Owsley was quite a critter. Still is, actually.
I was living in New Jersey during that period, so anything that made it out to the East Coast had been handled a lot. But Owsley's products were always distinguished.
I believe he established a quality standard that none since (other than the US Government USP-grade LSD-25) has approached.
Also a standard for chutzpah -- claiming 300,000 doses were for "personal use". Now that's balls.
I had some interaction with some guys from New Jersey back then. They had come down to Houston and were playing the mafia intimidation thing that so many guys try and I helped out a friend by representing Texas muscle, it seems to have worked but for about a month I kept a fake human shaped lump in my bed while I slept on the floor under my window sill with a shotgun. Ahhh, good times.
Owsley is still around? (Weird. I thought of purple Owsley just yesterday.)