From Wikipedia: William Leonard Pickard is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car.
Special Agent in Charge Stephen Delgado, Drug Enforcement Administration, San Francisco Field Division, and United States Attorney Eric Melgren, District of Kansas, announced today that Bay Area residents William Leonard Pickard, 57, Mill Valley, California, and Clyde Apperson, 47, Sunnyvale, California, were found guilty today, following an eleven week jury trail of one count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute more than 10 grams of LSD from August 1999 through November 2000 and one count of possession with the intent to distribute more than 10 grams of LSD on November 6, 2000.
Melgren stated that according to court testimony, this was the largest LSD lab seizure ever made by the Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA agents seized approximately 41.3 kilograms (90.86 pounds) of LSD, approximately 23.6 kilograms (51.92 pounds) of iso-LSD, a by-product from the manufacture of LSD.
Further trial evidence established that in the history of DEA there have only been four seizures of complete LSD labs and three of these seizures involved Packard and Apperson including a lab in Mountain View, California in 1998, a lab in Oregon in 1996, and this lab in Wamego, Kansas
I want to know more about the supposed meeting with Gordon Todd Skinner at Jerry’s house... was this while Jerry was alive and lived there? Or did skinner just own the house later on and it was sensationalized by adding Jerrys name to the story?
"...Between 1965 and 1967 the well-publicized efforts of Owsley Stanley allegedly led—in the U.S.—to the ’60s phenomenon of LSD experimentation. Stanley’s labs in Los Angeles (1965), Pt. Richmond, California (1966) and Denver (1967) produced a total of 400 grams, for which Stanley was sentenced to three years after his arrest in Orinda, California in December 1967, where 67 grams were seized.
In 1968–1969 the Windsor, California lab of Nick Sand and Tim Scully produced 1,100 grams in Windsor, distributed through the Brotherhood of Eternal Love as "Orange Sunshine" in 240-microgram tablets. Nick Sand was sentenced in 1974 to 15 years for his work in the 1968–9 Windsor lab and 1972 labs in St Louis and Fenton, Missouri which produced an unknown quantity of LSD (also distributed as "Orange Sunshine"). Tim Scully was sentenced in 1974 to 20 years (later reduced to 10 years), and paroled after one-third time under 1980s law for his work in the Pt Richmond, Denver and the Windsor labs. While Scully was released after serving 3-1/3 years due to community service and support, Nick Sand departed to Canada and continued his efforts.
In 1968–1970 the Paris and Orleans labs of Ron Stark and Tord Svenson purportedly produced several kilograms of LSD and from 1971–1972 their Belgian laboratory reportedly produced another several kilos, all distributed via the Brotherhood of Eternal Love as "Orange Sunshine."
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I didn't know who he is...
I didn't know who he is...
From Wikipedia: William Leonard Pickard is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car.
His release is great news!
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But was it good acid?
But was it good acid?
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Special Agent in Charge
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/pubs/states/newsrel/sanfran03310...
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mountain view, Sunnyvale, big
mountain view, Sunnyvale, big time "contributors nearby.. thats a lot of boo
one flew over the cookoos nest too
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Great news, was sure after
Great news, was sure after reading about these guys a while back that it would be life in prison.
Think about the Dead Heads from the '80's and '90's who are still in prison for being busted with minor amounts.
Then there's the thousands of black men and women in there for crack from the same "war on drugs" time period.
(And yes, I'm talking about minor players here getting the book thrown at them, not the guys at the top).
Another not so great part of American history.....
Seemingly no end to it.
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War on poor people's future
War on poor people's future voting rights, let's get it straight
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I I want to know more about
I want to know more about the supposed meeting with Gordon Todd Skinner at Jerry’s house... was this while Jerry was alive and lived there? Or did skinner just own the house later on and it was sensationalized by adding Jerrys name to the story?
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an interesting paper he wrote
an interesting paper he wrote with historical info:
International LSD Prevalence — Factors Affecting Proliferation and Control
by William Leonard Pickard
http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/LSD-Prevelance.html
"...Between 1965 and 1967 the well-publicized efforts of Owsley Stanley allegedly led—in the U.S.—to the ’60s phenomenon of LSD experimentation. Stanley’s labs in Los Angeles (1965), Pt. Richmond, California (1966) and Denver (1967) produced a total of 400 grams, for which Stanley was sentenced to three years after his arrest in Orinda, California in December 1967, where 67 grams were seized.
In 1968–1969 the Windsor, California lab of Nick Sand and Tim Scully produced 1,100 grams in Windsor, distributed through the Brotherhood of Eternal Love as "Orange Sunshine" in 240-microgram tablets. Nick Sand was sentenced in 1974 to 15 years for his work in the 1968–9 Windsor lab and 1972 labs in St Louis and Fenton, Missouri which produced an unknown quantity of LSD (also distributed as "Orange Sunshine"). Tim Scully was sentenced in 1974 to 20 years (later reduced to 10 years), and paroled after one-third time under 1980s law for his work in the Pt Richmond, Denver and the Windsor labs. While Scully was released after serving 3-1/3 years due to community service and support, Nick Sand departed to Canada and continued his efforts.
In 1968–1970 the Paris and Orleans labs of Ron Stark and Tord Svenson purportedly produced several kilograms of LSD and from 1971–1972 their Belgian laboratory reportedly produced another several kilos, all distributed via the Brotherhood of Eternal Love as "Orange Sunshine."
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Yet from 1969 through 1974,
Yet from 1969 through 1974, my most heavily tripped years, only a small fraction of my doses were Orange Sunshine. Where did all the rest come from?
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incredible news.
incredible news.
just incredible.
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right on
right on
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(And yes, I'm talking about minor players here getting the book thrown at them, not the guys at the top).
Another not so great part of American history.....
Seemingly no end to it.
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Cough, cough, El Chapo, cough, cough...