The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD

Action,Biography,Documentary,History

2011
1h 37m
7

Mick Jagger,Ronald Reagan,John Lennon,Paul McCartney

By coincidence rather then by 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 not only on the scientific world. THE SUBSTANCE - is an investigation into our troubled relation with LSD. Told from its beginnings until today.