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Today in psychedelic history (01/18)
    #15682069 - 01/18/12 05:41 AM (12 years, 13 days ago)

  • 1904:  Cary Grant is born




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Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Noted particularly for his work in comedy but also for drama, Grant's best-known films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).

Nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944), and five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Grant was continually passed over, and in 1970 was given an Honorary Oscar at the 42nd Academy Awards. Frank Sinatra presented Grant with the award, "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues".

On December 25, 1949, Grant married Betsy Drake. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962. Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 1960s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug —legal at the time— at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism had proved ineffective.  Grant and Drake divorced in 1962.


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Cary Grant's LSD 'gateway to God'

Actress Dyan Cannon agreed to take LSD with late husband Cary Grant in a desperate bid to save their marriage.

In her new book, Dear Cary, the Heaven Can Wait star opens up about the end of her three-year union with the Hollywood icon and admits she has come to understand why he took psychedelic drugs when he needed to escape his life problems.

Cannon reveals she was so desperate to save the marriage she agreed to get high with him.

"I think he thought it (LSD) was a gateway to peace inside himself. With all the wealth and fame that he embraced and that embraced him, he couldn't find it ... When our marriage started to go south ... he said, 'LSD will help us'," she says.

"That's one of the big messages of the book. I wanted to make him happy more than anything else in life and it's good to love someone and it's good to try and make them happy, but if you have to go against something that's intrinsically against your nature, that you know you shouldn't do, in order to please someone, it's death."

Cannon reveals Grant first experimented with LSD after discovering his father had lied about the death of the movie star's mother - when he was a child.

"He had such a traumatic childhood, it was horrible. I work with a lot of kids on the street and I've heard a lot of stories about what happens when a family breaks down - but his was just horrendous. And he never really dealt with those things. He tried to. That's the reason he tried LSD ... he thought it was a gateway to God," she tells Access Hollywood Live.

"Can you imagine, at 10, coming home and hearing, 'Your mother's at the seashore ...' 'Well why didn't she take me? Did I do something wrong?' And then three months later: 'Your mother's dead ...'

"Your father abandons you, takes a younger wife, has a baby. 'Daddy, can I live with you?' Cary said. 'There's not room for you!' He's 10 years old. Imagine that.

"And 20 years later, he gets a call saying, 'I lied ...' Cary comes to London, meets with his dad and his dad says, 'Your mother is not dead, she's alive'."

Grant's father placed his young wife in institution and told his son she had died.



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  • 1931:  Walter Pahnke is born




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Walter Norman Pahnke (Jan 18, 1931 - July 10, 1971) was a minister, physician, and psychiatrist most famous for the "Good Friday Experiment", also referred to as the Marsh Chapel Experiment or the "Miracle of Marsh Chapel".

On April 20, 1962 Pahnke conducted the "Good Friday Experiment" as part of his Ph.D. thesis in Religion and Society under his thesis advisors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. In this experiment, ten students from Andover Newton Theological School were given 30 mg psilocybin and ten an active placebo (niacin - vitamin B3) in a religious setting (a Good Friday service) to see whether entheogens could help facilitate a genuine religious experience. Nine out of ten of the students reported religious or mystical experiences while only one of ten in the placebo group reported the same. Among those who participated in the study were Leary and Huston Smith, professor of philosophy at MIT and respected religious scholar. Later follow-up studies (see Marsh Chapel Experiment) confirmed the results and the thesis that primary religious experiences could be occasioned by using psychedelic drugs in a religious setting.

In 1967, Pahnke joined the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Spring Grove, Maryland. He conducted psychedelic therapy sessions using LSD and DPT ,with terminal cancer patients as well as people suffering from alcoholism and severe neurosis. There he worked with therapists Stanislav Grof, Bill Richards, and Richard Yensen, among others. Pahnke served as director of the project from 1967 until 1971, when he died in a scuba diving accident in Maine.


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  • 1968:  Norman M. Yoder admits that he made up the "LSD users stare at sun and go blind" story




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First of all, notice that the ante has been upped: now there are six students; the victims have been made completely blind; and, as Newsweek described it, this tragedly befell engineering students who were "nice kids, not hippies" (unlike those California freaks who blathered on about having "religious conversations with the sun"). And once again, there's that nagging non-specificity of detail: the students, their school, their rescuers, the doctors who treated them, and the medical facility where they were taken are all unnamed. The spokesman is identified this time, but as we're about to see, Dr. Norman M. Yoder is not quite a reliable
source.

Although the incident in Pennsylvania was reported as a breaking news story, it had allegedly occurred 20 months earlier (in April 1966). Dr. Yoder, blind from childhood due to an accident, had attended a lecture on the "dangers of LSD" in the autumn of 1967, and shortly afterwards he mentioned the story of the blinded students to Joseph Hunt, the commissioner of the Rehabilitation Service Administration, an office of the federal cabinet's Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Hunt asked Yoder for a written account of the incident, and Yoder complied by submitting actual case studies of six blind students (with the students' names covered over), all of whom were reportedly receiving state aid. This "report" was leaked to an Associated Press reporter who released it to the media on 13 January 1968, and outraged government officials took quick action. The next day the Federal Drug Administration announced it would conduct an investigation and prosecute the persons who had supplied LSD to the blinded students. On January 16, Pennsylvania state senator Benjamin R. Donolow and the press secretary for vacationing Pennsylvania governor Raymond P. Shafer both stated at news conferences that the story was true, as did Governor Shafer himself on January 17.

Some sensible skeptics managed to make themselves heard, however. Ophthamologists expressed their doubts that even LSD could override self-preservation instincts long enough to keep a person's eyes focused on the sun until retinal tissues burned, or that such an occurrence could have remained unreported twenty months later. And when investigators began to check on the case reports offered by Dr. Yoder, they found several damning inconsistencies: one of the "victims" had been receiving state aid since before April 1966, and another hadn't even been a student at the time of the alleged blindings. Yoder admitted on January 18 that he had made the whole thing up because of his "concern over illegal LSD use by children." The "distraught and upset" Commissioner Yoder was immediately suspended from his post as he checked himself into the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center, where he spent four weeks before being permanently removed from his position with the Welfare Department. (Although Dr. Norman Yoder is the name now mentioned whenever this story is discussed, the creation of this legend should be credited to the anonymous hoaxster[s] who had planted the "blinded students" articles in California newspapers eight months earlier.)


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  • 1979:  Peter Wylie, Sheldon Perluss and David Bachrach are arrested for LSD manufacturing and distribution




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On November 24, 1978, Bachrach flew to San Francisco and met two undercover DEA agents who posed as Bloch's "source." Bachrach told the agents that he wanted to obtain one-half to one full kilogram of ET each month for a clandestine LSD lab in Berkeley. In turn, the agents explained to Bachrach that they would supply him with ET in exchange for LSD. Three days later, Bachrach met with the DEA agents and gave them 400 units of LSD, as well as a price list of the different types of LSD which could be supplied. (The list was in the defendant Wylie's handwriting.)
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On November 30, Bachrach and Wylie both met with the DEA agents and Wylie bragged about the size of the LSD operation. The parties agreed to exchange 30,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The next meeting was on December 1, at which time Bachrach gave 30,000 units of LSD to the agents for a bottle of ET pursuant to the earlier agreement.
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This was followed by Bachrach's sale of 2,000 tablets of LSD to the agents on December 7 in exchange for $900. A week later, Bachrach gave the agents a shopping list (handwritten by Wylie) of additional chemicals which were needed. These chemicals were given to Bachrach on January 2, 1979. Bachrach turned these chemicals over to Donald Goetz1 the next day. Goetz then gave them to Wylie. In turn, Wylie transferred the chemicals to Perluss on the following day.
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Meanwhile, on January 3, Bachrach and Wylie exchanged 54,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The final exchange took place on January 18 when Bachrach gave 226,400 units of LSD to the agents in exchange for more ET. The defendants were all arrested on January 18. The residence of Perluss was searched and a number of chemicals and formulas used for manufacturing LSD were found.
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All of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (Count 1). Wylie and Bachrach were charged with four counts for the actual distribution of LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (Counts 2 through 5). These substantive counts were based on the four different exchanges which occurred on November 27, December 1, December 7, and January 3. The sixth count charged Wylie, Bachrach, and Perluss with distribution (21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)) based on the exchange of the 226,400 units of LSD on January 18. And finally, the seventh count, charged Wylie and Bachrach with the use of a telephone to facilitate distribution of LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 843(b). After a six-day trial, on April 4, 1979, a jury found the defendants guilty on all counts.
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Bachrach, who was found guilty on all seven counts, was sentenced to a total of fifteen years.2 Wylie, who was also convicted on all seven counts, was sentenced to twenty years.3 And Perluss, who was found guilty on the two counts charged against him, was sentenced to a total of seven years.4


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    #15682132 - 01/18/12 06:41 AM (12 years, 13 days ago)

Thanks for sharing regardless though, Learyfan.:thumbsup:



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    #15683125 - 01/18/12 11:51 AM (12 years, 12 days ago)

jesus christ man for the love of god you mention cary grant but forget its Robert Anton Wilson's birthday!!!! blasphemy!!! :laugh:


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    #15683348 - 01/18/12 12:49 PM (12 years, 12 days ago)

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jesus christ man for the love of god you mention cary grant but forget its Robert Anton Wilson's birthday!!!! blasphemy!!! :laugh:




I put RAW's birthday in my Today in counterculture history thread. 











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    #19436984 - 01/18/14 09:33 AM (10 years, 11 days ago)

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Wylie, Perluss and Bachrach LSD bust.  It's also Cary Grant's 110th birthday.  Here's the full court summary on the Wylie, Perluss and Bachrach bust.............




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625 F.2d 1371

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Peter WYLIE, Defendant-Appellant.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Sheldon PERLUSS, Defendant-Appellant.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
David BACHRACH, Defendant-Appellant.


Nos. 79-1362, 79-1363 and 79-1431.

United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.

Submitted Feb. 14, 1980.
Decided July 16, 1980.
Rehearing Denied in No. 79-1363 Sept. 8, 1980.

Harry Hellerstein, Asst. Federal Defender, David Weitzman (on brief), Anne Flower Cumings (on brief), San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Robert Mueller, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Before THORNBERRY,* ANDERSON and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges.

J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
1

The defendants (Wylie, Perluss, and Bachrach) bring this appeal from their convictions on a seven-count indictment charging a large scale LSD manufacturing and distribution operation. They raise several arguments on appeal which fall into three general categories: (1) the adequacy of the government's denial of electronic surveillance; (2) the outrageousness of the government's involvement in the criminal enterprise; and (3) various challenges to the length of sentences which were imposed. We find no reversible error and affirm their convictions. For the reasons stated hereinafter, the sentences are vacated and we remand for resentencing.

I. BACKGROUND
2

This criminal enterprise had its origin with the defendant Bachrach's dreams of great wealth. Bachrach, a sometime college teacher, talked with his friend Alfred Bloch about one such scheme for making large amounts of money. The two men discussed the possibility of obtaining ergotamine tartrate (ET) which is used for manufacturing LSD, and the possibility of selling LSD itself. The discussion eventually took concrete form when Bachrach paid $2,000 to send Bloch to Poland in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain LSD crystals.
3

For reasons which are less than clear, Bloch approached the authorities and agreed to work for them in setting up his friend Bachrach. On instructions from DEA agents, Bloch told Bachrach that he could obtain ET from a source in San Francisco.
4

On November 24, 1978, Bachrach flew to San Francisco and met two undercover DEA agents who posed as Bloch's "source." Bachrach told the agents that he wanted to obtain one-half to one full kilogram of ET each month for a clandestine LSD lab in Berkeley. In turn, the agents explained to Bachrach that they would supply him with ET in exchange for LSD. Three days later, Bachrach met with the DEA agents and gave them 400 units of LSD, as well as a price list of the different types of LSD which could be supplied. (The list was in the defendant Wylie's handwriting.)
5

On November 30, Bachrach and Wylie both met with the DEA agents and Wylie bragged about the size of the LSD operation. The parties agreed to exchange 30,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The next meeting was on December 1, at which time Bachrach gave 30,000 units of LSD to the agents for a bottle of ET pursuant to the earlier agreement.
6

This was followed by Bachrach's sale of 2,000 tablets of LSD to the agents on December 7 in exchange for $900. A week later, Bachrach gave the agents a shopping list (handwritten by Wylie) of additional chemicals which were needed. These chemicals were given to Bachrach on January 2, 1979. Bachrach turned these chemicals over to Donald Goetz1 the next day. Goetz then gave them to Wylie. In turn, Wylie transferred the chemicals to Perluss on the following day.
7

Meanwhile, on January 3, Bachrach and Wylie exchanged 54,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The final exchange took place on January 18 when Bachrach gave 226,400 units of LSD to the agents in exchange for more ET. The defendants were all arrested on January 18. The residence of Perluss was searched and a number of chemicals and formulas used for manufacturing LSD were found.
8

All of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (Count 1). Wylie and Bachrach were charged with four counts for the actual distribution of LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (Counts 2 through 5). These substantive counts were based on the four different exchanges which occurred on November 27, December 1, December 7, and January 3. The sixth count charged Wylie, Bachrach, and Perluss with distribution (21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)) based on the exchange of the 226,400 units of LSD on January 18. And finally, the seventh count, charged Wylie and Bachrach with the use of a telephone to facilitate distribution of LSD in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 843(b). After a six-day trial, on April 4, 1979, a jury found the defendants guilty on all counts.
9

Bachrach, who was found guilty on all seven counts, was sentenced to a total of fifteen years.2 Wylie, who was also convicted on all seven counts, was sentenced to twenty years.3 And Perluss, who was found guilty on the two counts charged against him, was sentenced to a total of seven years.4
10

After sentencing, the defendants all filed timely notices of appeal. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to consider their claims of error.

II. DISCUSSION

1. Electronic Surveillance
11

Prior to trial, counsel for Perluss filed a claim under 18 U.S.C. § 3504 asserting that she had been the subject of illegal electronic surveillance in connection with her representation of Perluss. The government made a general denial of any such electronic surveillance. Perluss' counsel then filed a supplemental affidavit in support of the § 3504 claim. The government responded by filing a more detailed denial of electronic surveillance. On appeal, Perluss argues that the government's denial was inadequate and asks this court to remand to the district court for an evidentiary hearing on the electronic surveillance claim.
12

When a defendant makes a prima facie showing that he or his attorney was subjected to electronic surveillance, the burden then shifts to the government to "unequivocally affirm or deny the use of such surveillance." United States v. Gardner, 611 F.2d 770, 774 (9th Cir. 1980); United States v. See, 505 F.2d 845, 855-856 (9th Cir. 1974), cert. denied, 420 U.S. 992, 95 S.Ct. 1428, 43 L.Ed.2d 673. United States v. Alter, 482 F.2d 1016, 1026-1027 (9th Cir. 1973). Because this could place an awesome burden on the government to respond to frivolous claims, we have established specific requirements for the defendant to satisfy in order to make out a colorable claim. See, supra, 505 F.2d at 856.5 In addition, the "specificity of the prosecution's denial and the comprehensiveness of the search on which the denial is predicated must be measured against the specificity of the allegations of unlawful electronic surveillance and the strength of the support for those allegations." Gardner, supra, 611 F.2d at 774. And finally, the task of striking a balance between "the conflicting and sensitive interests at stake" when this type of question arises, "properly lies with the district court." Alter, supra, 482 F.2d at 1026.
13

In the supplemental affidavit submitted by Perluss' counsel, she stated that on March 19, 1979, she held a conference with Perluss between eleven and noon. Before, during and after the conference, her cousin was in her house and used her phone. Her cousin informed her that the use of the phone was normal before and after the conference with Perluss. However, the use of the phone during the time of the conference "consistently had a conversation in the background between two persons." Based on the events related to her by her cousin, Perluss' attorney stated that she believed "there was an unauthorized, governmental interception of wire and/or oral communications during the attorney-client conference at her home on March 19, 1979, between the hours of eleven and noon."
14

The district court found that this affidavit raised a question of electronic surveillance and ordered the government to make a check of the relevant agencies to determine if there had been any illegal electronic surveillance. The government attorney who was in charge of the prosecution of this case responded with a declaration which denied any such electronic surveillance of Perluss or his attorney. The government attorney stated that he was unaware of any electronic surveillance except for that which had already been disclosed to the defendants (and was not at issue). Incorporated into the declaration was the summary of the Justice Department's search of the records from the different government agencies.6 The search disclosed no evidence that on March 19, 1979, either Perluss or his attorney was subjected to surveillance by electronic, mechanical, or other reception device. And lastly, the government offered the statement by the agent who was in charge of the investigation into this case. The agent stated unequivocally that at no time was any type of wiretap or area bug ever used during the investigation of the case. The only electronic surveillance which had been utilized involved the use of body recorders worn by the undercover agents during their meetings with the defendants, and the undercover agents' recording of their telephone conversations with the defendants (as mentioned earlier, these had been disclosed and were not at issue).
15

We believe that the district court struck the proper balance between the conflicting and sensitive interests which were raised by the electronic surveillance question. Perluss' claim raised a colorable question. Although it may not have satisfied the detailed requirements of Alter, supra, the district court ordered the government to respond. After conducting searches of the different agency records, the government denied the claim. In addition, the two principal government officers who were involved in the case unequivocally denied any electronic surveillance as alleged by Perluss. While the government could have filed a more detailed denial, we believe that the one which was filed, when measured against Perluss' claim, provided a sufficient basis to support the district court's finding that there had been no electronic surveillance. It should be remembered that, as a practical matter, it is oftentimes difficult to prove a negative. See Weimerskirch v. C. I. R., 596 F.2d 358, 361 (9th Cir. 1979). We hold that the government's denial of electronic surveillance was adequate and no further proceedings are necessary on this question.

2. Outrageous Involvement
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The defendants argue that the involvement of the DEA agents in the criminal enterprise was so improper that it amounted to a violation of due process. This argument is based on the following sequence of events. Bloch initially "set up" Bachrach by having him meet undercover DEA agents. According to Bachrach, he only intended to purchase ET (a necessary ingredient for making LSD), and it was the DEA agents who suggested that they receive payment in LSD. Thereafter, Bachrach brought in Wylie and Perluss, who attempt to ride vicariously on the coattails of Bachrach's argument. The defendants claim that the agents were able to set up the different exchanges in order to add additional charges.
17

We have no trouble at all in rejecting all of the defendants' different phrasings of their due process arguments.
18

Initially, it should be noted the defendants cannot claim entrapment. An entrapment instruction was given to the jury. By convicting the defendants, the jury obviously rejected the entrapment defense and thereby found that the defendants had been predisposed to commit the crimes.
19

On appeal, the defendants rely on the close relative of the entrapment defense which may be referred to as the outrageous involvement defense.7 The Supreme Court has observed that due process may bar a conviction where the government's involvement in a criminal enterprise has become sufficiently outrageous and shocking to the universal sense of justice. See United States v. Russell, 411 U.S. 423, 431-432, 93 S.Ct. 1637, 1642-1643, 36 L.Ed.2d 366 (1973); Hampton v. United States, 425 U.S. 484, 495, 96 S.Ct. 1646, 1652, 48 L.Ed.2d 113 (1976) (Powell, J., concurring). This court has recognized that a criminal defendant may have a due process defense when the government's involvement has been sufficiently outrageous. United States v. McQuin, 612 F.2d 1193, 1196 (9th Cir. 1980), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 100 S.Ct. 1607, 63 L.Ed.2d 791; United States v. Prairie, 572 F.2d 1316, 1319 (9th Cir. 1978); United States v. Gonzalez, 539 F.2d 1238, 1239 (9th Cir. 1976); United States v. Gonzales-Benitez, 537 F.2d 1051, 1055 (9th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 923, 97 S.Ct. 323, 50 L.Ed.2d 291. Not only do we have no problem whatsoever in concluding that the government's involvement in this case was not outrageous enough to trigger the protection of the due process clause, but we do not see how the action of the undercover agents may be characterized as anything but good, solid undercover investigative work.8
20

First of all, it is well established that "the government may employ undercover tactics to infiltrate criminal ranks and may rely on paid informants in order to locate and arrest criminals." McQuin, supra, 612 F.2d at 1196; Prairie, supra, 572 F.2d at 1319. The mere fact that Bloch was a paid informant, and the two agents were operating undercover does not provide any support to the defendants' argument.
21

Bachrach's contention that the agents initiated the idea that LSD would be exchanged for ET also does not afford any support to the outrageousness claim. After all, Bachrach's predisposition toward the sale of LSD was abundantly clear in the record. And there is no indication that Bachrach even as much as hesitated at using LSD as the medium of exchange for the ET.
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Bachrach and Wylie make much of the series of transactions which were separately charged in the indictment. This does not create any problem in the present case. The agents were investigating a continuing large scale LSD manufacturing and distribution ring. In order to find as many of the participants as possible, it was entirely proper for the agents, given the posture of this case, to carry out a series of exchanges. Likewise, we can perceive nothing sinister in the United States Attorney's decision to charge the separate offenses. See United States v. Batchelder, 442 U.S. 114, 123-124, 99 S.Ct. 2198, 2203-2204, 60 L.Ed.2d 755 (1979); Bordenkircher v. Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 364, 98 S.Ct. 663, 668, 54 L.Ed.2d 604 (1978).9
23

And finally, the defendants argue that an instruction on outrageous involvement should have been submitted to the jury. It was entirely proper for the district court to deny this request. The question of the outrageous involvement of government agents is a question of law for the court. McQuin, supra, 612 F.2d at 1196-1197; Prairie, supra, 572 F.2d at 1319; Gonzalez, supra, 539 F.2d at 1240 n.1.10
24

We conclude that the trial court was correct in refusing to find, as a matter of law, outrageous involvement by the government agents.11 And, the defendants were not entitled to have a jury instruction on this question.

3. Sentences
25

The defendants make several broad sweeping arguments against the sentences which they received. As pointed out earlier, Bachrach was sentenced to fifteen years based on the three separate consecutive sentences; Wylie was sentenced to twenty years based on four separate consecutive sentences; and Perluss was sentenced to seven years based on two separate consecutive sentences. We find no merit to any of the defendants' contentions about the impropriety of their sentences.
26

Prior to our consideration of the defendants' arguments, it should be noted that a district judge has wide discretion in determining what sentence to impose. United States v. Tucker, 404 U.S. 443, 446-447, 92 S.Ct. 589, 591-592, 30 L.Ed.2d 592 (1972). As long as the sentence is within statutory limits, it is generally not subject to review on appeal. Id.
27

Bachrach says that common sense should tell the court that he, the "least culpable" member of the conspiracy, should not have been sentenced to eight more years than Perluss, the "most culpable" member of the conspiracy. Not only is there no legal support for this argument, but it is also refuted by the fact that Bachrach was charged and convicted on seven counts, whereas Perluss was only charged and convicted on two.
28

Both Bachrach and Wylie claim that they should not have received consecutive sentences. We find nothing wrong with the use of consecutive sentences to punish Bachrach and Wylie. After all, consecutive sentences can be imposed after convictions for conspiracy and the underlying substantive offense. Iannelli v. United States, 420 U.S. 770, 777-778, 95 S.Ct. 1284, 1289-1290, 43 L.Ed.2d 616 (1975); United States v. Kearney, 560 F.2d 1358, 1365-1367 (9th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 971, 98 S.Ct. 522, 54 L.Ed.2d 460. In addition, consecutive sentences can be imposed for the separate commission of the same crime. See United States v. Long, 524 F.2d 660, 661-662 (9th Cir. 1975); United States v. Taxe, 572 F.2d 216, 217 (9th Cir. 1978), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 918, 98 S.Ct. 2265, 56 L.Ed.2d 759. As with most areas of sentencing, the use of consecutive sentences lies within the discretion of the district court. United States v. Dubrofsky, 581 F.2d 208, 214 (9th Cir. 1978). Neither Bachrach nor Wylie is able to show any reason why these rules should be departed from in their cases.
29

Wylie correctly states that the maximum sentence for first offenders (like himself) under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B) is five years. Based on this, Wylie argues that he should have only been sentenced to a total of five, rather than twenty years. We disagree. Wylie was charged and convicted with six separate offenses punishable under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B). There is nothing in either the language of the statute or the legislative history which can be read in support of Wylie's argument that the maximum sentence for one violation of the statute also serves as the maximum sentence when there are five other separate violations of the same statute. See, e. g., United States v. Valot, 481 F.2d 22, 25-26 (2d Cir. 1973); Dubrofsky, supra, 581 F.2d at 213. Therefore, the maximum sentence which Wylie could have received for his six separate convictions under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B) was six consecutive five-year terms, or a total of thirty years.
30

In addition, Wylie claims that his sentence to twenty years amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Since Wylie's sentence was within the statutory maximum, it was not cruel and unusual. United States v. Washington, 578 F.2d 256, 258 (9th Cir. 1978); see, e. g., Rummel v. Estelle, --- U.S. ----, 100 S.Ct. 1133, 63 L.Ed.2d 382 (1980).
31

Unlike Bachrach and Wylie, Perluss was only charged with the one conspiracy count (Count 1) and the one distribution count (Count 6). He concedes that these offenses involve separate crimes. Nevertheless, he argues that his consecutive sentences of four years on the conspiracy count and three years on the distribution count were constitutionally improper because of an instruction which was given to the jury. We recognize that there is a certain amount of logical appeal to Perluss' argument, but nevertheless reject it.12
32

There was no evidence linking Perluss to the distribution charge in Count 6. Because of this, the court gave the Pinkerton instruction at the government's request.13 This instruction told the jury that as long as they found Perluss guilty of the conspiracy charged in Count 1, then he could also be convicted of the substantive distribution charge in Count 6 if one of Perluss' fellow conspirators had committed that offense. For the prosecution to prove its case against Perluss on the distribution charge, it only had to show the statutory elements of the conspiracy charge plus one additional element, that is, that one of the other co-conspirators had actually distributed the LSD as charged in Count 6.
33

The Double Jeopardy Clause protects against multiple punishments for the same offense. Simpson v. United States, 435 U.S. 6, 11 n.5, 98 S.Ct. 909, 912 n.5, 55 L.Ed.2d 70 (1978); North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 717, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 2076, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969). Since Perluss received consecutive sentences for the conspiracy conviction and the distribution conviction, he claims that he is receiving double punishment for the same offense.
34

The basic premise to Perluss' argument is that the conspiracy charge merged or became the same offense with the distribution charge after the Pinkerton instruction was given. In support of this premise, he relies upon the Blockburger test. Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299, 52 S.Ct. 180, 76 L.Ed. 306 (1932). Where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test which is applied for determining whether there are two offenses or only one turns on "whether each provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not." Id. at 304, 52 S.Ct. at 182. The "proof of a fact" referred to under this test does not simply relate to whether the same evidence is used at trial to prove the two charges.14 Instead, the test focuses on the statutory elements of the different offenses. United States v. Ohlson, 552 F.2d 1347, 1349-1350 (9th Cir. 1977).
35

As a general rule, a substantive charge, and conspiracy charge based on the substantive charge, pass muster under the Blockburger test and retain their separateness. Iannelli, supra, 420 U.S. at 785 n.17, 95 S.Ct. at 1293 n.17; Kearney, supra, 560 F.2d 1365-1367. The reason for this is because a requirement for a conspiracy conviction is proof of an agreement which is not necessary to prove an underlying substantive count. Kearney, supra, 560 F.2d at 1367. And, conviction on the substantive count will require the consummation of the crime, which, of course, is not essential for completing the crime of conspiracy. Id.
36

However, in this case, this distinction between the two offenses no longer holds true because of the Pinkerton instruction. The jury was told that in order for Perluss to be found guilty of the distribution charge, they only needed to find him guilty of the conspiracy charge and find that a co-conspirator had undertaken the actual distribution charged in Count 6. The agreement necessary to prove the conspiracy charge was also necessary to prove the distribution charge. Because this instruction was given, the conspiracy charge no longer required proof of an element that the distribution charge did not. Therefore, under Blockburger, Perluss claims that he should not have received consecutive sentences for this had the effect of punishing him twice for the same offense.
37

Although we acknowledge the logic to Perluss' reasoning, nevertheless, the preceding discussion does not serve as a basis for granting any relief to him because it is based on the erroneous assumption that the Blockburger test, when applied to consecutive sentences, states a rule of constitutional dimensions, which it in fact does not. The test articulated in Blockburger is merely a method for ascertaining the congressional intent to impose separate punishment for multiple offenses which arise during the course of a single act or transaction. Iannelli, supra, 420 U.S. at 785 n.17, 95 S.Ct. at 1293 n.17.
38

The question of whether a court may constitutionally impose multiple punishments is resolved by determining what punishment the legislative branch has authorized. Whalen v. United States, --- U.S. ----, ----, 100 S.Ct. 1432, 1436, 63 L.Ed.2d 715, 721 (1980). The role of the Double Jeopardy Clause, where consecutive sentences are imposed at a single criminal trial, "is limited to assuring that the court does not exceed its legislative authorization by imposing multiple punishments for the same offense." Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161, 165, 97 S.Ct. 2221, 2225, 53 L.Ed.2d 187 (1977). And so, the dispositive question in resolving Perluss' challenge is whether Congress authorized cumulative punishments for the conspiracy and distribution offenses. See Whalen, supra, --- U.S. at ----, 100 S.Ct. at 1436, 63 L.Ed.2d at 722.
39

Both of the statutes under which Perluss was convicted (21 U.S.C. § 846, and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)) were part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. 21 U.S.C. §§ 801, et seq. We find nothing in either the Act or the legislative history which would indicate that Congress intended to depart from the general rule that courts can impose separate sentences for the conspiracy to commit an offense and the accomplishment of the substantive offense itself. See H.R.Rep. No. 91-1444, 91st Cong., 2d Sess., reprinted in 3 (1970) U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News, p. 4566. In fact, we agree with the Second Circuit when it made the following observation:
40

"The structure and legislative history of the drug abuse act provide persuasive evidence that, because of the special dangers which conspiracies to distribute controlled drugs pose to society, Congress did intend that a conspiracy to violate the Act should constitute a separate crime in addition to the substantive offense."
41

United States v. Bommarito, 524 F.2d 140, 143-144 (2d Cir. 1975); accord Curtis v. United States, 546 F.2d 1188, 1190 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 908, 97 S.Ct. 1705, 52 L.Ed.2d 393. In addition, this court has found that Congress intended to impose dual punishments for conspiracies which violate two different sections of this same Act. United States v. Marotta, 518 F.2d 681, 685 (9th Cir. 1975) (defendant was convicted for conspiring to distribute marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 846 and conspiring to import the same marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 963).
42

Based on the preceding, we conclude that Congress did intend to allow the courts to impose consecutive sentences for conspiracy (21 U.S.C. § 846), and for substantive offenses (21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)), even when the proof necessary to obtain a conviction for the former was necessary to obtain a conviction for the latter offense.15 Because we make this finding, we do not apply the Blockburger test for ascertaining the legislative intent. The consecutive sentences imposed upon Perluss were therefore proper.

III. THE BIFULCO PROBLEM
43

After argument and submission of these appeals, the Supreme Court decided Bifulco v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 100 S.Ct. 2247, 64 L.Ed.2d --- (1980). The sentences imposed upon Bachrach, Wylie and Perluss on Count I, the conspiracy count, carried a special parole term of five years. Under Bifulco, the district court was without power to impose the special parole term on Count I. This issue was not raised by any defendant in this case. Nevertheless, we recognize the sentencing defect and vacate the special parole term imposed on each defendant under Count I.

IV. CONCLUSION
44

The defendants were participants in a large business enterprise which manufactured and distributed LSD. In order to prevent such business operations from flourishing, a limited amount of government infiltration through undercover agents must be tolerated. While the penalties which were imposed on the defendants may have been severe, they were amply justified by the large scale nature of the illegal enterprise and the roles performed by the respective defendants.
45

The convictions of the defendants are AFFIRMED. The special parole term imposed on each defendant under Count I is VACATED.
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The Honorable Homer Thornberry, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, sitting by designation
1

Goetz was also tried and convicted of the charges against him for his role in the conspiracy. Prior to sentencing, he disappeared. He therefore is not a party to this appeal
2

Bachrach was sentenced as follows:

Count 1 five years plus special parole term of five years;

Count 2 three years plus special parole term of two years, concurrent to Count 1;

Count 3 five years plus special parole term of two years, consecutive to Count 1;

Count 4 four years plus special parole term of two years, concurrent to Count 3;

Count 5 five years plus special parole term of two years, consecutive to Count 3;

Count 6 five years plus special parole term of two years, concurrent to Count 5;

Count 7 two years, concurrent to Count 5.
3

Wylie was sentenced as follows:

Count 1 five years plus special parole term of five years;

Count 2 three years plus special parole term of three years, concurrent to Count 1;

Count 3 five years plus special parole term of five years, consecutive to Count 1;

Count 4 four years plus special parole term of four years, concurrent to Count 3;

Count 5 five years plus special parole term of five years, consecutive to Count 3;

Count 6 five years plus special parole term of five years, consecutive to Count 5;

Count 7 two years, concurrent to Count 6.
4

Perluss was sentenced as follows:

Count 1 four years plus five-year special parole term;

Count 6 three years plus five-year special parole term, consecutive to Count 1.
5

In Alter, supra, this court said that in order to make out a prima facie issue of electronic surveillance, the affidavits or other evidence must reveal:

(1) the specific facts which reasonably lead the affiant to believe that named counsel for the (defendant) has been subjected to electronic surveillance;

(2) the dates of such suspected surveillance;

(3) the outside dates of representation of the (defendant) by the lawyer during the period of surveillance;

(4) the identity of the person(s) . . . with whom the lawyer . . . was communicating at the time the claimed surveillance took place; and

(5) facts showing some connection between possible electronic surveillance and the (defendant) who asserts the claim or the (trial) in which the (defendant) is involved.

See Alter, supra, 482 F.2d at 1026.
6

The records of the following agencies were searched, and no evidence was found to support Perluss' claim of electronic surveillance: Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms; United States Customs Service; Drug Enforcement Administration; United States Postal Service; United States Secret Service; Internal Revenue Service; Central Intelligence Agency; and the National Security Agency
7

The defendants refer to this as "governmental creative activity," which is a mischaracterization of the defense upon which they seek to rely. The decisions which established this defense focus on the outrageousness of the governmental agents' involvement in the criminal activity. Any consideration of the creativity exercised by the government agents is secondary to the consideration of the outrageousness of their involvement
8

As the Supreme Court said in Russell, supra :

"The illicit manufacture of drugs is not a sporadic, isolated criminal incident, but a continuing, though illegal, business enterprise. In order to obtain convictions for illegally manufacturing drugs, the gathering of evidence of past unlawful conduct frequently proves to be an all but impossible task. Thus in drug-related offenses law enforcement personnel have turned to one of the only practicable means of detection: the infiltration of drug rings and a limited participation in their unlawful present practices. Such infiltration is a recognized and permissible means of investigation; if that be so, then the supply of some item of value that the drug ring requires must, as a general rule, also be permissible. For an agent will not be taken into the confidence of the illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them. Law enforcement tactics such as this can hardly be said to violate "fundamental fairness" or " shocking to the universal sense of justice" . . . ." (citations omitted)

411 U.S. at 432, 93 S.Ct. at 1643.
9

Justice Stewart made the following observation about the discretion of prosecutors in deciding what charges to file and proceed upon:

"In our system, so long as the prosecutor has probable cause to believe that the accused committed an offense defined by statute, the decision whether or not to prosecute, and what charge to file or bring before a grand jury, generally rests entirely in his discretion. Within the limits set by the legislature's constitutionally valid definition of chargeable offenses, 'the conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement is not itself a federal constitutional violation' so long as 'the selection was (not) deliberately based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification.' " (citations and footnotes omitted)

Bordenkircher, supra, 434 U.S. at 364, 98 S.Ct. at 668-669.
10

Perluss recognizes that Prairie, supra, and Gonzalez, supra, represent the law of this circuit and as such are binding on this panel. Because of this, Perluss suggests that the question of whether such an instruction ought to be submitted to the jury should be heard by this court sitting en banc. Fed.R.App.P. 35(a) explains that en banc hearings are disfavored and generally are only ordered when there is (1) an intracircuit conflict, or (2) a question of exceptional importance. There is no conflict within this circuit, nor is this a question of exceptional importance. We therefore decline to recommend that the full court consider the appropriateness of an en banc hearing on this question
11

The defendants place great reliance upon this court's opinion in Greene v. United States, 454 F.2d 783 (9th Cir. 1971), and the Third Circuit's opinion in United States v. Twigg, 588 F.2d 373 (3d Cir. 1978). The government's minimal involvement in the present case falls far short of the intolerable overreaching which was condemned in those two decisions. Moreover, under the unique circumstances of Greene, supra, "it was established that the Government, through its agent, directly and continuously involved itself in the creation and maintenance of the criminal operations." United States v. Granger, 475 F.2d 1022, 1024 (9th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 412 U.S. 929, 93 S.Ct. 2757, 37 L.Ed.2d 157. There was no such involvement here
12

Perluss also suggested in his opening brief that this issue should be considered by the court sitting en banc. We decline to follow his suggestion. See n.10 supra
13

This instruction derived its name from Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489 (1946), where its use was approved by the Supreme Court. The court below instructed the jury as follows:

"Now, if you find that a particular defendant is guilty of conspiracy as charged in Count One, you may also find that defendant guilty of a substantive offense as charged in any other count of the indictment, provided that you find that the essential elements of that count as defined in these instructions have been established beyond reasonable doubt, and provided that you also find beyond reasonable doubt,

"First, that the offense defined in the substantive count was committed pursuant to the conspiracy, and

"Second, that the particular defendant was a member of the conspiracy at the time the substantive offense was committed.

"Under the conditions just defined, a defendant may be guilty of a substantive count even though he did not participate in the acts constituting the offense as defined in the substantive count.

"The reason for this is that a co-conspirator committing a substantive offense pursuant to a conspiracy is held to be the agent of the other conspirators."

This followed the pattern instruction. 2 Devitt & Blackmar, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (West 1977) § 27.17.
14

Perluss asked us to follow the same evidence test of United States v. Austin, 529 F.2d 559 (6th Cir. 1976). This court has repudiated this approach on a previous occasion. Kearney, supra, 560 F.2d at 1365-1367
15

Had we applied the Blockburger test, it is likely that we would have upheld Perluss' consecutive sentences anyway

Perluss asserted that the issue he raised was one of first impression. Since the government chose to gloss over the question in its brief, we presume that it did not find any cases which involved the interface between the Blockburger test and the Pinkerton instruction when consecutive punishment is imposed. This panel is aware of two decisions which have inferentially involved this question.

In United States v. Larkin, 605 F.2d 1360, 1363-1369 (5th Cir. 1979), the Fifth Circuit made note of the potential problem which arose when the Pinkerton instruction was given, but then did not find it necessary to address the question.

And the decision which is most on point, had we addressed the problem presented by the interface between the Pinkerton instruction and the Blockburger test, is the Pinkerton decision itself. 328 U.S. at 640, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489. In Pinkerton, Daniel was found to have been a member of the conspiracy and therefore the jury found him guilty on the conspiracy count. However, since he had been incarcerated during the time of the acts which formed the basis for the substantive charges, the only way that the jury could have found him guilty was based on the aforementioned instruction. See n.13, supra. Daniel had been sentenced on the substantive counts to imprisonment for thirty months and a fine of $1,000. On the conspiracy count, Daniel had received a two year sentence (running concurrently with the thirty month sentence) plus a $500 fine. It might be said that since Daniel received concurrent sentences, the Pinkerton decision did not involve the same problem with which we are faced here where Perluss received consecutive sentences. However, fines "are treated in the same way as prison sentences for purposes of double jeopardy and multiple punishment analysis." Jeffers v. United States, 432 U.S. 137, 155, 97 S.Ct. 2207, 2218, 53 L.Ed.2d 168 (1977). Since Daniel received separate fines in Pinkerton, the Supreme Court was implicitly faced with the same question as Perluss raises in the present case. By affirming Daniel's convictions and his punishment, the Court impliedly approved the use of consecutive punishment in those cases where the Pinkerton instruction is given.


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50th anniversary of Norman M. Yoder admitting that he made up the "Kids stare at the sun while on LSD" story, today.  But not before seemingly every newspaper in the country reported it in order to demonize LSD.











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Happy would-be 115th Birthday Cary Grant.  Also, 40th anniversary of the Peter Wylie, Sheldon Perluss and David Bachrach LSD lab bust. 












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Happy would-be 115th Birthday Cary Grant.  Also, 40th anniversary of the Peter Wylie, Sheldon Perluss and David Bachrach LSD lab bust. 















Learyfan that wasn't a bust.. that was just turning LSD crystal into tablets/blotter/gel tabs.  But wowza 25g of LSD is quite a bit.  Fuck those undercover federal agents.. I've always felt that's so unfair that they get to lie about what they do in order to get people to do things that can cause them to be arrested.

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Learyfan that wasn't a bust.. that was just turning LSD crystal into tablets/blotter/gel tabs.  But wowza 25g of LSD is quite a bit. 




I can't tell 100% Typewriter, but it sounds like you're saying that this wasn't an LSD lab bust, but rather a tabletting facility. I believe that it was a full fledged lab, based off of the court preceedings. Or maybe that's not what you're saying. You'll have to clarify.



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On November 24, 1978, Bachrach flew to San Francisco and met two undercover DEA agents who posed as Bloch's "source." Bachrach told the agents that he wanted to obtain one-half to one full kilogram of ET each month for a clandestine LSD lab in Berkeley. In turn, the agents explained to Bachrach that they would supply him with ET in exchange for LSD. Three days later, Bachrach met with the DEA agents and gave them 400 units of LSD, as well as a price list of the different types of LSD which could be supplied. (The list was in the defendant Wylie's handwriting.)
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On November 30, Bachrach and Wylie both met with the DEA agents and Wylie bragged about the size of the LSD operation. The parties agreed to exchange 30,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The next meeting was on December 1, at which time Bachrach gave 30,000 units of LSD to the agents for a bottle of ET pursuant to the earlier agreement.
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This was followed by Bachrach's sale of 2,000 tablets of LSD to the agents on December 7 in exchange for $900. A week later, Bachrach gave the agents a shopping list (handwritten by Wylie) of additional chemicals which were needed. These chemicals were given to Bachrach on January 2, 1979. Bachrach turned these chemicals over to Donald Goetz1 the next day. Goetz then gave them to Wylie. In turn, Wylie transferred the chemicals to Perluss on the following day.
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Meanwhile, on January 3, Bachrach and Wylie exchanged 54,000 units of LSD for 100 grams of ET. The final exchange took place on January 18 when Bachrach gave 226,400 units of LSD to the agents in exchange for more ET. The defendants were all arrested on January 18. The residence of Perluss was searched and a number of chemicals and formulas used for manufacturing LSD were found.


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55th anniversary of that piece of shit Norman M. Yoder admitting that he made up the "LSD users stare at sun and go blind" story. But the damage had been done. It's an urban legend that persists to this day.








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