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

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In 1973, the producers had a disagreement with the distributors (concerning the price and profit margin of the product, which Kemp wanted to maintain as low as possible) and production ceased for a time. Kemp and Solomon set about organising another distribution network and recommenced LSD production in west Wales. In the 1970s it's estimated that around 60% of the world's LSD came from one place: Wales. This is the story of the Microdot Gang - a ragtag group of chemists, dealers, businessmen and hippy dreamers. They believed that acid had the power to save 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 Richard Schultes published the first detailed description of the genus Virola as well as its preparation and use among Colombian Indians. Virola contains DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. a b c Fielding, Leaf (2011). To Live Outside the Law: Caught by Operation Julie, Britain's Biggest Ever Drugs Bust. Serpent's Tail.Matthew Rhys buys Operation Julie film rights". BBC News. 3 December 2010 . Retrieved 3 December 2010.

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He and David Solomon recruited two others, Henry Todd and Leaf Fielding, to convert the LSD into tablet form and handle the distribution. They were educated people who were either chemists, doctors, accountants and had used their extreme talents for a criminal enterprise.

During the drive, The Truth asks Carl to make a few seemingly random stops to monitor the activities of some mysterious vans. One of the stops he asks Carl to make is directly in front of San Fierro Medical Center, where The Truth admonishes the other passengers to not think of what is passing through their eyes, as a van emerges from the medical center's parking lot. Without explanation, The Truth urges Carl on to the next stop. Later, he makes another stop in front of the San Fierro Police Headquarters in Downtown San Fierro, as the same van passes again. Kendl: Look, Carl, this place is gonna get on its feet, and when it does, we are gonna have money. If you want to make something of yourself, you gotta let your money work for you. Their attention turned to another local cottage, Esgairwen, which was owned by friends of Richard Kemp and Christine Bott. Like her, they were both doctors. The police kept watch on the house – it was being prepared for active service as an LSD laboratory. The first conferences focusing on LSD and mescaline took place in Atlantic City and Princeton, N.J.

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The scientist confirmed in a great moment of joy that there was pure LSD in all our samples – including the frog and the mole,” Dai recalled. Yet as far as former Detective Inspector Dai Rees – one of the principal Welsh officers in Operation Julie – was concerned, LSD created more problems than it solved. Once I’d met him a few times I realized he had a trove of stories about himself and others and the scene generally and, more importantly, he loved to tell them. I also realized that Smiles’ experiences and stories represented, in macrocosm, the lives and experiences of many people in the drug culture of the Sixties and Seventies and that readers would closely identify with his experiences and adventures. British law enforcement has typically regarded “Operation Julie” as an enormously successful sting operation that effectively curtailed the production of Microdot LSD. There have been nine books written about Operation Julie and many of them were written by detectives who participated in the historic investigation. Although the story of Operation Julie has often been dominated by law enforcement’s narrative of moral self-congratulation (“we took acid off the streets”), alternative histories of the Microdot era are now beginning to emerge.Police discovered 600,000 microdots buried in a field near Reading and 120 grams of LSD crystals – enough to produce 1.2 million microdots – beneath a compost heap near Christine Botts’ potato patch Smiles had lived under the threat of arrest and imprisonment for so long in the Seventies and for very serious drug dealing offenses that I think he just accepted those risks as being part and parcel of a dealer’s life. And when he was dealing in London in the Eighties, it was relatively small amounts of hash, being dealt in the heart of London’s drug dealing area where it was “normal” and the police largely ignored it. Smiles only dealt hash then, at a time when London was awash with cheap heroin and coke. So I think the police had far bigger fish to fry than an aging hippie selling hash. Because Smiles never saw drug use or dealing as “wrong” he didn’t have the built-in shame/guilt that some criminals have and which can increase their sense of risk. Operation Julie is mentioned in the book Undoctored by Adam Kay due to his grandparents' house being used for surveillance during the operation. [15]