give it up for Owsley

I think we should all give our upmost respect To Dr. Owsley for creating one of the most radical chemicals made by man. Cheers to you Dr.

 

god created it, hoffman synthesized it, and owsly produced it.

 

i sent owlsey a nice email a while back
should send him one before he dies
except now hes called bear http://www.thebear.org/

 

Owsley must have been a smart cookie to synthesize LSD w/o proper chemistry background. Granted, precursor chemicals were easier to obtain back in the 60s but the synthesis itself is quite complicated. This guy really lived the life.

 

most likely owsley just familiarised himself with the needed equipment and lab procedure, it takes alot of schooling to learn this entirely, but probably could be done in a few months of trial and error by an intelligent person with the large amounts of precursors he would have had or been able to get. once he found a procedure that worked for him and ended in a good end yeild he would have stuck with that. youd have to ask him to know exactly though, if he wanted to tell you

id love to talk to him personally about his adventures, i hear he lives in australia now i think.

 

Yeah he's an ex-patriot now living in the hinterlands of Australia.

Agreed sadistic, I'd love to hang out with him for a day or so just to soak in his stories. We need a new Owsley to flood the streets with good LSD. Any takers?! lol..

 

we need to find the guy whos willing to take some chances as it is risky businness.

 

he learned how to do synthesize it all on his own, rolling stone had an amazing article on him in one of the anniversary issues that came out over the summer

 

I read rock scully's book living with the dead and early in the book it says that owsley turned his meth cooking skills to lsd. Another part says that when he was making a huge batch cant remember the names but a girl and guy come over to help. he says "they make up 500grams of lsd"

 

Clyde Apperson and Leonard Pickard were the modern day Owsleys. They made more than Owsley ever did, and it took them a while to get caught. Check them out, I have much respect for them.

 

i dont really see how cooking meth teachs you how to "cook" LSD, i mean anyone can cook meth. getting meth is more an extraction process then a total chemical synthesis, not that i have cooked meth before, but i know the process involved. just im so confused by how people would learn anything from cooking meth, "if you can make chocolate chip cookies, you can cook methamphetamine" you need a lab to make LSD where as with meth can be cooked literally anywhere. LSD synthesis involves totally different steps

its not like owsley would have known to cook meth picked up the recipe and made LSD. some chemists can screw up entire batches, yet a meth cook could?? in reality owsley was probably an extremey intelligent person who studied his ass off for a couple months and talked to chemists who could help him with the steps involved, after a few small batches of trial and error, success!!

500 grams of lsd seems like alot, most sources say that one gram of LSD crystal can up to 10,000 hits that means thats upward of 5 million hits. id like to read this book

 

I have mad respect for these two psychedelic chemists! Chances are, I have only ever had their LSD. Too bad they got sloppy and got busted.

 

I remember reading that Owsley used to make amphetamine (not methamphetamine) with his girlfriend. It is later on that he started making LSD. I do agree though, the synthesis of [meth]amphetamine and LSD is totally different so Owsley most likely had to learn from scratch.

 

Apperson and Pickard were arrested with 41.3 kilos of pure LSD. They made 2.2 pounds every 5 weeks.

 

yea iam in fla and remember when i used to get go lsd and spend all day at water parks but now you cant even find anything real ever body wants to rip you off every were you go we have a show down here called live stock 3 days of notthing but partying lsd was everywhere the first 4 year now all fake life suck in fla

 

Man created it...LSD doesnt exist in nature under any form or circumstance. If you wana say God gave man the gift of intelligence, which we utilized to create it, that makes sense, but it's entire man made. And Owsley synthesized it as well, he just wasnt the first one to do it. God did give us mushrooms :-D, and DMT!

There is alot of speculation as to wether or not the stuff Owsley produced was even LSD. Alot of people think that many of the pills that were distributed in the mid to late 60's contained the acid's analog, ALD-52, which was also discovered by Hoffman. Shulgan's little profile on it states that it's almost identical with the exception that it doesn't tend to produce anxiety, which LSD certaintly does even during good trips. Brain waves were examined in the 60's when it was being researched on human subjects, when it was legal, and it was compared to LSD and acid produced waves representing strong feelings of paranoia, while ALD-52 produced waves representing comfort and 'solace'. Obviously LSD is very euphoric, but things do get overwhelming if you're peaking on a heavy dose. "Orange Sunshine" is thought by alot of people to be ALD-52. I was watching as interview with Eric Clapton who was talking about Owsley's acid being handed out at the Monterey Pop Festival, and he said that all of Owsley's acid stood above any other brand of LSD in that it was the so called "no-bad-trip-stuff"...makes since. I would like to get my hands on some and do a subjective experiment :-D

 

Yeah that sucks man...Acid has a price tag on it now. It's not all about the experience anymore with alot of people: it's all about the proverbial dollar sign.
My friend lived in Flordia before he went to college in Maine and said the coke and the beans there are out of this world, but acid is never very potent, and rare as well. The festival you speak of probably had acid brought in from other states. All of our dose comes in through fests.

 

What are beans?

 

beans are ecstasy pills.
you learn something new everyday.

-Tos

 

hehe now im gonna make a liquid form of ecstasy.
then it shall be called BEAN SOUP!