Related:<p><i>LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947157">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947157</a> - July 2020 (375 comments)<p><i>The "Acid King," Serving Life Without Parole</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211097">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211097</a> - Aug 2016 (25 comments)<p>Other (more loosely) related threads:<p><i>The LSD Museum (2021)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673288">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673288</a> - July 2023 (25 comments)<p><i>Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD (2011)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651502">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651502</a> - Aug 2022 (57 comments)<p><i>Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207957">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207957</a> - April 2017 (82 comments)<p><i>Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395737">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395737</a> - Aug 2016 (211 comments)
Prior to the LLM age, I found it very difficult to program while on LSD or psychedelics. I just could not sustain the logical inference needed to keep track.<p>However, using a voice dictation program combined with a usb foot pedal and cursor, I have overcome this impasse in an interesting way.<p>What was once the Ballmer peak, I should perhaps rename the Pickard Pinnacle. What a time 2B alive.
I had the pleasure of recently meeting Leonard and spending a couple weeks together. What a unique and interesting person. I think he’s the smartest person I’ve ever met. His stories are captivating. Could spend a very long time chatting with him.
He was released in 2020: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard</a>
I'm not sure where they get the idea that 20mics is a "dose". Microdose perhaps, but I've always been under the impression a modern "dose" of acid is 100mics, so the premise that they're less than in the 60s etc. still holds.
According to this he predicted the the fentanyl epidemic in the 90s: <a href="https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/people/affiliated-researchers/william-leonard-pickard/" rel="nofollow">https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/people/affiliated-researc...</a>
I think people might under appreciate how easy LSD was to get in the US in the 90s and early 2000s.<p>I was living in a fairly boring suburb, and was a complete nerd and had access to as much LSD as I wanted at less than $5 a hit when I was in high school in the mid 90s, and it continued to be easy to find well into the early 2000s.