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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“The Acid King” Pt. 2: William Pickard | Kingpins podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
