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Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and falland rise and fall againof the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the Acid King William Leonard Pickard Pickard was a legitimate genius a follower of Timothy Leary a con artist a womanizer and a believer that LSD would save lives He was a foreign diplomat a Harvard fellow and the biggest producer of LSD on the planetif you believe the DEA
Pickards personal story is set against a fascinating chronicle of the social history of psychedelic drugs from the 1950s on From LSD distribution at UC Berkeley to travelling the world for the State Department Pickards story is one of remarkable geniusthat is until a DEA sting named Operation White Rabbit captured him at an abandoned missile silo in Kansas Pickard the DEA said was responsible for 90 percent of the worlds production of lysergic acid
The DEA announced to the public that they found ninetyone pounds of LSD In reality the haul was seven ounces But nonetheless he is now serving two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole Pickard has become acids bestknown martyr in the process continuing his advocacy and artistic pursuits from jail
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