“The Acid King” Pt. 2: William Pickard
Oct 30, 2020•45 min•Ep. 108
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Episode description
After the 1988 bust of his Mountain View LSD lab, William Pickard turned to academics and convinced his colleagues he was done cooking acid. In truth, he set up a new lab in a retrofitted Cold War silo and started making LSD by the kilo — becoming the drug’s largest producer in the history of the U.S.
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