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January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011 was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade’s counterculture.
Between 1965 and 1967 he produced in California over one million doses of his exceptional long-acting (LA) LSD called “Owsley acid”. He was also the sound engineer of the Grateful Dead. That’s one of the reasons why so many pop and rock songs talk about “LA” and “California dreaming”. Don’t think that “LA” always means Los Angeles!
“I never set out to change the world,” he rasps in recalling his early manufacture of LSD. “I only set out to make sure I was taking something (that) I knew what it was. And it’s hard to make a little. And my friends all wanted to know what they were taking, too. Of course, my friends expanded very rapidly.” By conservative estimates, Bear Research Group made more than 1.25 million doses of LSD between 1965 and 1967, essentially seeding the entire modern psychedelic movement.
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