The First LSD Trip-Sitter Was a Woman

Hofmann, the first person to trip on LSD, was not alone: Susi Ramstein was the first facilitator and the first woman ever to trip on acid.

Illustration by Arianna Lusardi — The first woman to try LSD

LSD-25 was the 25th alkaloid synthesized from the Ergot fungus by Albert Hofmann, who worked in a lab that had a policy of testing the substances they produced in the lab…