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William Leonard Pickard was born on 21 October, 1945 in DeKalb County, Georgia, is an American convicted felon. Discover William Leonard Pickard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
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William Leonard Pickard (born October 21, 1945) is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) manufacturing case in history.
It is reported by LSD historian Mark McCloud that Pickard worked with a group of LSD traffickers, known as the Clear Light System, in the 1960s.
In 1971, he got a job as a research manager at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, a job he held until 1974.
From then on, his academic resume begins a 20-year gap.
Pickard is said to have contributed to LSD chemist Nicholas Sand's legal fund following Sand's arrest in 1972.
Pickard also reportedly had a background manufacturing the drug MDA.
In December 1988, a neighbor reported a strange chemical odor coming from an architectural shop at a Mountain View, California, industrial park.
Federal agents arrived to find 200,000 doses of LSD and Pickard inside.
Pickard was charged with manufacturing LSD and served five years in prison.
His first arrest for manufacturing LSD came on December 28, 1988, in Mountain View, California.
The laboratory was contained inside a trailer that had been moved into a warehouse.
It contained state-of-the-art equipment, including a roto-evaporator, heating mantles and a pill press.
He was producing kilogram quantities of LSD and putting them onto windowpane (gel), Microdot (tablet), and blotter forms (blotter paper).
He spent time in prison for this and became a Buddhist while inside.
Pickard had laboratories in a number of different locations.
Pickard never liked to stay at one location more than two years so as not to draw attention to himself.
By 1994, Pickard had enrolled at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
There, he focused on drug abuse in the former Soviet Union, where he theorized that the booming black market and many unemployed chemists could lead to a flood of the drug market.
It is not publicly known where Pickard initially produced LSD.
In early 1996, the lab was located in Oregon; it was subsequently moved to Aspen, Colorado, in late 1996.
From September 1997 to September 1999, the laboratory was located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He liked the Santa Fe location for a number of reasons; his overhead costs were lower and the precursor source was closer.
He also liked the fact that there was virtually no humidity, which can affect the production of LSD.
All of the laboratories are alleged to have produced a kilogram of LSD approximately every five weeks.
It is rumored that Pickard and Skinner were introduced to each other in a somewhat formal gathering of various LSD dealers and chemists.
The meeting is said to have taken place in the former home of Jerry and Carolyn Garcia (Mountain Girl), where Skinner was allegedly then living.
One of his main customers was a man named "Petaluma Al" from Petaluma, California.
Pickard would always arrange for the produced LSD to be transported to the Denver, Colorado, or Boulder, Colorado, area to be mailed or picked up so that Petaluma Al would never know where the laboratory was located.
Most of Petaluma Al's customers were overseas in Europe, which meant that in addition to millions of dollars in United States currency, Pickard also handled millions in Dutch guilders and Canadian bank notes.
In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car.
The laboratory had been stored near a renovated Atlas-E missile silo near Wamego, Kansas.
Gordon Todd Skinner, one of the men intimately involved in the case but not charged due to his cooperation, owned the property where the laboratory equipment was stored.
He preferred to deal in ƒ1,000 notes or Canadian $1,000 notes (discontinued since 2000 in Canada) because it meant less bulk cash to have on hand.
He required his distributors to convert all lower currencies into $50 or $100 notes at the least so as not to cause problems.
On July 27, 2020, Pickard was granted compassionate release from federal prison 20 years into his sentence.
Prior to his arrest, Pickard was deputy director of the Drug Policy Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He came from a well-to-do family; his father was a lawyer and his stepmother was a fungal disease expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In high school, he was an honors student, played basketball, and was named "most intellectual".
He earned a scholarship to Princeton University, but dropped out after one term, instead preferring to hang out at Greenwich Village jazz clubs.