‘Shichinin no samurai, one of the greatest films in the history of Japanese cinema has its pride of place in the best 100 best films of all time. The film belongs to a genre that is called jidai-gecki( historical swordplay films) and can be rightfully considered the mother of all action films. The number of [...]
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Seven Samurai-1954
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Obit: Albert Hoffmann
Posted in medicine, tagged Add new tag, mental health, politics of drugs, recreational drugs, truth serum on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LSD was a lucky strike of Dr. Albert Hoffmann who was incidentally looking for a circulatory and respiratory stimulant. However, no real benefits of the compound were identified and its study was discontinued. This was in 1938. In the 1940’s, interest in the drug was revived because of its structural relationship to a chemical that [...]
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