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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: "LSD CAUSES PARANOIA AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER TAKEN IT" -- TIMOTHY LEARY. DENNIS MCDOUGLE IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST
Description: A search for the truth behind the DEA’s life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr.
Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King:” William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and the biggest producer of LSD on the planet—if you believe the DEA.
A narrative for fans of Mich...