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Dear LSD folks,

PSA:  The tenure of Jeffort on LSD and other LSAT related boards has come to an end.  

My discussion site www.lsatdiscussion.com and my LR Question Type finder tool that was on that site have been deactivated.  

The times I have had here dispensing LSAT advice and explanations while also having lots of fun have meant a lot and I hope they have been as fun for you as they have been for me.

As is well known, I previously taught classes for TM for many years. I have now rejoined the company and will be working full-time in the research and development department as well as teaching classes.

I wish everyone taking the June LSAT or later test administrations good luck.

I will miss working with all of you in this venue. This is my last post.

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Post Edited 01/08/2010

The above is redacted.  I'm back alive and well and www.lsatdiscussion.com is back online and like before I'll be floating around to give LSAT prep advice and answer questions.  

Nothing to do with the LSAT, but it seems somehow relevant to this board in some way so I figured that I would share the news...  I am sad =(

Split into two parts due to that 10,000 character limit per post.

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Sad News: Albert Hofmann died on Tuesday, April 29

Albert died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning, April 29, at the age of 102, fully lucid and deeply satisfied that LSD psychotherapy research had been permitted to resume. He spoke several months before he died about the renewal of LSD psychotherapy research, sponsored by MAPS and conducted by Dr. Peter Gasser in patients with anxiety associated with end-of-life issues, as the "fulfillment of my heart's desire."

Albert died several months after his wife Anita died on December 20, 2007, demonstrating that their love affair of over 70 years was the primary motivation for both of them to stay alive so long.

Obituaries for Albert have been printed in newspapers around the world, with links listed below. A moving obituary by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller, organizers of the recent World Psychedelic Forum, is printed below.

With regards,

Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
MAPS President

Albert Hofmann, 11 January 1006 – 29 April 2008

An Obituary by Dieter A. Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller

At the age of 102 years, Albert Hofmann died peacefully last Tuesday morning, 29th April, in his home near Basel, Switzerland. Still last weekend we talked to him, and he expressed his great joy about the blooming plants and the fresh green of the meadows and trees around his house. His vitality and his open mind conducted him until his last breath.

He is reputed to be one of the most important chemists of our times. He is the discoverer of LSD, which he considers, up to date, as both a "wonder drug" and a "problem child". In addition he did pioneering work as a researcher of other psychoactive substances as well as active agents of important medicinal plants and mushrooms. Under the spell of the consciousness-expanding potential of LSD the scientist turned increasingly into a philosopher of nature and a visionary critical of contemporary culture.