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Leonard Pickard on Making LSD and the Brotherhood of Underground Chemists

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The Challenge of Setting Up an Underground Laboratory

The challenge is what's surprisingly easy? What's surprisingly difficult? Well that's, of course, say, a very, a deep question you're asking me about what is required to establish a clandestine laboratory. Given those caviots to establish an underground laboratory, and i wouldn't do this at home. The difficulty arises not so much in the conversion of, say, lycurgic acid to lus d, but in scaling up from a few milligrams to hundreds of grams or kilograms. That requires highly special equipment and practicesand some of those practices are not simply technical. Those that braved this assembly first collected a small handful of the fateful inexperience that had spent their

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