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.
