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When chemist Albert Hofmann’s accidental alchemy created LSD-25, known as acid, in 1938, he unleashed on the world a drug so powerful that it had the power to permanently change lives and alter individuals’ beliefs about the nature of reality; millions of minds were blown and the cultural landscape was never the same again.

One of the many cultural side effects of LSD was its ability to generate some really great urban legends. For instance, one rumour has it that if you take LSD two (or is it seven?) times, you are legally insane! Another, stemming from a 1967 newspaper article, holds that LSD will make you stare at the Sun until you go blind.