A fascinating, eye-opening history of LSD provides an enlightening journey through the innovations and contradictions of the late twentieth century. By coincidence rather than design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact beyond the scientific world. The Substance is punctuated with fascinating, ambivalent testimony from Hofmann himself (interviewed shortly before his 100th birthday), taking in early military testing, the psychedelic revolution of the 60s and recent psychiatric innovations that are reinventing the uses for the drug.
- Countries
- Germany,
- Switzerland
- Director:
- Martin Witz
- Running Time:
- 89 mins
- Subtitles:
- Yes
- Year:
- 2011
- Showing:
- This is a past event.
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