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

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Kemp and Solomon had set up a distribution network and began producing LSD again, setting up various laboratories in mid and west Wales- Their microdots, which became a form of ‘brand’, would prove a global hit, with the lab producing hundreds of thousands of LSD microdots a year ending up as far afield as Canada and Australia Would he have been a different person had he not become a keen and prolific acid user? We’ll never know. Smiles thinks that acid helped wash away the bad experiences and conditioning of his childhood and I think that is definitely the case.

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Later, after a police tip-off in October, a further 1.3kg of LSD crystal was discovered, buried beneath Kemp and Botts kitchen. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the UDV, a Christian religious group that uses ayahuasca as its sacrament, could import the drink to the United States. In the 1970s, it’s estimated that 60% of the world’s LSD came from one place – Wales. Acid Dream is the story of the Microdot Gang, a rag tag group of chemists, dealers, businessmen and hippy dreamers who attempted to start a revolution of the mind from a Welsh farmhouse in Tregaron.

They were educated people who were either chemists, doctors, accountants and had used their extreme talents for a criminal enterprise. Ayelet Waldman’s A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life waspublished. While Dai Rees was grappling with the drug issues of west Wales in the early 70s, Richard Kemp had stumbled upon a method of creating the purest LSD the world had ever seen.

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Akers, Brian, et. al. A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms in Economic Botany, 65(2), 2011, pp. 121-128 When the Range Rover was impounded and stripped fragments of paper were found which when pieced together revealed the words hydrazine hydrate – a chemical involved in the production of LSD. R. Gordon Wasson’s Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality was published. He contended that Soma was Amanita muscaria. Alan Watts was invited to test the mystical qualities of 100 µg of LSD-25 by Dr. Keith Ditman of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at UCLA Medical School. Watts stated, “ Indeed, my first experiment with LSD-25 was not mystical.” In Reno, Nevada, Darrell Lemaire began to research, synthesize and bioassay psychoactive compounds that he hoped would be useful as adjuncts to psychotherapy. He set up his lab in an underground chamber that he created by using dynamite to blast a tunnel into the volcanic plug upon which his house was built.Operation Julie was one of the biggest drugs investigations the world has ever seen. It involved 800 officers drawn from 11 police forces who went undercover for more than a year to break an LSD ring that spread through 100 countries, provided 60% of global supply and was worth – in today’s money – half a billion pounds. Julius Axelrod of the National Institutes of Health discovered that DMT occurs naturally in human brain tissue. The results of the first clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of social anxiety werepublished in Psychopharmacology. The12 participantswere adults on the autism spectrum, a population that commonly experiences severe social anxiety. Sponsored by MAPS, the research was conducted by Charles Grob, M.D., and Alicia Danforth, Ph.D., at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. 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. The context of rural Wales wasimportant. This was, after all, a pivotal location in the history of psychedelic counter-culture. With cheap property and remote countryside Powys and Ceredigion were dream destinations for those seeking an alternative lifestyle in the 1960s and 1970s. We drew in celebrity hippies too.