Norman Ohler

This is very nerdy, but I think it's quite interesting.

He had learned biochemistry from the Jewish German god of biochemistry, Wilstetter.

Richard Wilstetter was Nobel Prize winner for chemistry.

And his work was he would extract the potent alkaloids from so-called poisonous plants and make poison.

Paracelsus taught us it's the dosage that makes the poison.

If you take too much of a potent alkaloid, maybe it's a poison.

But if you extract a potent alkaloid, maybe you can turn it into a medicine.

So Stoll learned this from Wildstätter and there was another guy that was learning from Wildstätter, Richard Kuhn.

So it was Kuhn and Stoll.

Those were the two students of Wildstätter and Stoll left and became the CEO of Sandoz and developed the pharmaceutical branch of Sandoz and Kuhn.

became Hitler's leading biochemist and was responsible in finding a truth drug and also developing nerve gas.

But the two guys, Kuhn and Stoll, stayed friends also when the Nazis took power.

I researched the papers of Stoll in the archive.

And in the 20s, he would communicate all the ergot research.

LSD is an ergot product.

Ergot is a fungus that grows on rye.

He would communicate all this with Kuhn and Kuhn would come to the Sandoz lab and they did experiments together.

And then in 43, Kuhn was, you know, a hardcore Nazi scientist and especially looking for the truth drug at the time.

And I was looking through the archive.

I wanted to find the connection that, you know, Stoll also sent LSD to Kuhn because he