Pickard was raised in a Baptist family in the Atlanta suburbs. discussing theology and philosophy, seeking explanations, exploring their place in life." "No one had quite seen anything like it," Pickard said, "so many people stepping out of line. Pickard, a bright young man who had had trouble with authority and a special interest in chemistry, was among the throngs drawn to the Bay Area in 1967. Then clandestine chemists like Scully filled the void. Used initially to study personality disorders, LSD had seeped into the mainstream before the government banned it in 1966. The most potent hallucinogen known, LSD can produce kaleidoscopic hallucinations, profoundly alter perceptions and cause experiences ranging from transcendent to terrifying. Nowhere was that experience more concentrated than the Haight in the sixties, which became a world center of a counterculture electrified by LSD. It showed angels and devils and seemed to reflect the LSD experience.
Escher, "Heaven and Hell," that Scully sold to pay legal fees. Later, Pickard paid $5,000 for a print by Dutch artist M.C. "He was trying to express some brotherhood of underground chemists," said Scully, noting that many acid chemists felt "we were doing a public service." Army Chemical Warfare Group pin with a flask and test tube design.
"There was a break, and I walked out into the hall, and he introduced himself as a fellow chemist," recalled Scully, once an "apprentice" to Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the most infamous psychedelic sorcerer of the '60s. Scully believed the drug could raise people's consciousness and had bluntly told the court he had wanted to "turn on the world."
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Tim Scully was on trial for making huge batches of LSD in a Sonoma County farmhouse. It was 1974 and Pickard went to San Francisco's federal building to pay his respects. A big drug experience to me would be a cup of coffee." "Nor do I synthesize controlled substances or distribute them. "I'm not a drug user at all," he said softly. In a phone call from Leavenworth federal prison, where he is being held without bail, Pickard said he opposes drug abuse and is straighter than most narcs. Pickard's lawyers, William Rork of Topeka, and William Osterhoudt of San Francisco, contend their client was framed by an Oklahoma con man who owned the missile silo and became an informant to avoid his own charges of making LSD. Pickard, 55, and Apperson, 46, have denied charges of possessing LSD and conspiracy, and face a June 21 hearing in Topeka. The DEA also has probed claims that Pickard funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in LSD profits to fund his own position at UCLA and to support ostensibly legitimate drug researchers at Harvard and the Heffter Research Institute, a Santa Fe, N.M., group leading the push for more studies of psychedelics. The Chronicle has learned that the Drug Enforcement Administration has investigated whether a surreal assortment of other people played a part in the alleged conspiracy - including women from a San Francisco strip joint, a Harvard psychiatrist, and a Manhattan financier who is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre. The case highlights law enforcement suspicions that since the hippie era, Northern California has been a haven for elusive, close-knit groups who supply most of the nation's "acid" in the belief that it fosters enlightenment. Hallucinogens have turned up at raves where they are used to party, at psychiatrists' offices where they have been part of therapy and at universities where scientists are conducting the first authorized human tests on them in decades. The tale unfolds amid a budding psychedelic renaissance rooted in the Bay Area. This is the story about the life and times of Pickard, a brilliant chemist who was deputy director of UCLA's Drug Policy Research Program, and how he came to be accused of conspiring to run one of the nation's largest LSD labs.
Pickard, they say, was poised to use the missile base, built during the Cold War to defend the American way of life, to make the drug that helped launch the 1960s counterculture and inspired Timothy Leary's exhortations to "turn on, Inside the vehicles, agents found sophisticated laboratory equipment and what they allege is enough raw material to make 16 million doses of LSD. But Pickard bolted from his Buick, which rolled into a ditch as the marathon-running vegetarian vanished into the heartland dusk. Clyde Apperson, a Mountain View business consultant, was arrested. Minutes later, red lights and sirens pulsing, Kansas Highway Patrol officers stopped Pickard and a friend following him in a van.
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