LSD DOCTOR DIES

The man who turned Weyburn, Sask., into an epicentre of research into the
mind-bending possibilities of the drug LSD has died at age 86. Dr. Humphry
Osmond was the local hospital's superintendent and director of research
when he administered mescaline to the writer Aldous Huxley in 1953. Based
on Huxley's experience with that drug and LSD, the pair coined the term
psychedelic, meaning literally "mind-manifesting."

Osmond had started his research into LSD in England, shocking the medical
establishment there when he and a colleague suggested that schizophrenia
might be a form of self-intoxication caused by the body producing its own
LSD-like compounds. Frustrated by doctors' resistance to that thesis,
Osmond moved to Canada to continue his research before ultimately settling
in the U.S.

Obituary of Dr. Humphry Osmond