So important that they started in Palo ALto because that’s where all the acid was coming from at first. Later, Augustus Stanley Owsley III became the big underground acid manufacturer, kind of the real life breaking bad, but then he got busted, but served only a little time and became the Dead’s head sound man. So a big-time acid manufacture gets arrested, but servers only a short time? That is part of the contention made by David McGowen in his book about Laurel Canyon, that the young people that were children of Military Intel and Clown parents were protected from serving during Viet Nam and never arrested for drug issues, or if they were, served little or no time.
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