The Microdot Gang: The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World

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She accepted that some people had expressed concern about the company producing a play that focused on criminal activity. “But I think most local people are excited. Everyone has a story about Operation Julie. I spoke to someone the other day who said they were conceived on Julie LSD. Other people tell the tale of Bob Dylan coming here, though I haven’t met anyone who actually saw him.” Richard Alpert traveled to India where he met the spiritual teacher, Neem Karoli Baba. Under his guru’s guidance, he studied yoga and meditation and received the name Ram Dass, or “servant of God.” A popular article on espionage by J. Edgar Hoover in the Reader's Digest in 1946 attributed invention of microdots to "the famous Professor Zapp at the Technical University Dresden". [6] However, there never was a Professor Zapp at that university and microdot historian William White has denounced Hoover's article as a "concoction of semitruths and overt disinformation". Fairbanks, Dan Bross, KUAC - (28 November 2015). "North Pole police launch new anti-theft program" . Retrieved 17 August 2018. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Tabs bearing their logo were recovered as far away as Australia. James Wyllie tells the extraordinary story of how a middle-aged American academic, two idealistic British students, a public school cad and an American hustler formed the Microdot Gang and created an acid production line designed to turn on the world.

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In the 1970s it's estimated that around 60% of the world's LSD came from one place: Wales. This is the story of the Microdot Gang - a rag tag group of chemists, dealers, businessmen and hippy dreamers. They believed that acid had the power to save the world. Denis Kelly and the Clearlight group set up a lab in Santa Cruz, California and began manufacturing small quantities of 250 μg Clearlight LSD. He produced it in the form of tiny machine-cut squares of clear hard gelatin. They were educated people who were either chemists, doctors, accountants and had used their extreme talents for a criminal enterprise.Presented by Hollywood actor Rhys Ifans, Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot is the story of a real-life Breaking Bad, set in rural Wales. It was pure coincidence one afternoon when the control room got in touch to say there had been a fatal accident involving a red Range Rover and a Mini estate,” Don recalled. “It had been a terrific crash, head-on, and in the passenger seat of the Mini there was a deceased young lady, her husband was alongside her and it was a very serious accident.” This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In Los Angeles, Michael Lewis Green founded Bio-Dyne Industries as a legitimate chemical company. It served as a front for his LSD manufacturing lab. From April 1969 to June 1974, 70 kilograms of ergotamine tartrate were delivered to the laboratory. That amount of ergotamine tartrate could have produced 14 kilograms of LSD crystal.

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History Makers: Female Writers Dominate the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ShortlistThe Stones and Jimi Hendrix liked a wild Welsh weekend, and there are apocryphal anecdotes of Bob Dylan staying for six weeks and enjoying the mellifluous poetry of Welsh-speaking farmers’ conversations. Episode four of the LSD saga about an attempt to spark a revolution of the mind, from a Welsh farmhouse. As the police surveillance operation grows, the noose tightens around Richard and Christine and their standards begin to slip. Can they hold onto the ‘good life’ they’ve built in Wales? On 26 March 1977, after 13 months of surveillance, Operation Julie officers swooped on 87 homes in Wales and England, including Fielding's home in Binfield Heath. [5] The gang leaders were caught and a total of 120 suspects were arrested. New Sports Biographies and Autobiographies: Gift a Book for the Sports Fan In Your Life this Christmas

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The biggest drug bust in British history occurred in the early hours of 25 March 1977: 800 officers made 120 arrests and seized a staggering 6,000,000 tabs of LSD. The raids focused on two acid manufacturing centres: one hidden in an isolated farmhouse in deepest Wales, the other in a suburban house on a leafy residential street in south-west London. In the 1970s it’s estimated that around 60% of the world’s LSD came from one place: Wales. This is the story of the Microdot Gang - a rag tag group of chemists, dealers, businessmen and hippy dreamers. They believed that acid had the power to save the world. In 1975, Todd and Fielding changed roles. Todd took over the tabletting, and Fielding ran the distribution network, supplying Russell Spencely who in turn supplied Alston Hughes (known as 'Smiles'). From Hughes, the LSD was distributed to a number of wholesale dealers in Wales and Birmingham.Operation Julie: Forty years since mid Wales LSD bust". BBC News. 10 April 2016 . Retrieved 2 October 2016.