A seemingly carefree hippie with a taste for nude yoga, Sand had a troubled childhood - his parents divorced after his father was exposed as a Soviet spy operating within the Manhattan Project - and was enthusiastically on board with solving the world's problems via LSD. Leary also put Scully in touch with another LSD chemist named Nick Sand, who came on board as his streetwise sidekick. Shortly afterward, they made a pilgrimage to see Leary, who introduced them to Scully as potential distributors. They ended up running around the desert throwing away their guns and loudly renouncing violence to an audience of startled Gila monsters.
The producer turned out to have a stash of LSD among his valuables, which the bikers sampled about a week later in Joshua Tree National Park. Nicholas Darinzo/Wikimedia Commons This is either a diagram explaining the plot or a drawing of a cute kitten.Īround the same time, a Hollywood producer was robbed at gunpoint by a heroin-addicted biker gang led by a guy called John Griggs. But how did a Harvard-educated researcher end up dominating the LSD market from a luxury bunker in small-town Kansas? To understand that, you have to understand the history of LSD in America, a tortuous yarn involving a years-long secret plot to get the entire world high. The supposed mastermind was a UCLA professor named William Leonard Pickard, who became the target of a massive manhunt after sprinting off into the woods when agents pulled his van over near the silo. The DEA would allege that the silo was the headquarters of a sophisticated operation which produced up to 90 percent of the LSD in the United States. They also discovered a state-of-the-art laboratory and enough precursor chemicals to produce millions of doses of LSD. Inside the silo, they discovered Italian marble floors, cedar wood closets, a jacuzzi, and $85,000 in stereo equipment.
The locals were probably close to calling in Velma and the gang when the DEA swooped instead. Neighbors saw strange lights and deliveries in the dead of night, while the mysterious inhabitants kept the gates locked and quickly emerged to ward off any trespassers. Back in 2000, residents of Wamego, Kansas started to suspect something odd was going on at the abandoned missile silo next door.
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