February 22, 2004
To fathom Hell or soar angelic
Some cranks wrote that "by the rules for combining Greek roots, the word should have been psychodelic. They also said that even in the late 70's, psychedelic had mostly been replaced by hallucinogenic". All due to Humphry Osmond, who introduced Aldous Huxley to L.S.D., and who died this past week after a lifetime devoted to research into medicinal uses of hallucinogens.
