Original Perforating machine (via Blotter Barn) Not surprisingly, considering the substance it was used to distribute, the symbolic pictures gradually became creative and amazing designs, later gaining independent existence any many designs have never been used to actually distribute LSD. Later the papers were perforated along the lines of a grid so that doses could be torn apart easily, and small symbolic pictures were added to the paper to provide clues as to the origin of the LSD that paper contained. It involved saturating absorbent blotting paper with liquid LSD. A popular way of distributing LSD was called “blotter”. LSD blotter art – The illegal distributionĪfter the US government made LSD illegal people continued to use LSD, but it was manufactured and distributed through underground illegal channels.
It was available for purchase from Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland, where Hofmann worked and many medical applications were under research. While it was legal LSD was distributed mostly in liquid form and as pills, capsules, or sometimes dropped onto sugar cubes. LSD was legal in the beginning including in The USA until it became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and other states and countries soon followed.Īlbert Hofmann holding a Timothy Leary Blotter Art Sheet (via Blotter Barn) LSD blotter art – How illegal drug distribution turned into artĬan illegal drug distribution turn into an artform? Can collecting art get you in jail? And how did a system for labeling illegal substances turned into a way of preserving psychedelic culture’s history and a thriving collector’s’ market? And where can you learn about all that? Answers and a glimpse into almost 50 years of LSD art inside.Īlbert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss scientist who was the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a drug that came to be synonymous with the 50s and 60s beatnik and hippy generations in The USA and worldwide.
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