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LSD was first documented in the scientific community in 1943 after its psychedelic effects was discovered by Albert Hoffmann. As news of the psychedelic effects of LSD spread, research of the drug steadily increased in popularity amongst the scientific community. Many researchers were interested in its effect on an induviduals brain, specifically the brain of someone suffering from schitzophrania. As scientific inquiry into LSD progressed, there began a growing interest in the use of LSD alongside therapy in order to treat a multitude of mental health problems, the most notable being its use in curing alcoholism. This slowly took LSD from the lab into the world of therapy. This positive veiw of LSD as a medicinal drug did not last for long. With the work of Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary, in 1967 a psycedelic counterculture based around their newly created religion, The Leauge for Spiritual Discovery, began to emerge in North America. The push of the this group encouraged people to take LSD for the purpose of having a spiritual experience. The influence of this counter culture created a crisis for the government as the popularity of LSD and the culture behind was opposed by many on the outside of the counterculture. This inevitably caused the criminilization of LSD, making it a schedule one narcotic in 1965. With this written into law, research into LSD in the use of psychotherapy faded into obscurity for decades, only beginning to make a comeback in the 2000’s. LSD is slowly making a comeback in the world of scientific research, however the only place that LSD assisted Psychotherapy is offered is in Switzerland.