Norman Ohler

How do you treat these people?

So they thought LSD could be really a big, big, big thing.

And I mean, I just told you when I first took LSD and I somehow was interested in LSD, but I never thought I would write a book about it.

I just used it once in a while when I wanted to understand something about my life or just enjoy a day in the ocean.

But I read a study that micro doses of LSD at one point help against Alzheimer's and my mother has Alzheimer's.

So I discussed this with my father who takes care of my mother.

And this was an academic study.

I discussed this also with a leading Alzheimer's expert that I interviewed for Tripped and he's like, wow, this is amazing.

Because LSD interacts with the very same receptors, the 5-HT2A receptors in the brain that LSD interacts with those receptors and Alzheimer destroys those receptors.

So LSD basically does the opposite that Alzheimer does.

And

I discussed this with my father and he said, so why can't I buy LSD in the pharmacy if it's so good?

He was a judge before.

He actually put people in prison for drugs.

So he said, you better bring me the story.

So I did kind of a research loop.

This is book tripped.

Then I came back to him in the end with the true story of why LSD has been made illegal.

And that is quite fascinating because the Swiss CEO, Stoll,

He had learned biochemistry.