe der Europäischen Online-Befragung zum Thema Drogen gibt ein Fünftel (20 %) an, im letzten Jahr LSD konsumiert zu haben, während 16 % den Konsum neuer psychoaktiver Substanzen (NPS) in diesem Zeitraum angeben. *** Laut der Europäischen Beobachtungsstelle für Drogen und Drogensucht werden in Europa 2.400 Sicherstellungen von LSD (Lysergsäurediethylamid), d.h. fast 115.000 Einheiten gemeldet. Neunzehn Länder melden 950 Sicherstellungen von halluzinogenen Pilzen, was 55 Kilogramm entspricht. Sechzehn EU-Länder melden 300 Sicherstellungen von DMT (Dimethyltryptamin), was 89 Kilogramm und fast 75.000 Einheiten entspricht *** Statt der eigenen Medizin nimmt der 1cP-LSD vertreibende Berliner Unternehmer Carl Philipp Trump Medikamente gegen Schizophrenie und ADHS ein, die ihm nach einer Depression verschrieben wurden. Der ehemalige Jesuiten-Schüler und Absolvent der elitären Londoner Business School of Economics entwickelt eine Schwere Katatone Schizophrenie mit Selbst- und Fremdgefährdung und wäscht sich nicht mehr. Zahlreiche Kunden, die beim Online-Kauf von 1cP-LSD in Vorkasse gehen, erhalten keine Ware und fühlen sich betrogen. *** Nachdem im Drogeninformationszentrum (DIZ) in Zürich 100 als LSD deklarierte Filze zur Analyse eingereicht werden, warnt SaferParty.ch vor hoch dosierten ‘Shiva’ LSD-Filzen.
2022 German ethnologist, researcher and author Christian Rätsch dies at the age of 65. *** The latest amendment to the New Psychoactive Substances Act (NpSG) in Germany has gone very wrong. A punctuation error in the legal text leads to a number of LSD derivatives being subsequently legalized or not being recorded. *** The use of 1V-LSD and other psychedelics catches on in club culture. *** The Netflix documentary series ‚How to Change Your Mind‘ presents Albert Hofmann’s groundbreaking pioneering work with LSD to an international audience. *** Awareness Lectures on Psychedelics in Switzerland (ALPS) conference convenes in Switzerland. *** Drug manufacturers invest in research into pychedelics. The New York biotech company MindMed announces that the first patient is being treated with LSD in a clinical trial for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. *** The ‚Drug Culture‘ congress takes place in Leipzig for the first time. *** A demonstration in front of the headquarters of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Virginia leads to the arrest of 16 psychedelic activists.
2023 The 80th birthday of LSD is celebrated worldwide with ‚Bicycle Day‘. *** The Swiss Medical Association for Psycholytic Therapy (SÄPT) celebrates the anniversary of LSD in Basel. *** The 6th ‚Breaking Convention‘ – a biennial multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness with more than 200 speakers from all over the world convenes at the University of Exeter (UK). *** DJ and producer Wesley Pentz aka ‚Diplo‘ puts 5 drops of LSD in his water bottle and beats Oprah Winfrey’s (1994) LA marathon time, with under 4 hours. *** The ‚Psychedelic Science‘ conference takes place in Denver, Colorado.
2024 “The end of the FDA’s war on public health is near. This includes the aggressive campaign against psychedelics, (…) and all other agents that promote health but cannot be patented by the pharmaceutical industry,” announces Robert J. Kennedy Jr. as the future US Secretary of Health and Human Services in the newly elected Trump administration. *** All Diamond-Shruumz products are being withdrawn from the market after an investigation launched by the US CDC revealed that products containing psychotropic mushrooms and marketed as “micro-doses” by the company led to 180 patients suffering health problems, 73 hospitalizations and 3 deaths in 34 states. Laboratory tests show that the ‚Shruumz‘ contain psychoactive pharmaceutical substances that are not found in mushrooms. *** The company ‚Lizard Labs‘, founded in Holland in 2012, which sells legal psychedelics and LSD derivatives, closes at the end of the year. The german company ‚QuasarChemicals‘ is already working on new LSD derivatives and announces that it will distribute its 1S-LSD beginning next year, in January 2025.