you better be sure before you go accusing someone of something
Mr President
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
In December 1988, a neighbor reported a strange chemical odor coming
from an architectural shop at a Mountain View, California industrial
park. Agents arrived to find 200,000 doses of LSD and found William
Pickard inside. Pickard was charged with manufacturing LSD and served
five years in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard#LSD_Manufacturing
His first arrest for manufacturing LSD came on December 28, 1988 in
Mountain View, California. The laboratory was contained inside a
trailer that had been moved into a warehouse. It contained state-of-
the-art equipment, including a roto-evaporator, heating mantles and a
pill press. He was producing kilogram quantities of LSD and putting
them onto windowpane, microdot, and blotter forms
Although Clyde Apperson was convicted of the same charges as Pickard,
he did not actually manufacture LSD. He was Pickard's partner and was
a skilled chemist, but his role was mainly in the setup and take-down
of the laboratory. If he was setting up the lab in a brand new
location he was paid $100,000. For take-downs he was paid $50,000.
Take-downs were needed sometimes when a landlord may wish to come look
at the property or other such reasons. Apperson did however
manufacture synthetic mescaline, a very complex drug to produce. When
authorities searched his Sunnyvale, California home they found five
drums of precursor chemicals needed to manufacture synthetic mescaline.
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Mr President
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sand
Sand's San Francisco Lab was operational by July 1967. Sand wanted to
make LSD but was lacking the necessary precursors. Owsley had given
him a formula for STP and would tablet Sand's product from his own lab
in Orinda.
In December 1968 Sand purchased a farmhouse in Windsor, California, at
that time a small town in rural Sonoma County. There he and Tim
Scully, another psychedelic chemist, set up a large LSD lab. Scully
and Sand produced over 3.6 million tablets of LSD, which was
distributed under the name "Orange Sunshine".
Sand was prosecuted for LSD manufacture following a lengthy
investigation by federal narcotics agents in the early 1970s. He was
found guilty and sentenced, in 1976, to 15 years in a federal
penitentiary.
In September 1996, Sand surfaced as a drug suspect in Vancouver,
British Columbia. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he
was living under the name David Roy Shepard, and his true identity was
not discovered until his fingerprints were sent to the FBI lab in
Washington, D.C., nearly two months after his arrest. The RCMP says
Sand was one of seven people who were operating one of the largest LSD
labs in North American history, a facility near Port Coquitlam,
British Columbia, that produced enough acid to dose every man, woman
and child in Canada 1.5 times.
Sand served prison time in Canada and the United States from 1996 to
2000 for the manufacture of psychedelic drugs including, but not
limited to, MDMA, MDA, DMT, LSD, and mescaline. He also produced an
analog of LSD known as lysergic acid sec-butylamide. Sand was
sentenced to nine years in Canada but was returned to the United
States as he was still living underground due to charges of LSD
production from the early 70's. Nicholas Sand is credited with the
largest poly-drug clandestine laboratory to be encountered in Canada.
His laboratory was secreted in an industrial complex in a suburb of
Vancouver, British Columbia. His lab was of a level of sophistication
never encountered before by police investigators or clandestine lab
specialists from Health Canada. Sand worked diligently in his lab
several months each summer and resided in Mexico for the rest of the
year. For 1995, he estimated a net income of 1.8 million dollars for
three months of work.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie
Operation Julie was a UK police investigation into the production of
LSD by two drug rings during the mid-1970s. The operation, involving
11 police forces over a two-and-a-half year period, resulted in the
break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the
world. It culminated in 1976 in 6 million 'tabs' of LSD (worth a then
£100 million) being seized, 120 people arrested in the UK and France
and over £800,000 discovered in Swiss bank accounts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie#Background
The principal suspects were Dr. Richard Hilary Kemp, a chemist and
graduate of the University of St Andrews. and his partner Christine
Bott. They lived at Penlleinau, two miles from Tregaron and both were
influenced by the teachings of Timothy Leary and the Brotherhood of
Eternal Love.
Distribution of the LSD was the responsibility Alston Frederick Hughes
(known as Smiles) and Paul Healy (know as Buzz) who lived in Llanddewi
Brefi. Dyfed-Powys Police became suspicious about the low price of LSD
in their region as well as the amount of LSD being seized [3] compared
to the rest of the UK and got in touch with Detective Inspector Dick
Lee of the Thames Valley Drug Squad.
Dick Lee asked Dyfed-Powys Police to raid Alston Hughes house in
Llanddewi Brefi. However, Lee was late for the raid and phoned the
local police to pass on a message to the local police. His call was
taken by the wife of the local policeman who after being told of the
urgency of the call, promptly went to Alston Hughes house to ask if
her husband was there. This was before the raid and Hughes took
advantage of this to remove any drugs in his home.
In April 1975 Kemp’s red Range Rover was involved in a fatal accident
with a car near Machynlleth, a passenger in the other car being
killed. Kemp was known to DI Lee as a possible suspect in the drug’s
trade and when police searched his car they found six pieces of paper
which after being reconstructed spelt hydrazine hydrate - a key
ingredient in the manufacture of LSD. This crucial lead gave police
their first vital clue into the drug ring operating in west Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie#Operation_Julie
The discovery in Kemp’s car prompted the establishment of Britain's
first combined drug busting operation lead by Dick Lee. On February
17, 1976 a meeting at Brecon involved a number of chief constables and
senior drug squad officers formed a multiforce operation. This was the
beginning of Operation Julie.[4]
In April 1976, a selection of 28 undercover drug squad officers from
10 police forces were chosen and sent to Devizes in Wiltshire where
they were trained to go undercover as hippies in Wales. In May 1976,
the undercover police moved into a farmhouse in Bronwydd overlooking
Kemp's cottage.[5] Initially locals took them for birdwatchers but as
the undercover operation progressed from weeks into months, female
officers were added. The first name of one of these surveillance
officers, Police Sergeant Julie Taylor, was used as the operation’s
code name.
Surveillance of Kemp noted his regular 50-mile commutes between his
home in Tregaron and Plas Llysyn, an old mansion owned by an American
friend Paul Joseph Arnaboldi, in Carno near Llanidloes. The mansion
was watched by police from an old caravan and people arriving were
monitored. Lee instructed police to break-in to the mansion. In the
cellar police took water samples which chemically matched LSD samples
the police had.
Kemp and Bott’s home was now put under 24 hour surveillance and
listening devices installed. As a direct result of this a drug/cash
handover was overheard that was to take place at the Ram Inn in Cwmann
between Alston Hughes and a Russell Spenceley. The meeting saw a
package of 50 thousand microdots exchanged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie#London_Connection
In October, 1976 a police team based at RAF Hendon monitored a house
(first from a van, then from a house overlooking the property) in
Seymour Road, Hampton Wick. This was an LSD lab run by Henry Barclay
Todd and Andrew Munro, an inorganic chemist. Glass utensils used in
this lab had been secretly marked by police at the factory that
produced them in Yorkshire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie#Raids.2C_arrests_and_trial
On March 26, 1977, after 13 months of surveillance, Operation Julie
officers swooped on 87 homes in England and Wales. The gang leaders
were caught and a total of 120 suspects were arrested. At Kemp's home
a package containing £11,000 was found as well LSD crystals and
tableting equipment. At Carno, lab equipment was dug out of a well. A
further raid in the Dordogne region in France located documents that
detailed and proved the LSD business had been immense. Various details
of French and Swiss accounts were found as well as share certificates.
On December 1, 1977, officers researched Kemp's cottage and dug up a
large plastic box that contained 1.3kg of LSD crystal - enough to
create 13 million doses.
In 1978, 17 defendants appeared at Bristol Crown Court. It took a
month for the prosecution to deliver the incriminating evidence. Kemp
pleaded guilty and received 13 years in jail, as did Todd. Bott got 9
year and Hughes 8 years. Paul Healy was found not to have been
involved in the LSD distribution but was sentenced to 12 months for
possession of cannabis. In total the 17 defendants received a combined
170 years in jail.[6]
After seizure it was estimated the cost of LSD tabs rose from a £1 to
£5, and that Operation Julie had removed 90% of LSD from British
market. It is thought that LSD produced by the two labs had been
exported to over 100 countries. In total 13 million tabs worth a then
100 million pounds were discovered and destroyed.