This has been baffling me for days: "ACID"

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Right now, in the world, where is acid being made, who is making it?
I've read the process of making LSD-25 and it's very tricky to do (it seems), so I'm wondering who right now is making it, what type of people they are (scientists, clever regular guys, etc.) and where they're making it (country and the location, like a kitchen or laboratory).

Anyone know where the LSD of today is coming from?

3 Sheets To The Wind Reviewed by 3 Sheets To The Wind on 12-08-2005. This has been baffling me for days: "ACID" Right now, in the world, where is acid being made, who is making it? I've read the process of making LSD-25 and it's very tricky to do (it seems), so I'm wondering who right now is making it, what type of people they are (scientists, clever regular guys, etc.) and where they're making it (country and the location, like a kitchen or laboratory). Anyone know where the LSD of today is coming from? Rating: 5

[Aristotle]

I was wondering this as well for the past week.

[Ganj]

crackheads. crackheads are distributing all LSD that comes your way and mine. you can thank the drug, crack for giving them such motivation to learn methods of extraction from everyday household material.

i know texas has some acid going around, now.

[chakruh]

from what I've gathered from a new documentary is that there is one Labratory in the world that is allowed to legally make LSD, i guess they are starting to look into the benefits of LSD on skitsophrenix and other mental disorders... that labratory is somewhere In California and they are conducting experiments on patients around California.

[Joy.Discovery]

the russian mafia?

[jermany]

Two Bay Area men have been arrested for allegedly running a massive LSD laboratory hidden inside a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Kansas.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents said their investigation showed that the lab, deep inside an old Atlas missile silo in rural Kansas, produced tens of millions of doses of LSD each month.

"They are predicting that this laboratory could have been supplying a third of the LSD in the United States and maybe the world," Shirley Armstead, a spokeswoman for the DEA office in St. Louis, told reporters after the arrests. "This particular laboratory is one of the biggest labs that has been seized in this country."

William Leonard Pickard, 55, of San Francisco, allegedly a longtime underground drug chemist, and Clyde Apperson, 45, of Mountain View, his alleged assistant, were each indicted on Nov. 9 by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kan., on one count of conspiracy to make and distribute LSD.

Pickard is in federal custody and Apperson was released on a $200,000 bond. They are scheduled for a Dec. 20 hearing on pretrial motions in U.S. District Court in Topeka, Kan. Their lawyers could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Reached at his home, Apperson declined to comment.

The purported conspiracy sounds like a take-off on Peter Seller's Cold War movie "Dr. Strangelove."

Atlas missiles were introduced in 1959, the nation's first intercontinental ballistic missile. Aimed at the Soviet Union, they carried powerful nuclear warheads and were stored horizontally on railways in underground concrete silos whose retractable roofs dotted the Midwest countryside.

The missiles were decommissioned in the mid-1960s, just as the hippie scene,

the peace movement and psychedelic drugs like LSD became popular with American youth. LSD trips were touted as a chemical path to cosmic enlightenment and "inner space."

According to a DEA agent's affidavit, Pickard and Apperson converted the former nuclear silos to underground acid laboratories and each month made about a kilogram of LSD, enough for 10 million doses.

The LSD factory was discovered when a third person involved in the ring became an informant and told DEA agents about it, according to the affidavit, which was filed in court as the basis for one of the searches. The third person, who is not named in the affidavit, allegedly helped Pickard and Apperson find places to set up their labs.

The lab had been based in another former missile silo near Salina, Kan. But in July the informant moved it to the Atlas missile silo his family had bought as government surplus in Wamego, Kan., a sparsely populated area about 30 miles northwest of Topeka, the affidavit says.

The informant allowed DEA agents to electronically monitor his phone calls with Pickard, as well as an Oct. 23 meeting about the LSD operation with Pickard at the Four Points Barcelo Sheraton Hotel in San Rafael, it says.

On Oct. 27, the informant took a DEA agent on a tour of the silo, and in November agents videotaped Pickard, Apperson and the informant at the lab. Pickard and Apperson decided to move the operation, the affidavit says.

The defendants were under surveillance and were arrested after they fled from Kansas Highway Patrol officers who pulled them over on Nov. 6 as they allegedly attempted to transport their LSD lab from Kansas to Aspen, Colo., in two rental cars. Apperson was arrested that day, but Pickard evaded arrest until Nov. 7, the DEA said in court records.

DEA agents have searched two San Francisco addresses associated with Pickard, and on Nov. 7 searched Apperson's Mountain View home, where they seized computers and CD-ROMS that they suspect contain evidence of the LSD operation.

Pickard and Apperson are longtime clandestine chemists, according to the affidavit. In 1988, Pickard was arrested by Mountain View police for making LSD, but the charge was dropped because he had been an informant for both the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and the DEA, it says.

Apperson has no criminal history, the affidavit says.

On Nov. 18, the DEA issued a press release warning neighbors that agents in blue full-body protective suits would return to the silo to dismantle the lab, "so they wouldn't be alarmed by the appearance of the guys in the suits."

People who lived near the silo told the Topeka Capital-Journal they had been suspicious of late-night activity at the former military site.

"They were acting strange, but I figured they came from different parts," said Rod Etienne.
Drug law enforcement officials have surmised that LSD chemists and top echelon traffickers form an insider's fraternity of sorts. They successfully have remained at large because there are so few of them. Their exclusivity is not surprising given that LSD synthesis is a difficult process to master. Although cooks need not be formally trained chemists, they must adhere to precise and complex production procedures. In instances where the cook is not a chemist, the production recipe most likely was passed on by personal instruction from a formally trained chemist. Further supporting the premise that most LSD manufacture is the work of a small fraternity of chemists, virtually all the LSD seized during the 1980's was of consistently high purity and sold in relatively uniform dosages of 20 to 80 micrograms.

[Nochowderforyou]

It is a rare thing around here these days, and the stuff that is being produced, is weak.

I did it, probably for the last time, about 1yr ago today. I got it from my regular herb connect, and he said he got it from an older person who lives alone in the NorthWest Territories. He said he is a scientest, who can make really, "bad" acid, as he calls it, "confusion" acid, or he can make really mellow acid that is of low quality (which I got)

So...I don't really know who is making it, but I know finding as good hit that is suppose to do its thing, is non-existent as of now. All of the old-timers are long gone from the 60's and 70's, and after that HUGE acid bust in the States in the 90's, it seems no one really had the interest to pick it up again and keep it going. The people who make it now don't have the science down 100%.

When I did it last year, it took me 3 hits to get a visual. I use to do shit in 92 and 93 where 1 hit would have me seeing things for 16hrs, easily. The people who make it know, do a half-assed job, OR, can't get the proper materials/equipt. to produce it.

Where though? Who knows for sure, but not around here. People don't have the know-how or the patience to make it.

[dopesmoker]

Up here acid is strong as hell. half a hit of acid gets big drug users tripping balls for 12 hours. but i have no clue where, or how its made.

[hihigh]

yeah wow this is interesting it's like a mystery =O

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Up here acid is strong as hell. half a hit of acid gets big drug users tripping balls for 12 hours. but i have no clue where, or how its made.

Look into it a bit, I'd want to know... or just ship some out to the UK, lol