Auction to raise funds for psychedelic research organization

David Pescovitz 10:36 am Thu Mar 17, 2005

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has launched an eBay auction to raise funds. Among other efforts, MAPS helps get governmental approval for clinical studies of psychedelics. (More background here.) From Wired News:

The items up for auction are a cornucopia of psychedelic drug memorabilia, including various beakers and other glassware from the Northern California laboratory of psychedelic drug icon Alexander Shulgin.

Also up for bid is art using a unique medium: LSD blotter paper (minus the LSD). Stevee Postman created a psychedelic (what else?) brain and eyeball image for the 60th anniversary of LSD in 2003. The work, donated by Jon Hanna, organizer of the Mind States conference, is signed by LSD creator Albert Hoffman, who is now 99.

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