Earliest Possible Sythesis of LSD?

What is the Earliest possible date that LSD can be discovered and synthesized with a post 1900 divergence point?

According to Wikipedia, Albert Hofmann 1st synthesized LSD while "studying the medicinal plant squill and the fungus ergot as part of a program to purify and synthesize active constituents for use as pharmaceuticals. While researching lysergic acid derivatives, Hofmann first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. The main intention of the synthesis was to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant (an analeptic)."

The earliest possible POD depends on who else was doing this sort of research or who else might be inspired to do so.
 
Interesting, I posited this question because I might want to write an ASB TL someday where Einstein gets a hit of Acid early on and comes up with an FTL theory as a result, and wanted to know how early this could be
Well, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.
 
Well, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.
No don't want a mind screw ending

I just figure giving someone who is a known genius a mind altering substance is a good enough excuse for some ASB physics technobabble, and I like keeping my ASBs as small and out of the way as possible

That and I needed to distract myself from frustrating research so asking something like this is a good enough distraction.
 
Well, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.
Why LSD, why not magic mushrooms or something? There LOTS of natural mind altering drugs. (although not so many that go in the direction you want)
 
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