’60s Flashback: LSD as Autism Treatment

There’s a really interesting article at Retrospectacle about the formerly accepted use of LSD as a prospective treatment for Autism in children in the ’60s. Albert Hoffman’s discovery of LSD in 1941 was quickly realized as having “fantastic pictures, extrodinary shapes, with intense kaleidoscopic play of colors” as a ’side-effect’, and after initial trials on schizophrenic adults, low dose trials were approved for autistic and schizophrenic children.

“None of the children ate their lunch…”

Jeeeeezus.