Albert Hofmann's Mistake?

It has been taboo to talk about this subject matter, unless you want to come under fire and find yourself in the name of a governmental database. But since I am probably already in that database I'll write about it.

In 1938 Albert Hofmann stumbled upon a substance in which Kevin Herbert an early employee of Cisco Systems, Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis who developed the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences, Nobel-prize-winner Francis Crick - discoverer of the double helical structure of DNA, Douglas Englebart - the inventor of the mouse, and Apple-cofounder Steve Jobs claim is the inspiration they used while researching their discoveries or creating their products and who all turned up at a LSD symposium in honor of Albert Hofman's 100th birthday in Basel, Switzerland

Most of our culture looks at this substance with fear; others link it to the "dirty hippies" and the Grateful Dead or Phish. But this substance is also linked to traditions of human kind from day one of our existence.

Could it be similar to the fruit in which Eve ate under that apple tree? Is it similar to the active ingredient for the Kykeon beverage used during the Greeks ancient rituals at the Eleusis site in 1500 B.C.? We know Natives to the Americas used such substances in Psilocybin Mushrooms and the active ingredient of the Peyote Cactus, Mescaline.

So are these drugs a direct link to evolution? Are these drugs and the increasing use of thereof the reason why our technology has advanced so quickly over the past century? Is there a way for these drugs to be used legitimatly in a controled environment for the sake of science, of evolution?

For more info on the symposium check out WIRED's article LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?

Disclaimer: I don't encourage the use of any drug