Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD in 1943, turns 100 on Wednesday. The NYT ran an interview with him this weekend where he muses on the circumstances of his creation, its “hijacking” by the counterculture, and why he no longer takes the drug.

He mentions having had his first (planned) trip — eight years after creating the compound — in a room carefully prepared with roses, Mozart, and Japanese incense, accompanied by the writer Ernst Junger. Unfortunately, after that were the ’60s, and today most people that remember Hoffman are total fuckwads.