Rare interview with LSD pioneer Owsley Stanley
Between 1965 and 1967, Augustus Owsley Stanley III AKA the “Bear,” homebrewed an estimated 1.25 million doses of LSD in the San Francisco Bay Area, fueling a revolution in consciousness, music, art, and the counterculture. The recipe came from a copy of the Journal of Organic Chemistry he found in the UC Berkeley library. The Grateful Dead’s first sound engineer, Stanley also pioneered several technologies for live sound. For two decades, Stanley, now 72, has lived off-the-grid in Queensland, Australia. Currently on an extended visit to Bay Area, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joel Selvin caught up with Bear for a very rare interview.
[Via Boing Boing]
