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Today in psychedelic history (12/21) 4
#13664712 - 12/21/10 09:19 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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- 1967: Owsley Stanley's Orinda, California STP and LSD tableting facility is busted
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Scully was still laughing over the incident with Hendrix on 20 December 1967, when he looked out of his home in Berkeley and noticed that the BDAC stake-out had changed alarmingly. Where there were normally two or three agents, now he counted something like thirty. Owsley always insisted that any telephone calls should be made from public telephone boxes to avoid the risk of tapping. Scully slipped out and rang the chemist. Something's up, he told him, there are BDAC guys everywhere. Have you got any problems? Maybe we should take off for a little while. Paranoia, Tim, said Owsley. Pure paranoia. No problems here. Forget it. But Scully was still uneasy, whatever Owsley's famous intuition told him. Scully flew down to Los Angeles to see a leading criminal lawyer whom Owsley kept on retainer. He was sitting in counsel's office the next day when the telephone rang with a chastened Owsley on the line. On 21 December, six BDAC agents broke down the door of the Orinda house and discovered Owsley's tableting operation, 161 grams of STP and 217 grams of LSD—one dealer put the street value of the haul at over $11 million. Owsley was just setting up a barbecue for some friends. As the BDAC men crowded in, his first response was 'How did they find me?' The dealer Cresswell had followed was one of the small team working on the tableting. Careful though the chemist might be about distribution, he always allowed the tableters to take something for themselves to sell privately. As the agents inspected the tableting rooms that were covered with plastic sheeting to allow LSD dust to be collected and recycled, Owsley stood on his dignity. 'You're uninvited guests. Please take only the contraband.' 'Oh, you mean this,' the agents asked, brandishing the stockpiles of LSD and STP. 'I make only the purest acid, for my family and friends,' Owsley said huffily. Furthermore, he said, all his products conformed to the highest federal regulations for legitimate drugs. Released on bail, Owsley rapidly emptied his safety deposit boxes with the aid of the Angels, and prepared for his trial. A federal court gave him three years in prison and a fine for tax evasion. His advice to Scully was simple: 'You're on your own.'
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13666105 - 12/21/10 02:08 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good to know! Thanks. 
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Sheeno] 1
#13666294 - 12/21/10 03:00 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah daddy, right on.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13666661 - 12/21/10 04:21 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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nice posts u do
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13666874 - 12/21/10 05:05 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Learyfan said:
Yeah daddy, right on.

where did you get the pic my brother???????????? I know there are not many of him in existence...
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: dwpineal]
#13666903 - 12/21/10 05:12 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Rolling Stone, bra. They did a story on him a few years ago and it was awesome. 
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#15549119 - 12/21/11 05:42 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#17426663 - 12/21/12 09:18 AM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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45th anniversary today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 4
#19306739 - 12/21/13 07:43 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#21006992 - 12/21/14 10:23 AM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#22682189 - 12/21/15 05:42 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#23945242 - 12/21/16 05:41 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#23945721 - 12/21/16 10:37 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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217 grams of LSD.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Tiamo]
#23945723 - 12/21/16 10:39 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I am likewise paranoid about LSD busts.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Tiamo] 1
#24859311 - 12/21/17 05:48 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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50th anniversary of the arrest of Owsley Stanley, Melissa Cargill, Robert Thomas, Alfred Spoers and Rhoney Gissen at the LSD tableting facility at 69 Esperila St. in Orinda, California today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#25693071 - 12/21/18 05:57 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#26393828 - 12/21/19 10:37 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#27100270 - 12/21/20 04:07 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#27589087 - 12/21/21 04:28 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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But Alpert is the exception in this finale. At roughly the same time that he was giving his guru three of Owsley's best, Owsley was being arrested in upstate California, the culmination of a pursuit that had cost the government (according to John Finlator, BDAC's director) several million dollars and several dozen cars. The Feds had chased Owsley all over the west, embarrassed by his high media profile as a psychedelic Robin Flood. One story, in the Los Angeles Times , had a leather-jacketed Owsley speeding up to a Sunset Boulevard bank on a red motorcycle, like Brando in The Wild One. Owsley had walked up to the teller and from his pockets, his helmet, his boots had come wads of small bills, twenty- five thousand dollars worth of small bills. Changing them into 250 crisp new hundred-dollar bills, he had climbed back onto his red motorcycle and sped away. It was the beginning of his public fame: the LSD millionaire, thirty-one years old and all that money.
Owsley made a brief blip on the police screens in April 1967, when he was arrested in upstate New York after a visit to Millbrook. The police stopped him for speeding and driving with a broken taillight, but they later released him on his own recognizance. They retained, however, some of his belongings, among which was a key to a safety deposit box at Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company. And inside that box was $225,000. Owsley's girlfriend had a duplicate key, so that was no problem; and although the possibility of police surveillance worried them, a more important consideration was finding a permanent haven for Owsley's LSD profits. Billy Hitchcock was called in as someone who knew about high finance, and within hours a courier was on his way from the Bahamas. A few weeks later the psychedelic movement had its first Swiss bank account under the code name Robin Goodfellow.
It was useful having a European source of cash, since Europe was about the last place where you could obtain large quantities of lysergic monohydrate and ergotomine tartrate, the key ingredients for making LSD. And that wasn't going to be the case for too many more months: already the U.S. was pressuring its allies to pass anti-LSD legislation similar to its own. Tim Scully was particularly passionate in his belief that they should stockpile as much raw material as possible, and he also became involved in Billy Hitchcock's fantasy of buying an island, ideally somewhere in the Caribbean, and establishing an offshore drug lab. This was known as the Dr. No fantasy, after the James Bond movie of the same name. Hitchcock was also advising the acid chemists to link up in a kind of cartel, so they could pool resources, control production and set price, and in general function like a normal business.
Owsley knew about these schemes, but he wasn't too interested. Although he enjoyed being "the Mr. Big of the S.F. scene," as one of his new assistants, a young head named Teenie Weenie Deanie described him, and was "quite fond of himself and his position in the emerging acid world of 1967," Owsley was rapidly tiring of the heat that went along with the status of Mr. Big. 14 The constant pursuit was wearing him down; his paranoia, never a small thing, was beginning to eat away at his belief that he was divinely protected from the bumbling efforts of the Feds.
They caught him (thirteen federal and state narcotics agents) a few days before Christmas, 1967, in the California town of Orinda, where he was tableting the latest product from Scully's Denver lab. They caught him with 217 grams of product, about three-quarters of a million doses, which his lawyer, when the case came to trial two years later, argued were for personal consumption. Throughout the trial Owsley would refuse to talk to the press, claiming he was just an illusion the media had created. "You mean to say you're just a figment of my imagination?" one reporter asked. "That's right," he snapped. If he had it to do over again, Owsley would've chosen to be the Shadow instead of Robin Hood. When the trial ended, the judge sentenced him to three years in prison and fined him three thousand dollars.
But while Owsley's arrest certainly removed a major personality from the psychedelic scene, it didn't dent the flow of LSD. There was more product than ever, and a lot of it came from the new LSD cartel, which never really had a name, although it has come down to us as "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love." The name came from a bunch of former Laguna Beach surfers and juvenile delinquents who'd dropped acid, grokked the true vision, and incorporated themselves with the State of California as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They ran a head shop/ crafts store called the Mystic Arts in Laguna Beach, and had a communal ranch out in the desert. But their primary occupation was smuggling: the Brotherhood were probably the best dope smugglers in America. They were almost as well known among the cognoscenti as Owsley: when Leary was fighting his Texas conviction, the Brotherhood gave his defense fund ten thousand dollars. Tim, who became quite close to the Brotherhood and particularly to its house guru, an ethereal hippie named John Griggs, used to refer to them as "reincarnations of a roving band or Portuguese pirates."
(Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream by Jay Stevens)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#28106839 - 12/21/22 04:13 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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55th anniversary of Owsley Stanley's Orinda, California STP and LSD tableting facility bust today.
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