Pickard is one of the two people convicted in the largest LSD manufacturing case in history. His lab, buried in the recesses of a decommissioned Kansas missile silo owned by his eccentric co-conspirator, Todd Skinner, contained as much as 41.3kg of LSD-impregnated material: enough for nearly 400 million stamps of pure lysergic acid.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Owsley would be proud
Seventy-four-year-old William Leonard Pickard is a stand-up guy. Employed as a paralegal at a law firm in New Mexico, he specialises in case work for the local indigenous Pueblo community – a long-suffering group for which he facilitates disputes, evictions, civil spats, and other everyday torts. He enjoys walking, hanging in nature, and reading Victorian literature in his spare time, of which he has lots after being released from jail in July 2020.
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All those who had to look up Owsley Stanley to figure out who he was please raise your hand. I'll go first.
ReplyDeleteYou probably don't even know who Wavy Gravy is, huh?
DeleteYou rednecks, I swear.....
When I read your headline I wondered how many would recognize the name.
DeleteThen I opened the Comments.
Dammit. Another name to look up.
DeleteAnd people say my blog isn't educational.....
DeleteNever heard of the guy either. - Nemo
DeleteOwsley died in Australia, in the last 10 years maybe?
Delete"You probably don't even know who Wavy Gravy is, huh?"
DeleteTo be fair, Wavy Gravy probably doesn't know who he is anymore, either.
No doubt. I've talked to him a couple times at Dead shows and I wasn't entirely sure he even knew where he was at.
DeleteNope neither!
ReplyDeleteBut like Jimmy said, “are you experienced? Well I am”.
Cavguy
hard . . . . to . . . . read . . . . seems there's a purple haze over the monitor!!!!
DeleteThat happened just down the road from me. I lived about six miles from there. I knew a couple of people who worked for Skinner.
ReplyDeleteAfter he got out of jail, Owsley worked as the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead. He recorded every single one of their concerts, and was slowly releasing them over years. Nice little cash cow.
ReplyDeleteAllman Bros., Airplane, I think NRPS, & a bunch of others too. For what they are sound quality is pretty good.
DeleteAlmost enough for a 3 day Grateful Dead Concert.
ReplyDeleteThey swore that anyone who took acid would have flashbacks for the rest of their life. They promised.
ReplyDeleteI got cheated.
Yeah, I'm still waiting on mine too.
DeleteIt's back on, bitches!
ReplyDelete- MK Ultra
Jesus, Wavy Gravy? That guy was baked 50 some years ago before Woodstock, completely no coming back baked. If he is dead and buried his grave ought to be a hazmat site. LSD, way overrated, my drug of choice, mescaline. Really became hard to find in the nineties, dealers would claim it was mescaline but it was most likely acid cut with god knows what. Nothing more fun than chasing jackrabbit and sage brush jumping in a rented car with a head full of mescaline, waaaay fun. Just a really fun drug.
ReplyDeleteHe's still kickin' at 84.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy
No mention made of whether his son Howdy Do-Good Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney is still alive or not.
Mrs. Wavy Gravy-
Deletehttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm1502201/bio
They've been married 55 years!
The best history of the times I've read: Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. He's neither pro-drug or anti-drug, just a straight up history in great detail. From Hoffman to Owsley, the Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, Tim Leary, G Gordon Liddy and on and on. Highly recommended.
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