His methods of being careful went to another level. With the kind of notoriety Stanley was garnering he knew he was on a list somewhere. I remember figuring out God then being unable to tie my shoes. Interesting that it’s called “tripping.” Bob Weir spoke of taking acid every day for long periods and members of the Grateful Dead’s road crew, like Big Steve Parish, have talked of being high while loading in and out. I cannot imagine tripping every day for three weeks. I have soared through a few acid trips and thoroughly enjoyed the experiences. The Beatles spent three weeks tripping on the stuff before they filmed Magical Mystery Tour. Stanley sent the cameraman home with a telephoto lens packed with tabs of acid. Lennon hired a cameraman to film the festival but his main task was to smuggle Monterey Purple back to the Walrus. He decided to go directly to Stanley and get a lifetime supply. John Lennon wanted some for his own creative use. ![]() I took some of his at Monterey and I never touched a drug again for 18 years. He had previously experienced European acid, which came out of pharmaceutical company Sandoz and was pretty well regulated. Pete Townsend of the Who recalls taking a 250 mg tab. He produced an estimated 100,000 tabs of Monterey Purple, then brought them to the festival and began handing them out. Still, even 400,000 doses at an average of $3 a dose would be a substantial amount of cash.Īlso, in early 1967 Stanley was approached by his friend “Mama Cass” Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas to make a special batch of acid for the now famous Monterey Pop Festival. Stanley claimed he had given away half of the doses in order to keep the price down and be able to sell easily. Since 1965 he and Melissa Cargill had distributed an estimated 800,000 doses of high quality acid around Berkeley. He lived in Australia until his death in a car accident near his home in northern Queensland.By accounts, in early 1967 Owsley “Bear” Stanley (click on the links for Part One and Part Two of this series) had stashed away $225,000 in a safe deposit box at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, $320,000 in various accounts around San Francisco, and an unspecified amount at a bank in London. Owsley Stanley went on to do more sound work for the Grateful Dead after he was released from prison. The same year, he officially shortened his name to "Owsley Stanley". In 1967, Owsley's lab was raided and he was eventually sentenced to three years in prison. ![]() Owsley Stanley's total production has been estimated to be around 460 grams of LSD. He produced a few grams of LSD in Los Angeles in 1965, more than that in Point Richmond in 1966, and the rest in Denver in 1967. Most of his LSD was produced in large batches and either pressed into tablets or encapsulated. Another popular run included "Monterey Purple" (14,000 doses). Owsley's best-known acid was "White Lightning" (300,000 doses) made in 1966-1967. Owsley soon hooked up with Tim Scully and together they continued to produce LSD as well as STP (DOM). ![]() Through them he also met the Grateful Dead in 1966 and began supporting them both financially and as a sound man. Once finished, he returned to the bay area where he supplied LSD to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters for their acid tests. He used his methedrine proceeds to buy bulk lysergic acid and produced somewhere between 300,000 and 10 million doses of LSD. Police eventually raided his lab in 1965 but found only precursors. Berkeley where he tried his first psychoactive and decided to produce methedrine. He served 18 months in the Air Force during the 1950s. While born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, he is widely known by simply Owsley or the nickname "Bear". Owsley Stanley was the first underground chemist to mass produce high-quality LSD in the 1960s.
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